Sentence examples for illegal question from inspiring English sources

If you are asked an illegal question, experts suggest that you try to figure out what the real issue is -- your ability to travel, for example -- and answer that question instead.

An illegal question is illegal, no matter who asks it!

But illegal questions are asked, sometimes out of malice, usually out of ignorance.

But others were found to still be asking illegal questions about parental status and discriminating against children in care.

Perhaps they're the women talked over in meetings, dismissed as "tokens" in universities and top jobs, forgotten in Parliament, taxed on their "luxury" tampons, catcalled and wolf-whistled at in the street, asked inappropriate or illegal questions in their job interviews at three times the rate of men.

"We heard everything from women who were newly married going in with their spouses and having potential lenders asking illegal questions like, 'When are you going to have a baby?' to actual discrimination in the home loan," said Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, the executive director.

Secondary objectives included comparing the use of potentially illegal questions in surgical versus nonsurgical specialties and between community and academic residency programs.

I'm not referring to racial or sexual discrimination, or to the illegal questions that sometimes come up in the sleaziest of interviews.

But it could really have been anyone... even people born and raised in this country will sometimes throw illegal questions out during an interview.

The primary objective was to use a pilot survey of fourth-year medical students at our institution to determine if female residency applicants were asked potentially illegal questions regarding family status and childbearing more frequently than male applicants.

Honest answers to some illegal questions--those regarding your plans to start a family in the immediate future, for example--might lead the interviewer to draw negative conclusions about you that have absolutely nothing to do with your suitability for the job.