While Ms. Veneman is declaring partial victory, her predecessors could have told her she was playing with fire by questioning a subsidy as entrenched as farm payments.
However, some UMNO officials warned non-Malay parties to avoid "playing with fire" by questioning the Malays' special rights and privileges or Hak Keistimewaan Orang Melayu.
Before Willingham died by lethal injection on Feb. 17, Texas judges and Gov. Rick Perry turned aside a report from a prominent fire scientist questioning the conviction.
But after a morning of aggressive, rapid-fire questioning, the lead prosecutor, Steven Nuzzi, attacked Mr. Salley's flip-flopping stories.
Mr. Fisher had answers, but he struggled to compress them into a phrase short enough to survive rapid-fire questioning from the justices.
So far, often under rapid-fire questioning that might wither some adult witnesses, the child has stuck to his story with only minor contradictions.
But it is the similarities between the medieval prosecutorial strategies — play good cop, bad cop; instill a sense of futility; use rapid-fire questioning — and the United States Army interrogation manual that are chilling.
For all of the rapid-fire questioning, he is guardedly optimistic, and said that his initial impression of Amtrak's management has been "very, very favorable," even as he estimates the railroad's budget proposal could be cut drastically.
When Scalia became a Justice, in 1986, the Court sessions were often somnolent affairs, but his rapid-fire questioning spurred his colleagues to try to keep pace, and, as Roberts said, in a tribute to Scalia on his twenty-fifth anniversary as a Justice, "the place hasn't been the same since".
During rapid-fire questioning by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va)., she seemed to demonstrate a lack of understanding of one of education's major federal civil rights laws, which requires states that take federal funding to provide children with disabilities the services they need to benefit from a public education.
Perhaps nothing better encapsulates the battle to define Harris than her dogged, rapid-fire questioning of Trump administration officials during Senate hearings.
