Sentence examples for question to begin with from inspiring English sources

It may be that witnesses in police stations and courtrooms are being asked the wrong question to begin with — that telling witnesses to pick out a perpetrator, or state exactly what they saw or heard, implies they really can when science suggests that they may well be unable to do so.

Christopher Ryan: That's an excellent question to begin with.

So we decided to try out the local goods (which wasn't really a question to begin with, just more curious to understand the pricing structure clearer).

After more than two years of extreme frustration, I finally came up with an explanation for our annoyingly circular conversations: my son, now 11, has some executive function/information-processing "issues" -- which means he might not understand my question to begin with.

The important question to begin with, anyhow, is whether the public good concept is useful for understanding the evolution of prokaryotes, and the extent to which it remains so for various parts of the eukaryote, or perhaps just the sexual, world can wait.

But "Methuselah's Children" deals with the social questions raised by longevity in a way that could seem satisfactory only to people who were not actually interested in the social questions to begin with.

Unlike other contests where questions are internally decided, Solve crowdsources the questions to begin with.

I naturally asked questions to begin with not thinking this was strategy but once I realized he didn't like it I did it more.

"Is there some way to preempt those kinds of unethical questions to begin with?" she thought.

It also prompts a few obvious questions: To begin with, is there any way to know whether life is real or fake?

It's not that they answered incorrectly in the end; it's that they were asking the wrong questions to begin with.