Sentence examples for barbed questions from inspiring English sources

When lawmakers tugged at those scarves, they found underneath not just Muslims demanding the freedom of religious expression, but barbed questions about citizenship.

Never more so than when, as the London correspondent of the leftwing French daily L'Humanité, he was firing barbed questions at prime minister Margaret Thatcher during European summit press conferences.

In the oral argument of that case, he tossed a series of barbed questions at the lawyers defending the law, all aimed at proving that the Voting Rights Act represented a kind of legal smallpox vaccine — a cure for a disease that no longer exists.

In a long list of barbed questions, local campaigners Southwark Notes accuse the council of being "compliant" with the desires of the new creatives, and the mere mention of Brixton Village will be an early red flag, when most are keen to avoid the widespread gentrification seen in that "cultural hub".

Sprinkled through its pages are quotes on civic involvement from Abraham Lincoln, Plato and Pablo Picasso, together with barbed questions along the lines of: "What was Mayor Juan Noguez, Vice Mayor Ofelia Hernandez and council member Mario Gomez hiding from the public?" Though the site regularly takes public officials to task, the founder has refused to make his own identity public.

The reality was demonstrated in a Brisbane press conference this week when an Australian media interrogator asked a barbed question of wing Lachie Turner.

Apart from one slightly barbed question about the extent to which the supposedly consultative policy commission had been pre-empted by the leader's speeches, there was near-euphoria.

Beginning in 1968, as one of the first hosts of the enduringly popular news show, he circled the globe, displaying his charm and wit and asking sometimes barbed, always penetrating questions of kings and presidents, business magnates and bureaucrats, entertainers and cultural personalities.

There is a lot of barbed wire surrounding that question.

I was once told as a kid that all hurricanes were female because women were so destructive; a barbed comment I never questioned because at the time I already sensed some things were easier if you were a boy.

The fight was to go on, with some decisions in their favour, some against, for 16 years, during which time a large part of the roaring barbed-wire industry's profits went into the pockets of lawyers.Complicating all the patent rows was the question of whether barbed wire was an invention that is, an act of genius at all.