Defense lawyers, for the most part, asked only a few respectful questions of the witnesses in cross-examination.
Despite a friendly meeting with Mr. Blair, respectful question-and-answer sessions with British executives and an audience with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle, Mr. Putin accomplished his task only partly.
There's an awful lot of silence around faith, but we have to ask respectful questions about it because it shapes the world in very profound ways.
The journalists posed respectful questions.
She prepares diligently and asks probing, respectful questions.
"Moral high ground, peaceful engagement, asking respectful questions of opponents.
During the Q. & A., people thanked both men, and asked thoughtful, respectful questions.
We'd asked some very respectful questions and we all got up to leave.
The agency's own staff played the role of the press corps, posing unusually respectful questions for the deputy administrator, Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson Jr., retired.
The respectful questions put to Mrs. Bush were written on cards, and sent up to the lectern from press club members who had paid to hear her as a speaker scheduled before the terrorist attacks.
Would a huge contingent of the world's artistic press come for the occasion – and would they content themselves by asking respectful questions, and even applauding, in spite of the fact that the whole project came in at €866m, overdue and over budget, most of it paid for by the city itself?
