To me, the question he posed to the people was a rhetorical question.
No, this is not a rhetorical question but, rather, a seminal question for anyone interested in building a successful brand.
But the critics began to emerge on various websites, and, alas, on Monday night the golfer took a rhetorical mulligan.
Rather, this was something of a rhetorical trick of the devaluationists, who have been around long before John Maynard Keynes was born.
But, though Mr Blair is happy to use the past as a rhetorical device, he does not seem to have learnt from it.
Now the tax tail should never wag the economic dog so I am asking this as a real question, not a rhetorical one ?
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Right off, use a rhetorical question, a provocation or challenge, an anecdote, statistic, catchy metaphor, or even a juicy self-disclosure to captivate your audience.
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In politics, a dog whistle is a rhetorical device--an oral expression susceptible to two interpretations, one straightforward and one, metaphorically speaking, at a higher frequency.
For the latest research shows their physiologies are linked in ways which make the idea of a human superorganism more than just a rhetorical flourish.
" As we explained last August: "In politics, a dog whistle is a rhetorical device--an oral expression susceptible to two interpretations, one straightforward and one, metaphorically speaking, at a higher frequency.
Maybe this was just a rhetorical flourish by a businessman-cum-politician whose reforms were frustrated by an old-line socialist legislature and then battered at the polls by a restive electorate suffering through nearly a decade of lousy times.
But we have, in answer to the question of where are your spending cut proposals, it must be a rhetorical question because those who ask it know that we have put forward very specific spending cut proposals.
That would probably make me feel as if I were the victim of a ludicrous comparison underpinned by a busted rhetorical flush, to be honest.
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And in a major rhetorical shift in the nearly four-decade-old Latin American drug war, American diplomats now acknowledge that U.S. demand drives the illegal drug trade.
The government has made a few rhetorical nods to the environmental cause, for example by promising to protect the embattled sturgeon, the fish that produces caviare.
"There've been a lot of rhetorical efforts to tighten regulation, but Fannie and Freddie have both done a pretty deft job of fending that off, " Leach says.
And an examination of the facts, while confirming that Ryan may have used a bit of rhetorical license, shows no fundamental mistake in the point he was making.
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Presumably, that would be because the government of Israel has drawn them so as to define existential threats to the state, not simply as a matter of rhetorical posturing intended mostly for domestic political consumption.
Promoting pro-green stimulus plans is one way of allowing them to stake a claim to the rhetorical middle ground.
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After a solemn first day out of deference to Gulf Coast states taking a battering from Hurricane Gustav, the Republican National Convention reverted to its traditional form as a gathering of partisan speakers and party activists, serving large helpings of rhetorical red meat from a litany of well-known Republicans and former presidential candidates.
His wide-ranging interests, formidable intelligence, impressive language skills (giving him a command of French, German, Spanish and Russian) and powerful and persuasive rhetorical abilities made him a true national asset.
That tough stance, while worrying to some, is likely to be a kind of "pre-emptive rhetorical deterrence", according to analysts such as John Delury, a professor of International Studies at Seoul's Yonsei University.
The typical genre writer keeps rhetorical flourishes to a minimum, and the typical reader is content to let him.
And in America, opportunity is neither a sham, nor purely rhetorical.
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