It examines actual problems and asks straightforward questions about how people should or should not live.
Large-scale polling is not as simple as calling a few people and asking straightforward questions.
Marco Rubio made her sound like a retiree who had nowhere to look but back, thanking her for her service, asking straightforward questions, and more or less letting her talk.
I would ask straightforward questions about capital punishment, religion, abortion, or gun control, then place them on the scale ranging from weak liberals to card-carrying conservatives.
"I must seek the truth and I must ask straightforward and tough questions, and in my heart I know if that woman is telling the truth it will be almost unfair to her.
An ICM poll, conducted at the beginning of this month for the TaxPayers' Alliance, a lobbying group, asked the straightforward question whether taxes should go up or down.
One week in the advice column of Femina, the women's magazine supplement of a popular weekly newspaper, Anne B. from Alsace asked a straightforward question: "Should I leave my husband?" "Married for 30 years, we haven't had sex for five years," she explained.
Observers from across the political spectrum have agreed that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper either misled Congress or lied outright when asked a straightforward question by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore). in a March 2013 Senate hearing.
Google has updated Chrome in build 27 to include conversational voice search, a feature it demoed on stage at Google I/O this year that allows you to search by voice, but also transcribes your queries in real time and lets you use natural language, asking Google straightforward questions and getting straightforward answers, both read back to you by dictation and in actual Google search results.
At the moment, even asking fairly straightforward questions requires a biologist to spend hours in front of a screen, harvesting databases and finding the tools needed to gather evidence.
