Sentence examples for questioner why from inspiring English sources

QUESTIONER: Why is five years the magic number for contracts?

Then he challenged his questioner: "Why are you here?" "I'm looking for my son," the man replied.

When someone asks whether it is selfish to have children, Nicholas D. Smith Lewiss & Clark College) asks the questioner why he supposes that "self-interest is the same as the vice of selfishness".

Fuld, nicknamed the "Gorilla" during his career for his overly aggressive style, seemed temperamentally unchanged, telling one conference questioner, "Why don't you bite me?" Months prior to Lehman's fall, Fuld had declared that "the worst of the impact of the financial markets is behind us" and pushed subordinates to take more risk, sidelining or firing those who disagreed with him.

The question why is uncomfortable because often what the questioner means is: "What are you doing singing the blues?

The first time the question "Why have there been no great women artists?" was thoroughly asked and answered was in 1973 and the questioner was the academic Linda Nochlin.

QUESTIONER: Gary, why did you make the decision to not make yourself part of the negotiating group?

One questioner asked why he had not been involved in the protests of the killing of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed black man who was killed early last year by police officers as he stood in the vestibule of his apartment building.

Hunt was speaking about the coalition's Direct Action policy at an OECD event on different climate policies when he was challenged by a questioner about why the government had approved the Adani mine given the huge quantity of emissions its coal would create.

Guise was heckled a little at a candidates' forum last week – one questioner demanded why the Greens wanted non-human animals designated as "beings" and declared that farmers who voted Green would be "putting a noose around your neck'' – but nobody takes his candidacy lightly.

Vasubandhu says, in response, that the Buddha explained quite clearly (to Ānanda, his disciple, after the questioner left) why there had been no good way to answer.