Indeed, the first of those questions was raised on June 1 when a journalist at a U.S. State Department briefing vigorously asked Deputy Department Spokesman Mark C. Toner about Munib's injury.
Mr. Bush would read it and then vigorously ask questions.
Greece vigorously denied asking for leniency from the Washington-based lender of last resort.
Jordany Valdespin, the Mets' offensive spark du jour, nodded vigorously when asked if he still communicated with the former Mets star Jose Reyes.
"Sometimes I feel like a two-week vacation is too much," Mr. Jin, a 28 year old corporate manager said, nodding vigorously when asked if life in Shanghai was already hectic enough.
He responded vigorously when asked if he would make an issue out of the fact that Mrs. Clinton did not live in New York before this year, a subject that Mr. Giuliani, as mayor of New York City, frequently raised.
Although Mr. Kerry and Mr. Edwards said that they had discussed the crisis in Iraq at length over the past few months, Mr. Kerry shook his head vigorously when asked if anything he had heard in their discussion had changed his views on the war or how to end it.
Anthony Scherer, an owner of the company, shook his head vigorously when asked about gun control advocates who have called for restricting the sale of large magazines, which they said contributed to the extent of the carnage on Jan .8. "To point any fingers at the gun industry is ignorant," Mr. Scherer said, as passers-by stopped to pick up and examine the magazines lined up on the counter.
Meanwhile, my students at the University of Missouri-Kansas City — most of whom define themselves as "middle of the road" — nod vigorously when I ask if the war is an important issue.
If one claims that an estimate is meaningful, it is fair to ask how vigorously would one have to defend a specific choice of arbitrary experimental parameters to defend a particular order-of-magnitude range around that estimate.
Obama has never before attacked his labor allies so vigorously, and some union leaders ask why is he fighting so hard for a deal they say will be a boon to corporate America while doing little to help US workers.
