Sentence examples for essential question is from inspiring English sources

There is a long and tortured legal history surrounding mountaintop mining, but the essential question is this: Is dumping mine waste into streams a violation of the federal Clean Water Act?

"The essential question is the trade-off between the risks and the benefits.

The essential question is: How is Israel's security a vital United States interest?

But the essential question is: why do we need to claim Beethoven as black at all in order to think more deeply or differently about his music?

longhand?" But the essential question is: "Have you found a space, that empty space, which should surround you when you write?

Sometimes pledges simply don't come through, and so one essential question is whether the college, and Sanders, knowingly inflated the promises.

The essential question was whether the purpose of the penalty imposed on the farmer is punitive.

Both true, but unhelpful in answering the essential question: are WH Smith shares, at their current price, decent value?

Judge Gregory wrote that the essential question was whether the Constitution protected the right "to challenge an Executive Order that in text speaks with vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination".

As jury selection began yesterday in the sexual-harassment case against a longtime basketball superstar and his employer, often referred to as the world's most famous arena, perhaps the essential question was who might be blinded or biased by the presence of Isiah Lord Thomas III and the power of his standing as president and coach of the Knicks.

Their "essential question" was inspired not by a particular piece at the Guggenheim but by the structure of the museum itself -- the iconic, spiraling edifice designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1959.