Sentence examples for answer a hypothetical from inspiring English sources

Never answer a hypothetical question.

It's one thing to refuse to answer a hypothetical question about whether there is any circumstance under which you might ever use nuclear weapons against Iran.

On Tuesday he said he had "interpreted the question wrong" and also said he would not answer a "hypothetical" because it would be a "disservice" to members of the military.

Here is Matthews' memory: [The Mayor] then said: "Judge, I was wondering if you could answer a hypothetical question that has nothing to do with any case pending before you, as I understand that would not be proper".

Struggling to answer a hypothetical question, Senator John McCain said today that if his teenage daughter became pregnant, she would have the "final decision" on whether to have an abortion.

ASKED on October 11th how he might have handled the financial crisis of 2008 differently, Mitt Romney, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, refused to answer "a hypothetical".

On Friday, Jeter maintained he was merely answering a hypothetical question.

He failed to choose Mr. Dinkins as his preferred choice in answering a hypothetical question about his choice among the city's previous three mayors.

At the first Supreme Court argument in March, a government lawyer, answering a hypothetical question, said the government could also make it a crime to distribute books advocating the election or defeat of political candidates so long as they were paid for by corporations and not their political action committees.

Mr. Corzine, who supports no such restrictions, answered a hypothetical question by saying that if he had a pregnant 14-year-old daughter contemplating an abortion, "Our family would have been open and we would have related to each other enough that we would have that kind of discussion".

A campus Web site about the team answers a hypothetical question, "Can't you just make people leave campus if they are a problem?" in this way: "When people remain part of the Virginia Tech community, on-campus resources are available to them, and campus administrators are in contact with them to provide support they might not have if they were removed".