They are simply unanswerable at this point in the campaign.
SNP Westminster leader, Angus Robertson, said: "With a larger membership than the Lib Dems and Ukip combined, and more elected MPs than Ukip, the case for including the SNP in the televised debates is unanswerable".
Under the Skin, the new film from British director Jonathan Glazer, gave a celebrity twist to an unanswerable riddle when it put a wig on the Scarlett Johansson, sent her off into Glasgow city centre and filmed her performance with hidden cameras.
The case for widescale reform of the nation's largest school system has been unanswerable for so long that Mr Giuliani may actually come to regret charging into this china shop so late.It may be possible for New York to design a more cumbersome education system, but it is not obvious how.
I thought George Osborne looked slightly too pale and vampiric at the beginning, but he was competent and reasonable, and, thanks to Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown, he has a pretty unanswerable critique of the government's record at his disposal.
Pakistanis, poor and misruled, are seething.That amounts to an unanswerable case for foreign aid even if corruption and inefficiency mean that some of the money is bound never to get into the hands of the needy.
And he poses once again the unanswerable question that Marcel Proust raised: by what alchemy does Vermeer transmute the realistic depiction of that everyday life into something transcendent and timeless?
Like so many of his colleagues, he worries away about interpretation and social context, even though in places he concedes that the questions now being posed are often ill-formed and unanswerable.
If both leaders had been prepared to stretch that crucial bit farther, might their fingers, perhaps, have entwined?Seek peace, or face an even gloomier futureThat, now, is an unanswerable question.
The draft meets many of their longstanding demands, in particular the legal incorporation of a "charter of fundamental rights" and the establishment of an independent "legal personality" for the EU.In this section The lesson of Slobodan Milosevic's trial and tribulation Asking the unanswerable Reform provokes outrage Ever closer in all but name Outsiders aren't helping Back to bloodshed?
Which is perhaps the great unanswerable objection to Mr Bertram's assertion: how can you say that growth is morally irrelevant when you literally don't know what you're missing?One of the many fascinating things about reading someone like George Orwell is the extreme poverty of what he thought a decent life; it would hardly do for a weekend camping trip nowadays.
