(n.) The act of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; inquiry.
(n.) A question put; an inquiry.
(n.) A point, mark, or sign, thus [?], indicating that the sentence with which it is connected is a question. It is used to express doubt, or to mark a query. Called also interrogation point.
Example Sentences:
(1) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
(2) Hayden had argued that the harsher interrogation techniques had provided valuable information and said that the techniques did not amount to torture.
(3) This time, as a journalist covering the event, I was arrested on the high seas, briefly imprisoned and interrogated on Mururoa itself while the tests continued.
(4) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(5) A former senior CIA official said the secretary of state at the time, Colin Powell, eventually was informed about the program and sat in meetings in which harsh interrogation techniques were discussed.
(6) Others say they were tortured in places such as Egypt, Dubai, Morocco and Syria, while being interrogated on the basis of information that could only have been supplied by the UK.
(7) Office interrogation of the AICDs revealed 12 of the 20 patients (60%) had received AICD discharges, with 5 of these 12 patients unaware of this occurring.
(8) Zhang Gaoping, 47, told state media that he and his nephew were subject to seven days of brutal interrogation before trial – sleep deprivation, starvation, cigarette burns.
(9) The method involves saturating all spins outside a plane, selectively exciting individual lines, phase encoding along each line, sampling the FID without gradients, and interleaving interrogation of multiple lines.
(10) However, in documents submitted to the Appeal Court, the prosecutor states she has “continually, over the past two years, tested the conditions and the practical possibility for conducting the interrogations and other necessary investigative measures in Great Britain”.
(11) Doctors are failing to keep proper medical records of injuries caused during interrogations.
(12) Thus in your own words you have said why it was utterly inappropriate for you to use the platform of a Pac hearing in this way.” He suggested that many professionals were “in despair at the lack of understanding and cheap haranguing which characterise your manner” after a series of hearings at which Hodge has led fierce interrogations of senior business figures and others.
(13) Murdoch had one on his, of course, but because he was facing hostile interrogation he looked (unfairly) as if he were wearing it in self-protection as a symbol of his own virtue.
(14) In order to exclude physician bias in history taking, 18 patients (9 female) diagnosed as non-ulcer dyspepsia, after endoscopy and gallbladder ultrasonography, underwent computer interrogation using the Glasgow Diagnostic System for Dyspepsia (GLADYS).
(15) These men then handed him over to a team of FBI interrogators, who took a lengthy statement.
(16) In the words of former CIA agent Robert Baer: "If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan.
(17) The 6,300-page Senate report on the CIA’s interrogation program has been years in the making.
(18) All of the hypotheses tested were supported, indicating that there are three primary factors associated with the reasons why criminals make confessions during interrogation.
(19) They have merely changed venue from police stations, where CCTV has been installed in interrogation rooms, to the parking lot on the way.
(20) But he has since retreated from that view and told his confirmation hearing that the Senate's report on the CIA's detention and interrogation programme had disturbed him.
Question
Definition:
(n.) The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.
(n.) Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question.
(n.) Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture.
(n.) That which is asked; inquiry; interrogatory; query.
(n.) Hence, a subject of investigation, examination, or debate; theme of inquiry; matter to be inquired into; as, a delicate or doubtful question.
(n.) Talk; conversation; speech; speech.
(n.) To ask questions; to inquire.
(n.) To argue; to converse; to dispute.
(v. t.) To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; as, to question a witness.
(v. t.) To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query.
(v. t.) To raise a question about; to call in question; to make objection to.
(v. t.) To talk to; to converse with.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(2) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(3) Collins said she asked Sullivan several questions, including who the women were.
(4) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(5) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(6) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(7) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(8) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
(9) The Department of Health referred questions to Monitor.
(10) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(11) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
(12) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(13) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
(14) In our opinion, a carcinologically "malignant" metastatic myxoma remains a questionable pathological entity.
(15) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
(16) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
(17) Patients' and therapists' discourses can be analysed from tape recordings or from their responses to open-ended questions.
(18) The question addressed by this study is whether patients with other pharyngeal pouch malformations could also have immunologic abnormalities.
(19) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
(20) What if the court of justice refuses to answer the question?