Sentence examples for to settle a question from inspiring English sources

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

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.

The trustees now have the responsibility to settle a question at least as pressing as whether Mr. Armstrong should keep his job: What is a museum of American art?

The body, the paediatric and congenital cardiac services review, was asked to settle a question at the centre of the Bristol tragedy, and which has been raised many times over the years: how many operations should be carried out by a children's heart unit each year for the surgeons to be expert in the complex techniques?

British officials say that the supposed plot to blow up transatlantic airliners last month had a direct link to al-Qaeda, even if the alleged plotters were inclined to violent extremism before making contact.That seems to settle a question often asked of al-Qaeda: is it a cohesive organisation or rather a source of inspiration for other radicals, who may claim to act in its name?

C.E. MONTAGUE Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

The playful linguistic feud between the broadcasters John Humphrys and Melvyn Bragg peaked on Monday afternoon as the pair attempted to settle a simmering question: should the present tense be used to talk about the past?

The summiteers agreed on the steps they might take to settle a tax question that has divided them since 1997.Their decision was, in principle, that their national tax authorities could tell one another about interest paid by banks to non-resident savers, thereby attacking a common means of tax evasion.

Correspondingly, no amount of empirical investigation seems by itself, without some moral assumption(s) in play, sufficient to settle a moral question.

Philosophers, Rawls said, are better off discussing the abstract principles of justice that should constrain the establishment of any social institutions, than trying to settle a priori questions of social and economic strategy.

To take perhaps the most obvious and timely example, it's clearly bizarre to try to settle a tough social question like the need for gun control by reference to a two-centuries-old view that "a well regulated militia [is] necessary to the security of a free State".