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The counter-question becomes “what have you decided is happening in the world up to and during the campaign?”
Cheeseburger Gothic » And now, Gentlemen, down to business. 2010
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I can answer that with a counter-question: Why would he want the controversy to end?
L, t U & E 2010
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Mama coo – in answer to your question: "How does one determine that votes for Hillary are just because Rush told them to vote but votes for Obam are because he's so wonderful," I have a counter-question for you: How many of those Republicans voting for Hillary (slightly over 5% of the total vote in this primary) do you suppose plan to vote for her in the spring over McCain?
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We have seen how religion arouses suspicion among the development establishment; but, if there has to be a question about whether religion is to be trusted in this context, there is a counter-question about how that establishment itself secures trust among those with whom it works.
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A counter-question, if I may: with the expectation that the residents of a children's virtual world are in fact minors under the law, what is the virtual world's responsibility for helping minors understand the terms of the EULA and act upon them?
Virtual Parentalism 2009
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I have a counter-question: At what point did the government become responsible to hold our hands for every dark moment in life?
Stephen Harper’s NDP Party Releases Budget Tomorrow « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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"Would the warning have availed?" was the counter-question.
Beloved Nylissa James Maliszewski 2008
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Mann raised the issue of the origin of posts, which raises a counter-question:
Mann's New Divergence "Theory": A Smoothing Artifact « Climate Audit 2007
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We are still living with the echoes of that counter-question, and it is right and inevitable that we are.
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It has come to stay, as far as the household of Europe is concerned; but first it equips those who want to question whether the household is all that there is and whether its authority is beyond challenge; and then it has to face the counter-question about its own truthfulness and integrity or legitimacy that this general scepticism generates.
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