Sentence examples similar to an instance of a question from inspiring English sources

Or, one can direct one's question to someone else, in which case we have an instance of a "directed question (Anfrage)".

Levitt is happiest grappling with questions that have the potential to overturn the "conventional wisdom". "Where did all the criminals go?" proved to be the perfect instance of such a question.

It is a specific instance of a bigger question: Is doing business with the island the only way to stop post-Castro Cuba from developing commercial and political relationships that the U.S. considers unwelcome?

The privacy debate prompted by the case may thus be an instance of the right answer to the wrong question.

As Prichard was to put it: "In mathematics we have, without real possibility of question, an instance of knowledge; we are certain, we know" (Prichard 1919, 302).

He did, for instance, respond to a question about the demands of football on his family — specifically, spending time with his newborn daughter — without objection.

The case of the most general kind, masses of matter, is a particularly important instance of this question.

This middle group usually needs time to resolve, with correspondence and research: a point of science, for instance, a question of who said what in an interview, a disputed point from colonial history, a complaint about calculations for anything from civil-service pensions to an engineering project.

Mr. Elleithee said yesterday that this second instance was not an example of a planted question.

In the first instance, it is a question of power.

Rebecca Goldstein's poignant brief life of Spinoza seems free of any ambivalence toward him, perhaps because she studies him as a melancholy instance of the increasingly vexed question of Jewish identity.