Sentence examples for abandon the question from inspiring English sources

Turing proposed that we abandon the question "Could a computer think?" as hopelessly vague, replacing it with the question "Could a computer pass the Turing test?".

You cannot spend 2,000 years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we're not interested in it anymore.

But do not abandon the question or give a wrong answer.

It proved a useful tactic: Hamilton was so embarrassed by Jackson's demand that he ended up abandoning the question altogether.

The new catechism abandoned the question-and-answer form and used modern language in its prescriptions on faith, the sacraments, sin, and prayer.

As early as 1938, he urged Americans to abandon "the hackneyed question of how far Bolshevism has changed Russia and turn our attention to the question of how far Russia has changed Bolshevism" — a question he would turn over and over for the next half century.

Mr. Gingrich has also signaled that he is not ready to abandon the broader questions about Mr. Romney's role at Bain Capital, a private equity firm.

Let's abandon the fundamentally frothy question of who is wearing a ring.

Where are we going?" At the start, Wilson notes that religion is no help at all — "mythmaking could never discover the origin and meaning of humanity" — and contemporary philosophy is also irrelevant, having "long ago abandoned the foundational questions about human existence".

But obviously the question remains: will people abandon the idea of carrying around stacks of business cards in place of this new little Clickey?

Now the question is: will we abandon the dream?