Sentence examples for inviting the question from inspiring English sources

It had always marked me as foreign, inviting the question Where are you from?

Sunday's game will be preceded by both the American and British national anthems, inviting the question of whether a player who felt moved to protest might extend his gesture through God Save The Queen.

"Admit One," the ticket says, inviting the existential question of admission to what?

You will note that strictly – as Bob Dylan was inviting the lady in question to lie down across his big brass bed, rather than reporting that she had done so in the past – he should have sung "Lie Lady Lie" rather than "Lay Lady Lay".

It's not merely the fact that their parents are getting to know each other, but that they're posing for pictures together, inviting the inevitable probing questions from domestic workers and others.

While the sites may be bigger and less intimate, candidates like Mr. Edwards and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton are still inviting question after question.

Each episode during the whole-class discussion began with an open teacher question, inviting the students to share their ideas.

Each interview started with an open-ended question, inviting the interviewee to tell their story of living past a cancer diagnosis, and then continued with a semi-structured approach based on an interview schedule.

We ask graduates 'What is your choice of long-term career?' This is an open response question, inviting the doctors to name their preferred clinical specialty or any other choice of career.

In what appears a direct challenge to the cabinet – including the Wales secretary, Peter Hain, who has argued vociferously for Griffin's invitation to be rescinded – Thompson says: "The case against inviting the BNP to appear on Question Time is a case for censorship … Democratic societies sometimes do decide that some parties and organisations are beyond the pale.

The case against inviting the BNP to appear on Question Time is a case for censorship: the case, in other words, that (in the opinion of those who make it) the BNP's policies are so abhorrent and so liable to sow hatred and division that they should be excluded from this form of public discourse altogether.