Sentence examples for settling a question from inspiring English sources

Rather than settling a question, the referendums asked many more.

Settling a question that has nagged him for months, Mayor David N. Dinkins said yesterday that he would give up his three-bedroom Mitchell-Lama apartment in upper Manhattan because no one in his family needs it anymore.

We could settle a question, almost.

This settles a question of some 20 years′ standing.

No factual discovery could ever settle a question of right or wrong.

There's also a chance that the Rosetta mission will help settle a question of more direct interest to nonscientists.

THE prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, appears suddenly to have settled a question that has hung over Japanese politics since the summer.

The Brexit referendum asked us to settle a question about identity under cover of asking a question about trade.

In the early 2000s, Bourgain settled a question about addition and multiplication that is simple to state, but hard to prove.

It seemed like a harmless and responsible journalistic task meant to settle a question that had hung over the race for governor — at least in the pages of The New York Times.

Iger's pronouncement settles a question that had hovered for a month, since Disney announced that it would launch a sports streaming service next year and a family-friendly streaming service by 2019.