Sentence examples for reversed the question from inspiring English sources

But when Lincoln was asked if he thought God was on his side, he reversed the question.

To me, this reverses the question.

She cogently asks, "What do art museums want?" But it might be more helpful to reverse the question and ask, "What is the admission-paying public conditioned to appreciate?" ["Memo to Art Museums: Don't Give Up on Art," Dec. 3].

Mitroff et al. (2004) in fact reported that memory for pre- and post-change scenes was preserved even when participants reported no awareness of a change, but in follow-up experiments they found that the stored representations are fragile; simply reversing the question order from cued-recall first to cued-recall last lead to significant decrements in recall.

8. Reverses the question.

Let me reverse the question at hand.

"When someone argues with me, I just reverse the question.

I reverse the question and ask what the rough sleepers gathered there would demand of the council.

"I would reverse the question to you and I would say this -- do you think that President Clinton should be condemned for the rest of his life based on a mistake that he made in his life?" It wasn't the only across-the-aisle comparison made during the debate.

But the apparent ease with which the policy was reversed raises the question of why George Osborne was so determined to press ahead in the first place.

But another poll, conducted over two days last week and one day in September, found the Quinn/Rauner numbers almost exactly reversed when the question was which candidate respondents believed to be more trustworthy.