Sentence examples for whether lying from inspiring English sources

Certain dialogues, such as Of Lying, end on an inconclusive note; the disputants cannot agree as to whether lying is a universally evil act.

Philosophical opinion is divided as to whether lying is morally wrong.

The City is divided over whether lying in court should preclude him from holding office again.

As for the serious charges, the question is whether lying to your investors merits 24 years in prison, nearly a life sentence for a man who is now 58.

He speaks briskly: 'There was never a time when I gave up hope, whether lying mortally wounded on the streets of Riyadh or coming to terms with being partially paralysed.

Susannah is shown to have inherited her father's gift for dissembling in a play that asks whether lying is sometimes justified and that gives us a foretaste, in Michael Mears's creepy Vicar-General, of the inflexible zeal that would soon close down the theatres.

Father Leahy said he expected that the Boston College programs on the crisis would include issues like clergy celibacy, female priests and whether lay people should have more influence.

Further, the system of collective responsibility for the payment of outstanding taxes known as the allelengyon now devolved not on the rest of the village community but on the nearest large landowner, whether lay or ecclesiastical.

However, it is not known whether lay people appreciate the diversity of species and not just certain individual species or nature as a whole.

Prior empirical investigation of these cases has raised questions about whether lay people generally share philosophers' intuitions about these cases, or whether lay intuitions vary depending on individual factors (e.g. ethnicity) or factors related to specific types of Gettier cases (e.g. cases that include apparent evidence).

To determine whether lay people can accurately recognise influenza infection.