Sentence examples for asked it of from inspiring English sources

We expect female CEOs to do something that we would think is laughable if we asked it of male CEOs.

We asked it of Friends (well, I did) and Sex and the City and Seinfeld.

He greeted a guest by holding out two Italian herbal lozenges and exclaiming, gruffly, "How's your father?" This query later proved less startling than it at first seemed; he asked it of others, none of whom, of course, asked it of him.

This is a day to respect the memory of 60 years ago and, perhaps, to wonder what we might rise to if only we asked it of ourselves.

He said he would consider a new mandate only if the political parties asked it of him; as a senator for life, he has no need to run for election.

Fiorina batted off suggestions she was pitching for the vice-presidential role, telling host Chris Wallace she would answer that question when he asked it of the other, male candidates.

Why ask it of a novelist?

Now Europe is asking that question of Greece, and Greeks are asking it of themselves.

— ask me the question on this blog and I will ask it of the person concerned.

"What are you saving it for?" Balanchine famously asked his dancers; and I ask it of the San Francisco Ballet today.

But no one who knows anything about him asks it of American crime writer James Ellroy.