Sentence examples for confront the central question from inspiring English sources

I leave you to decide for yourselves, but particularly galling is Judge Farris' utter failure to confront the central question in the case -- i.e., whether in shifting copyright from an opt-in to an opt-out system, Congress shifted the traditional contours of copyright.

With them she pieces together who her mother is and comes to enough clarity about herself finally to confront the central question of her existence: not how she became human but, more fundamentally, what makes a living being human and is there any hope for her to become so?

That seems certain to pose early on the central question that confronts American commanders as they start the plan: will the Maliki government agree to operations aimed at Shiite extremists, or resist them and push for the focus to be laid on Sunni extremists attacking Shiite areas?

That is the central question the Republicans will have to confront once this campaign is over and the denial on the right as evidenced by the widespread shoot-the-messenger reaction to Powell's break from the party–subsides.

WASHINGTON — The scheduled meeting Tuesday of the Federal Reserve's policy-making committee is unlikely to resolve the foremost question confronting the central bank: What happens next?

FRANK: Well it's the central question.

How could he, is the central question?

It had become the central question there.

This is the central question.

The central question — what happened?

The central question will be punishingly direct.