Sentence examples for question toward from inspiring English sources

"And what is that?" he asked, his eyes as lively as those (as I imagine them) of Socrates driving a pupil, question by question, toward an inarguable conclusion.

In response to the recent debate over niceness in literary criticism, Caleb Crain asks on the Paris Review blog: "Is it possible to shift the question toward ethics?

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Others have urged Mr. Cuomo, who holds a commanding lead in a New York Times poll released on Monday, to play it safe and try to steer each question toward a discussion of Albany's problems and his proposed solutions.

J.D. Gordon, Cain's spokesman and national security adviser, said Mr. Cain was asked the question toward the end of a 45-minute session amid a long day of traveling.

Consulting his notes only sporadically, he rocked forward onto his toes to reach over the lectern toward jurors at times, and periodically he waved his eyeglasses for emphasis as he hurled a rhetorical question toward prosecutors.

Thomas then questioned why reporters were not directing questions toward Walsh and James L. Dolan, the Madison Square Garden chairman.

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT: Educators are moving away from multiple-choice questions toward open-ended questions requiring longer answers.

Reporters, though, still shot questions toward Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner, even though he is not expected to contend for the overall victory here.

And he was performing comfortably enough that he was able to re-orient a couple of questions toward messages that might appeal to general election voters — particularly with his focus on cutting taxes for the middle class.

Judge Scheindlin has directed similar questions toward officers, asking them about the circumstances that led them to frisk a person in the first place — slightly more than half the recorded street stops in New York City result in frisking — and what the frisking entailed.