Sentence examples for difficult question as from inspiring English sources

Even if it be that we are concluded by the opinion of the supreme court of the state that this ordinance was enacted in the exercise of the police power, we are still confronted with the difficult question as to how far an act held to be a police regulation, but which in fact affects interstate commerce, can be sustained.

With computers, hand-held locators guided by satellites, or Palm organizers, it is always a difficult question as to which desire is more fervent -- to buy the glorious silvery thing that will transport you to gadget heaven or to deconstruct it as violently as possible when it fails to be the mechanism of your dreams.

Noting that "Dixon's free speech claim raises First Amendment issues that are of monumental importance" and "presents this court with a difficult question as to where the outer limit of an individual's right to political expression might lie," the court nonetheless held that Mr. Dixon had no legal right to express to his views at work.

When asked, at the end of Lagerfeld Confidential, if there's anybody who knows the real him, the designer responds, "It's a difficult question, as I have played so much on constructing a certain image of myself that I think it's pretty much impossible, and that is my wish – even for those that I love deeply, I want it to remain impossible".

This is a difficult question, as the education system itself is highly complex, with high degrees of path dependency.

A more difficult question, as in the free speech context, is how to deal with laws that do not expressly restrict the religious freedom of members of any particular religion, but have only an incidental effect on the actions of members of certain religions.

When considering difficult questions as a kid, I always asked for your help, Dad.

Implicit in such a reckoning, they say, are such difficult questions as who speaks for the millions who perished.

Paxman himself was on the receiving end of a couple of difficult questions as he entered the Sky studios yesterday afternoon.

Still, the Americans face difficult questions as they try to repeat as Olympic champions at the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia, in September: Can they survive a difficult draw that features their toughest rivals, Norway and China, in the first two matches?

Such theories, however, face difficult questions as to where the motivation to comply with such moral demands comes from and how those moral demands might be implemented in a democratic process in which future generations themselves have no voice.