The Japanese authorities, at the request of their French counterparts, questioned Mr. Takeda about those payments in 2017 but have taken no action since.
I prefer the film of Shawshank to its written counterpart, no question.
Some of the first words spoken by Barack Obama to Raúl Castro after the leaders met in the Palace of the Revolution on Monday were unexpected: "we had a great dinner". (The US president was answering his Cuban counterpart's question about how he liked Havana so far). My colleague Lisa O'Carroll has trekked to the restaurant where the Obamas dined on Sunday night, and met its owner there.
And in a letter about the talks to his Democratic counterpart, Mr. Fitzgerald questioned his colleague's "grasp of reality".
Set against statistics gleaned from the Labour Force Survey commissioned by the Department for Education and Employment, which show that 21% of black and Asian people obtain degrees, compared with 16% of their white counterparts, the question of why they are still far less likely to make it to a senior role in the workplace is a pertinent one.
At a news conference with the Americans and their Russian counterparts, the question elicited a smile from Russia's foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, and guffaws from uniformed members of the general staff sitting in the audience, as if asking it were audacious.
Rather than talk to your counterpart, ask questions to understand their position.
At Ft. Bliss, some German airmen report that their American counterparts openly question their courage.
Given the significant differences in the flowering time between most bmr lines and their wild-type counterparts, the question arises what the origin of these differences is.
This comparison implies that the students who attended class in the adapted-teaching version had an advantage over their counterparts in questions that required higher-order thinking (eight out of 40 MC questions and three open-ended).
