Sentences with phrase «raises at least a question»

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But at least some of what the service is going through raises questions not just about its core value — namely, that it's run by musicians for musicians — but also about its long - term prospects as a competitive streaming business.

It would mean that a 37 - year - old, drug - free Lance came in third in the Tour de France ahead of «at least a handful of other elite cyclists who themselves were later found to have doped — an alleged accomplishment that would raise further questions about his claim that he needed to use PEDs in his prime in order to compete in a culture of doping.»

But because this year's election breaks the mold in a number of important ways, it raises the question of how closely it will hew to past elections, at least where market reaction is concerned.

This at least raises the question about whether or not it is constitutional for the Treasury Secretary to mint a coin in order to bypass a Congressional restriction on debt accumulation.

When and if interest rates begin to rise, corporates may have the incentive to tilt their capital structure back to equity, or at least to reduce stock repurchases, which could raise further questions about stock market valuations.»

Many of these questions were raised in blogs at least in December 2009 through early 2010.

2) name usage statistics do not guarantee the miraculous — but they certainly place an author in that immediate context (or at the very least, with direct access to someone who was from that immediate context), which is a MAJOR contingency that has been much debated in the question of authorship... which IS the topic you raised.

On the other hand, many voices have been raised to question the depth of the awakening, or at least its integrity and maturity.

In any event, Swaggart Ministries v. California raises disturbing questions about the expansion of government control of religion and, at least implicitly, of all the institutions of society.

Wasn't it proper at least to raise the question of whether my draft card should be surrendered to the lordship of Christ?

So I am glad that Santorum has at least raised a question of challenge against Romney — Santorum offers a better question against Romney than Gingrich's opportunistic, devil take the hindmost sloganeering.

However, to my mind, any concept of a limited deity finally entails a denial of the capacity of God to redeem the world and thus, ironically, raises the question of whether God is in the last analysis even love, at least love in the Christian sense of the term.

One may raise questions about this list of pastoral care principles; while few may wish to quarrel with the five enumerated, at least some may be inclined to add to them, even though the respective additions might not in all cases be congruent.

One could raise an almost inexhaustible number of questions; at least a few of them should be noted.

Indeed, it happens so often that it raises serious questions about the other approaches, at least insofar as they try to proceed — ever so carefully and judiciously, they suppose — without this central point up front.

Where questions have been raised, at least from me, looking at the team from a little bit of distance, it's been the central midfield and of course also up top, where Olivier Giroud is yet to prove himself as the main man to fully trust.

* Both our crunchier friends and even the OB tried to talk my wife into at least trying for a VBAC; but she had had enough, and was convinced our babies are not genetically designed to be born vaginally, which raises somewhat troubling evolutionary questions.

The criminal courts charge may be misguided and wrong but it has done at least one service, in raising fundamental and far - reaching questions about who is being brought before the courts and why.

Surely the fact that these files were still active for at least 10 years while we were MPs raises fundamental questions about parliamentary sovereignty and privilege — principles that are vital to our democracy.

At least nine of the three dozen people from the New York City area questioned for jury service by Caproni raised concerns about corporate donations to politicians.

In reply to a Catsimatidis question about campaign finances, she said she'd need to raise at least $ 1 million.

Tracksters, on the defensive since Hein sought to void their lease last year, could take heart that the legislature is at least raising questions as to how the executive has proceeded.

But at least on Wednesday, the question of how the funding restorations would be paid for was still unresolved — especially since the governor has said he doesn't want to raise taxes.

That these files were still active for at least 10 years while I was an MP certainly is and raises fundamental questions about parliamentary sovereignty.

ALBANY — The state Board of Elections has rejected the Independent Democratic Conference's efforts to convert its political action committee into an independent expenditure committee, raising at least a procedural question about the $ 329,000 it spent on behalf of several candidates for last month's primary.

At least nine of the three dozen people from the New York City area questioned for jury service by U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni raised concerns about corporate donations to politicians.

Freud also raised a question about supersonic flights, which will be at least twice as fast as today's jet flights: «Will we have to rest twice as long afterward?

But at least a few physicists now argue that Einstein was far ahead of his time, raising questions that will challenge researchers for decades.

But at least one researcher, Greg Westergaard, who runs a monkey colony at LABS of Virginia in Yemassee, South Carolina, believes the findings raise the opposite question: «Given the relatively recent split between humans and apes, why are humans so much different?»

Because high stress levels can cut into life - span and reproduction, at least in laboratory animals, Wasser says the results — which he emphasizes are preliminary — raise some questions about the efficacy of federal regulations designed to protect the owl.

Although questioning conventional wisdom is essential to scientific progress, this reader, at least, is left wondering if Farber is raising a question or implying an answer that has extreme consequences.

Virtually all this research is paid for at least in part by public money, which raises an inconvenient question: Is the public interest served by journals that don't even recognize scientific excellence?

The DNA data suggest not one but at least two instances of interbreeding between archaic and modern humans, raising the question of whether Homo sapiens at that point was a distinct species (see sidebar).

The discovery pushes back the earliest known existence of microbial life on land by at least 580 million years, and raises an intriguing question — where did life first emerge, on land or in the oceans?

Today, here is T. Colin Campbell's response to Mercola's missive: Dr. Mercola raises so many questions that it would take me at least several weeks if not months to answer.

By the way, to the Washington Post's credit, they at least included this: «Marion Nestle, a nutrition expert and public - health professor at New York University, said the findings raise as many questions as they answer.

I will be reading all of them (up to the point, at least, that they degenerate into arguments between two or three particularly vociferous and contentious individuals), but I will be responding only to those that raise particularly interesting questions or issues, or point out any bone - head mistakes I may have made that need to be fixed.

The film's three - part structure ends with a twist that will raise at least two questions in most viewers.

Ms. Walker doesn't go too deeply into the questions all this raises, but at least she broaches them.

It takes tremendous courage to expose one's life to the camera as Fox does here, and while she answers few of the universal (to women, anyway) questions she raises, at least she's asking them.

Obviously, that raises questions as to who could potentially step in as the new Black Panther if T'Challa never comes back (or at least doesn't come back for a long time).

While quick and eager to offer food for thought with its questions raised, they are then far less sure to offer any sort of satisfying explanations or even at least the beginnings of them, the wishy - washy vagueness ultimately coming off as a willful decision less for intriguing, stimulating ambiguity than to rather gracelessly leave open back doors for sequels.

Questions have been raised over which stars of the previous Ocean's trilogy will show up in the new film - save for Matt Damon and Carl Reiner, who have already been confirmed - and a new teaser for Ocean's 8 seems to retire the question about at least one of them.

It raises the question: Is there anything schools could do to promote the success sequence, and especially the last component — delaying parenting until marriage, or at least until young people are ready for the challenges of starting a family?

In our new report, Opportunity at the Top: How America's Best Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great, Emily Ayscue Hassel and I asked a simple question: «Will our nation's bold efforts to recruit more top teachers and remove the least effective teachers put a great teacher in every classroom?»

The discovery that teachers in some schools may have kept copies of last year's exams and used them to help students prepare for this year's tests, which ask the same questions, knocks off track, at least temporarily, state efforts to raise student achievement through greater school accountability.

The failed recall effort and the unions» weakness (at least at the legislative level) in stopping education reform raise questions about the unions» real level of support.

At least one congressional Republican — U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita, R - Ind., the chairman of the House subcommittee overseeing K - 12 policy, raised big questions about pieces of the prekindergarten proposal, saying it could amount to «an alarming expansion of government power.»

Returned to the local shop and they found, indeed, that the rear struts needed replacing - which raises the secondary question of whether they should take some responsibility for not having properly diagnosed the problem in the first place, or at least credit her some portion of the $ 100 she already paid.

But the defects raise another question, in my mind, at least: Are airbags as safe as we assume, for preventing death and injury in head - on car crashes?