Asking a question forces the conversation onto the topic you've defined -- questioning subtly seizes conversational control.
It stays within the set frame and aims at achieving the defined goals, without questioning them.
Janet Yellen, the new Federal Reserve chair, at least approached it with a measure of intellectual honesty when defining the problem, questioning whether the widening gap between the ultra-wealthy and the rest of us – to measures not seen since the days when my teenage grandmother tried to learn the Charleston – is compatible with the country's values.
Holder is a veteran of contentious public outings, although most of them have come not in addresses to the general public but on Capitol Hill, where his six years in office have been defined by antagonistic questioning from members of Congress.
If you ask a goth academic — because of course there are goth academics — it's this constant process of questioning and defining that keeps the subculture vibrant.
I've seen a lot of great practice over the past few years from a wide range of organisations: Watershed, Tate, the V&A, Storythings, Caper, Culture 24, Abandon Normal Devices, Blast Theory, Coney and Pilot Theatre are all – in their own ways – shaping, questioning and defining digital narratives in the arts.
Trying to find a useful way of defining their problems is pretty much the same as questioning the question in theory.
His manner of questioning can be defined as hermeneutical in that it proceeds from the interpretation of the human situation.
Republican leaders, egged on by Fox News and talk radio, encouraged the bigoted language that has defined Trump's campaign by questioning Obama's religion, birthplace, patriotism, and legitimacy from day one.
The only way to solve it is to emerge from the soft, warm, safe cocoon of ignorance into an environment defined by relentless challenge and questioning.
