Sentence examples for determination to question from inspiring English sources

He imaginatively recreates the textures of life in 18th-century England and shows an admirable determination to question received wisdom – which results in his disappointingly, but I think correctly, scotching the seductive notion that Barber was the solemn figure painted by Joshua Reynolds.

In the case of the genetics of sex determination, biologists failed to question the 'default' model for ovarian development inherited from the 1950s and 1960s.

He held that while the respondents had argued that the provision clearly denied the court the ability to question the determination made by the Foreign Compensation Commission, the question at hand did not even involve the questioning of the purported determination and instead focused on whether there was in fact a valid determination.

"They may start to question some of our determinations and put us under more scrutiny and possibly raise a reasonable doubt".

A determination to answer these questions was how I found myself hanging around a sprawling industrial estate a few miles outside of Glasgow last weekend at a Robot Wars taping.

Giving an unusual bit of battlefield color, General Pace said Army Special Forces had described attacks on horseback by the Northern Alliance, whose determination to fight has been questioned in some quarters.

Serve-volley expert Llodra spoke before the match of his determination to attack Murray and questioned whether the world number four was too passive in his own tactics.

He's got the balls to keep asking the same question, what a guy!' I read it differently; I see it as a cross between tennis and a chess game because Paxman has decided that by asking this question, 'Did you threaten to overrule him?', he's eventually gonna get him to answer the question and score the point or reveal his determination to keep asking the question and not be put off by the MP.

No doubt his determination to answer the wrong question is deliberate: misrepresenting policy issues is, after all, standard operating procedure for this administration.

Though few experts question Mr. Hussein's determination to obtain nuclear and biological weapons, there is a debate about why.

But nobody can question Madonna's determination to fight for a movie she directed and co-wrote, and on which she has currently staked a huge part of her professional identity.