Sentence examples for about whether to speak from inspiring English sources

"He really agonized about whether to speak out or not," she said.

She said frontline police officers were receiving calls from the members of the public about the presence of young people and were being faced with a decision about whether to speak to them, perhaps antagonising them by asking them what they are up to or to be quiet or even to move on.

Mr Jones, MP for Durham North, said he had "thought very long and hard" about whether to speak publicly about his mental health problems.

The decision about whether to speak up is particular and personal.

After the incident, and despite doubts over whether to speak out about it, Rees decided to vent his anger on Twitter, writing: "To the bigot who complained about my bf & I holdin hands & the security guard at @sainsburys who felt the need to 'talk' to us outside [middle finger emoji]." Rees's subsequent comments suggest he does not necessarily blame the security guard for the situation.

Chemical warfare — which appeared to begin with small-scale attacks this year and culminated in the sarin gas attack in August that killed hundreds of Syrians — made that difficult situation even more complex, posing ethical questions about whether, and how, to speak up.

There has always been a professional tension in climate science about whether or not to speak out, and how.

Scientists still have a way to go before they can calculate just how that inflating speck popped into being; still, they are close enough that various competing theories have set off a debate about whether it is proper to speak of a beginning of cosmic time, or whether the expression has no meaning.

Students could see racial difference at work, but were not prepared to speak about, whether it was reacting to the sense of collective guilt and trauma, or because a culture of civility obfuscated the possibility of dialogue, or their own prudence in terms of their careers meant being blind about race.

By then, the mystery about whether Rowan was, so to speak, an authentic plagiarist had been solved.

At the same time, the violence sparked a debate within the community about whether Muslim leaders need to speak out more forcefully against homophobic ideologies.