In one sense it was a silly question: nobody can possibly promise a stable government.

ECONOMIST: India

It does seem like a silly question to many, but we believe that there is at least 3 key things that business can learn from government.

FORBES: 3 Things Business Can Learn From Government

Maybe you think this is a silly question, but I think getting the answer right is worth a point or two of GDP, year in and year out.

FORBES: What Is America's Brand?

And as Colin pointed out, that wasn't a silly question.

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For many Americans this is a silly question.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

This sounds like a silly question.

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Why should farmers enjoy special protection? (A silly question, perhaps, in a world where governments routinely stuff rustic pockets with taxpayers' money, but one that needs to be asked.) Another worry, says John Copeland, a professor at the National Centre for Agricultural Law Research and Information in Fayetteville, Arkansas, is that tobacco firms might use these laws to bankrupt their critics.

ECONOMIST: Food-disparagement laws

Policing Minister Damian Green told BBC One's Question Time Mr Schofield's intervention was a "pretty tasteless and silly stunt".

BBC: UK Politics

That embrace will be weakened, not strengthened, by silly attacks on religiosity, stimulating the spiritual to question the seriousness of people who profess a concern for civil liberties.

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