They shut themselves up thus in a sort of contradiction, for, if one admits the limitless character of the German claims, and they do admit it, there is no hope for the moment of ending the situation by settling the Danzig question, and thus no advantage in compromising themselves over it.
For example, the view that voluntary euthanasia is morally permissible in certain circumstances does not by itself settle the question of whether euthanasia should be legalized.
The concept of discrimination cannot, by itself, settle the question, because the concept only tells us that it is properly applied to the imposition of wrongful disadvantages on account of salient group membership.
This is a reasonably inexpensive effort by me to settle the question" of whether anyone traveled to Maine to cast a fraudulent vote.
David Miliband tonight issued a lukewarm vote of confidence in the prime minister after two former cabinet colleagues called for a secret ballot by Labour MPs to settle the question of his leadership "once and for all".
"You Never Die Twice," a new report by Jennifer Gibson of Reprieve, a British-based human rights organization, settles the question quickly by showing that some men on the White House "kill list" of terror suspects to be taken out have "'died' as many as seven times".
Beijing, however, has consistently asserted its right to settle the question by force.
The Insular Cases eventually settled the question by holding that the newly acquired territories belonged to, but were not a part of, the United States.
There remained a controversy between this Nation and Spain over this western boundary and the Treaty of 1819 settled the question by the only authority that could establish a boundary with a foreign government.
A virtual-museum affair in a gallery, curated by Picasso's biographer John Richardson, settled the question of whether we can discount works of the artist's old age.
