Sentence examples for half the question from inspiring English sources

As vital as that is, it answers only half the question: how do we know that inequality is damaging?

Claire Kramsch, a linguist Erard consults, provides wise insight: "Asking how many languages you know is only asking half the question.

Should such a person be allowed to speak in your town?" Presser and a colleague conducted a survey of their own in which they asked half their sample the question as Stouffer had written it and the other half the question without its leading first sentence.

"How would you keep crime down," he asked, "but at the same time confront the problem of police brutality and racial profiling?" The candidates seemed to hear half the question, talking only about changing police practices to avert new debacles like the Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo cases, disparate situations now nearing court climaxes.

If President Barack Obama neglects to make a final decision on the pipeline in his last year and a half, the question would fall to the next president and his or her secretary of state.

John Harris: Most publications run bylines on them, which maybe answers half the question.

"Half the questions, if not more, were answered with 'I don't know, I don't know,' " Callicoe said.

As Dr. Wainer explains, adaptive exams are designed so that, in theory, everyone gets about half the questions right.

Half the questions gave volunteers a chance to earn money by inflicting self-harm.

In a news conference in which nearly half the questions were geared toward having Spieth process what happened at Augusta, he said, "People have moved on already — at least I thought so until I came in here today".

Half the questions in both groups were about treatment.