Stangis started off by asking some basic questions: What makes a good ranking method?

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After asking some basic questions, she shuffled the stones and statuettes around her checkerboard and launched into my diagnosis.

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To make their case, the generals and admirals needed to do some creative salesmanship while avoiding some basic questions, like Will they work?

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In light of that, you can ask yourself some basic questions: Did California get this way because Republicans held up even more taxes?

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The difference between America and Europe in dealing with Islam reaches down to some basic questions of principle, such as the limits of free speech and free behaviour.

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He and his team were plowing through Pinocchio and found themselves in a creative bind as they wrestled with some basic questions of animation, like how to draw the main characters.

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We needed to answer some basic questions.

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America's Financial Stability Oversight Council, whose first meeting was due to be held this week, has some very basic questions to answer about what constitutes a systemically important firm, for example.

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He says he wants to rebuild, but he needs answers to some basic but very important questions.

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The questions were also described as some basic queries now asked of presidential nominees, like whether they ever hired illegal workers or neglected to pay taxes for nannies.

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