"Why do they put Arabs in military zones and not Jews?" he asks against a backdrop of ripped canvas.
Nor is any relief asked against Mr. Walsh individually; the proceedings against him being strictly in his capacity as a public officer.
In his letters to the Galatians and to the Romans, he asks, against the background of the Pharisees' legalistic piety, how one becomes just before God.
Zeljko Buvac, Klopp's Serbian assistant, attempted to cajole improvement from the touchline but that was not a straightforward ask against deep, unambitious opponents.
And if you're moved to ask against whom, lo these 30 years since Woodstock, you're clearly too hung up for this trip.
For Indonesians, questions about the nation's future are asked against a backdrop of fears that the country would not even survive as a nation.
But he did not rule, as the government asked, against less troubling contracts that Microsoft wrote with other partners to discourage their customers from using Netscape's browser.
"If we could start again, what kind of world would we build?" the narrator asked, against footage of hills dense with Sitka spruce.
Stauffenberg set the noblest of moral examples, but what makes "Valkyrie" more depressing than exciting is that it forces you to ask, against your judgment, what, exactly, he achieved.
Pochettino is expecting a much tougher ask against Asteras than that 5-1 win at White Hart Lane, with the Greek club preparing for one of the biggest matches in their history.
