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Sir Ivan Rogers, who was forced to resign last month as the UK’s Permanent Representative to the EU because he
questioned
May’s negotiating approach, predicted this week a “gory, bitter, and twisted” breakup between Britain and Europe.
We are also taught by our ulamas (religious instructors) that their teachings must not be
questioned.
Almost every time a woman candidate comes up before the committee, her "independence" is
questioned
in a way that is irrelevant, if not insulting.
Any action can be
questioned
by anyone, and if others find it interesting or important, the question will spread – and not just within a small community or a specialist group, but more broadly and around the world.
If threats and violence from the Taliban prevent too many Afghans from casting their vote, the legitimacy of the outcome could be questioned, possibly inciting even more turmoil, which Afghanistan’s fledging security forces would struggle to contain.
It’s a sham debate, because it assumes what must be questioned: Is it really in Europeans’ interest to cut the cord proactively now, before we have even been presented with any concrete US decisions that directly affect us?
When anyone – even Nelson Mandela, the heroic resistance fighter against apartheid who became South Africa’s first black president – publicly
questioned
Mbeki’s views, Mbeki’s supporters viciously denounced them.
But its value is increasingly being questioned, especially in obesity research, where body-composition measurements are proving to be far more relevant.
Havel, however, would have
questioned
whether it could be planted, much less take root, by decree.
Greenspan was as enthusiastic for a policy that led to soaring deficits as any politician; but the fig leaf of being “above politics” gave credence to that policy, engendering support from some who otherwise would have
questioned
its economic wisdom.
Perhaps most unsettling, Trump has called into question America’s automatic defense of NATO allies such as the ex-Soviet Baltic states, whose independence Putin has
questioned.
The Beijing-based dissident writer Liu Xiaobo, an activist intellectual in the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations,
questioned
the government's motives for opposing the war.
To speed things up, after the default was declared in December 2008, Ecuador completed the buyback with an inverse auction for the remaining bondholders, to be settled in cash – rather than a regular exchange in which the legality of undercover purchases was likely to be
questioned.
Indeed, the very notion of an independent Ukrainian state is openly
questioned
by Russia’s leaders, Putin included.
He was a philosopher in the same sense that Socrates was: a thinker who
questioned
what others take for granted, and probed human feelings and actions to help us understand how we can better ourselves and lead lives that are morally superior, yet also more fulfilling.
But, whereas Hamas operates without international recognition from Gaza – its legitimacy
questioned
even by the Palestinian Authority – India’s tormentors function from Pakistan, a sovereign member of the United Nations.
Indeed, in 1974, when General Gamasy, the architect of the 1973 war,
questioned
Sadat’s flexibility in the disengagement talks with Israel, Egypt’s president calmed him down by saying, “Don’t forget, General, we are talking here about peace with the Americans!”
A Strategy to Unite and Safeguard EuropeBRUSSELS – The purpose – and even the survival – of the European Union is being
questioned
as never before.
In America, columnists and editorialists
questioned
and doubted US policies.
Taseer’s murder led to large public displays of support for the alleged assassin on the grounds that he had taken the life of a politician who had
questioned
the content of the “Hudood ordinances.”
Two-thirds of the US Senate’s 100 members are needed, and 29 senators have already
questioned
the wisdom of expansion.
And the United States under President Donald Trump has
questioned
its transatlantic security guarantee and now is undermining the global trade system upon which Europe – and particularly Germany – has relied since the 1950s.
Even pro-Europeans in the UK
questioned
if it was worth voting to remain, given such weak engagement by the UK government in leading the EU.
He was to be
questioned
to divulge the names of his co-conspirators and then executed.
Baker’s talking points seemed aimed at establishing a “new normal,” in which the legality of official behavior is not to be
questioned
and journalists who do so are threatened.
When Brazil emerged as the lowest-performing education system in the first PISA assessment, released in 2000, many people rightly
questioned
the fairness of comparing an emerging economy to advanced countries like Finland and Japan.
Russia, I believe, should clearly say – and the international community should clearly say to Russia – that it has defined borders that will not be questioned, because disputed borders lie at the core of most conflicts and wars.
So was Robert Theobald, who, in his 1963 book Free Men and Free Markets
questioned
the public’s repugnance toward high unemployment.
Membership in both bodies is not really
questioned
by this new right.
To be sure, Iran’s electoral process is often questioned, and for good reason.
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