Sentence examples for underlying question in the from inspiring English sources

The underlying question in the two cases argued today, Ewing v. California, No. 01-6978, and Lockyer v. Andrade, No. 01-1127, whetherther the life sentences meted out under the state's three-strikes law violated the Eighth Amendment.

The underlying question in this debate: Does the importance of Selma hinge on validation from the Academy?

An underlying question in this study concerned the validity of using computational linguistic data concerning first-person pronouns and emotional words as a way of measuring project ownership.

The underlying question in all of this is, of course: why?

One of the underlying questions in conducting a genome-wide analysis of hundreds of FN mutants is whether the presence of certain genes is essential or dispensable.

The presence and preventability of an AE was determined based on a standardised procedure and preceded by a number of underlying questions in order to secure a systematic assessment.

The Supreme Court ruling defuses the controversy that had been mounting for a week between the judicial and executive branches of state government, though it does not resolve the underlying question of whether the 900 judges in the state will be given a 2.8percentt raise.

The underlying question of the film is: How in the world was Devereaux exonerated?

The underlying question — spotlighted in Beethoven's late works — is whether it is the point of music to sound easy at all.

I believe the underlying question fueling the entire debate is, "Will this change also create a change in my pocketbook".

Such films provide a vital reminder of what's at stake in the issue of availability and in the underlying question posed by Seitz and Ehrlich regarding the recognition of classics: classics are movies that expand the possibilities of the art, that offer templates not of imitation but of inspiration, that liberate other filmmakers and potential filmmakers.