Sentence examples for central inquiry from inspiring English sources

The central inquiry of psychophysics pertains to the search for a lawful, quantitative relation between stimulus and sensation for the range of stimuli between these limits.

"He had come to believe in ascent as a male obligation," Giardina explains, setting up the conceit that will prompt the novel's central inquiry: Can the Italian-American Palumbos rise above their social station?

Though "[n]o one of these factors is determinative," id. at 752, the hiring party's control "is the central inquiry here". JustMed, Inc. v. Byce, 600 F.3d 1118, 1125 (9th Cir. 2010).

These laws were urged by feminist reformers in the 1970's because until that time the central inquiry in rape cases was whether the accuser was a tramp who, essentially, "asked for it".

Taking my cue from Chris Hedges' 2003 book, War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, and my title from Edwin Starr's soulful Vietnam protest song, I foregrounded questions of meaning and mediation as the central inquiry of our course: How and why do we make meaning in war?

Understanding the role of foreign aid in poverty alleviation is one of the central inquiries for development economics.

By 1982, when Ridsdale was moved out of the town of Mortlake, Pell was a member of the committee, and a central question of the inquiry has become whether Pell knew Ridsdale was being moved out of Mortlake because he had abused children there.

The exact cause is a central question the multiple inquiries will tackle.

The central intellectual inquiry of the science of management is simply this: What works?

Unfortunately, in spite of the central role of inquiry in the national and state science standards, inquiry-based instruction is rarely implemented in secondary classrooms (Weiss et al., 1994; Bybee, 1997; Hudson et al., 2002; Smith et al., 2002; Capps et al., 2012).

But that possibility did not appear to be central to the inquiry.