Sentence examples for question lay from inspiring English sources

Thanks to Juror 7, a new question lay before us.

The inspiration for my question lay in a fascinating new book by Toronto-based journalist Carl Wilson.

The spokesman, Zhu Bangzao of the Foreign Ministry, said "the answer to your question" lay in China's insistence on an apology and an explanation.

Behind this question lay another: how could a white woman nurse a baby the way a black woman did? (Generations of black women, slave and free alike, not only nursed their own infants but also served as wet nurses to white babies).

Drowned out by mock outrage and raised voices, a nagging question lay behind this week's spat over whether the new chief executive of the civil service should be forced to resign from a second job: can the civil service ever learn to share?

This question lay at the heart of the fight to stop SOPA and PIPA and keep the web open.

The principal difficulty of this question lay in giving an unassailably correct and general definition of what was meant by such expressions as 'definite method' or 'effective procedure.' Turing worked on this alone for a year until April 1936; independence and isolation was to be both his strength, in formulating original ideas, and his weakness, when it came to promoting and implementing them.

Each image in Bannino's Still Diets series consists of a table suspended in a black void, upon which elegant silverware, relevant decorative artifacts, and the food in question lay.