Sentence examples for avoiding questioning from inspiring English sources

In fact, teacher Sara tends to use Modality to soften her many of her utterances, as in Example 7 (Table 6) below where she is avoiding questioning Cristiano too intrusively: Table 6 Example 7 1 SC What sort of house are you making, Cristiano? 2 Cn My one has got something on there.

Noam and his wife Aviva have avoided questioning their son too closely about his captivity.

B.J.P. leaders say Mr. Singh is trying to avoid questioning from such a committee about whether his office failed to investigate complaints about corruption in the telecom ministry.

Among the Iraqis who American intelligence officials believe have taken refuge in Syria in recent months are scientists trying to avoid questioning by United Nations weapons inspectors.

It has emerged in the last few days that Silva is soon to return to Sri Lanka, raising fears that he may avoid questioning.

But, having called on Canseco to give up his 1988 American League Most Valuable Player award, and noting the evidence against Barry Bonds, Schilling acknowledged he could not avoid questioning Clemens's accomplishments.

They applauded as he approached the stage and gave him a standing ovation as he walked off and slipped out a back door to avoid questioning by a small group of reporters.

Among Iraqis who have taken refuge in Syria in recent weeks and months are weapons scientists who fled Iraq to avoid questioning by United Nations inspectors and capture by American forces, an American intelligence official said.

In fact, the city in recent years has, as part of its contract negotiations with the police unions, all but done away with the provision that allowed officers accused of misconduct to avoid questioning by superiors for two days.

In a 2006 paper about detector dogs, Richard Myers, a law professor at the University of North Carolina, summarized the lazy rhetoric that courts often use to avoid questioning supposedly tried-and-true methodologies: "The use of is well-settled in the law of this [state/circuit] and we need not revisit it here".

"How will employers react to this?" As Pentagon officials continued to weigh a Reserve call-up, White House officials today pressed for more vigorous and fast-paced inspections of Iraq but carefully avoided questioning the performance of the small inspection team that has been in Iraq for a week.