Sentence examples for notion of asking from inspiring English sources

Still, some people bristle at the notion of asking permission to make a change.

So Admiral Seigenthaler came up with the notion of asking for volunteers.

The notion of asking a computer for information out loud is familiar to most of us only from science fiction.

Caramanlis rejected the notion of asking the United States government to pitch in and pay part of the bill.

Andrew Gelman, a statistics professor at Columbia University, said he thought that the notion of asking people about their social networks was a smart one.

All are comedy films, however, and some may find the notion of asking a man to play the emotionally-frail Boyle insensitive.

Someday a sequel to "Flatterland" may appear that instead of displaying the varied properties of different spaces, may take the next transcendent step, presenting a completely different notion of truth, asking Victoria Line's descendants to imagine a coherence that now seems inconceivable.

"I think this whole notion of even asking the question, 'Who is the black leader?' is off the mark," Mr. Raoul said.

In his follow-up, The Happy Brain, Burnett delves into our grey matter once more to explore the slippery notion of happiness, asking: what causes it, and why?

"It feels very strange to me, the notion of people asking me what I do for a living, and at 48 to say, 'I'm a blogger.' " Not that she sets out to be just another member of the blogging pack.

And so I'm still grappling with how you say no when you're asked to, well, first of all, the whole notion of being asked to volunteer.