Sentence examples for Compound questions from inspiring English sources

But McNamee stood his ground, asking Hardin to break down compound questions as well as repeat them several times.

"I help," he says, "by saying that our questions must be, as far as possible, framed using simple sentences". He doesn't care if they sound unsophisticated, "because complex sentences and compound questions bring a set of conditionalities"—embedded assumptions, in other words, that constrain the response before anyone has even begun to think about it.

Should I be on the look-out for everyone?" "That's a compound question and the answers are yes, no and maybe," Dr. Phil responds.

Of course, embedded within the Hawking equation is a deeper question, actually a compound question -- What ignited the cosmic order and what propels it onward?

The reports only compounded questions about Detective Botha's work on the Pistorius case.

The Libby letter compounded questions already raised by an incident just three months before Secretary Gates announced the Chairman's retirement.

No Americans were killed in the raid, but the attackers' rapid penetration of the compound raised questions about how vulnerable American diplomatic sites may be even after a concerted campaign in recent years to make them more secure.

Police security camera footage, released late on Friday, showed the gunmen approaching two policemen at the gate from within the compound - raising questions about how their weapons were smuggled onto the site.

In this environment, a sudden, large increase in the reported pension obligations of companies with cash-balance plans would compound the questions, making analysts wonder whether arcane actuarial methods had been making the cash-balance model look better at cutting costs than it really was.

A biological wrinkle further compounds those questions.

The question of authorship has now compounded those questions.