Sentence examples for call the question from inspiring English sources

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call the question

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To end a period of debate on an issue by requiring a decision to be made with respect to that issue.

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It's time we call the question".

This is what Russians often call the "question of questions".

For Mr. Dean, it is too soon to call the question.

"We don't want to call the question and say this one does one thing, this one does another," said Eric E. Schmidt, Google's chief executive.

Fortunately, the State Senate's Democratic minority leader, Martin Connor, plans to call the question next week by offering legislation to ensure an open ballot in 2004.

A woman's ability to be heard isn't just a matter of 'leaning in.' There is no way to safely call the question about whether a woman's opinion is being discounted.

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By phone, Ms. Green later called the question "undermining".

Embryonic stem cell research has called the question for them.

Bachmann called the question "insulting" on the air, and viewers had reacted negatively to it.

The definitive answer to what Burana calls "the question on everyone's lips" -- why strip?

It is called the question of structural stability.

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