Sentence examples for the bare question from inspiring English sources

In fact, the only point on which fictionalists disagree with Platonists is the bare question of whether there exist any such things as abstract objects (and, as a result, the question about whether mathematical sentences are literally true).

And that in itself bares the question: How much does the Democratic Establishment want to have Barack Obama in the White House?

We could have lasted until June 2001 if we had scaled back to the bare bone, but then the question was: Would you run a company near bankruptcy or shut it down now and give shareholders some money back?

And, as Rakoff tells us, prosecutors act with virtual impunity because, while a judge is supposed to question a defendant about his confession of guilt, in practice, judges rarely question much beyond the bare bones of his admissions, often relying on the prosecutor's statement of the underlying facts.

Answer their questions with the bare minimum of words.

In short, if torturing the terrorist is morally permissible absent questions of legality, the bare fact of torture being illegal does not render it morally impermissible.

Here it is the bare fact that it is illegal that is in question.

Their quick decision also calls into question the bare-bones defense strategy of Ms. Stewart's lawyer, Robert G. Morvillo, who called only one witness and questioned him for just 20 minutes.

As the author James Baldwin observed, "The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers".

The bare minimum.

The bare essentials.