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Definition of Calling into question
1. Noun. A challenge to defend what someone has said.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calling Into Question
Literary usage of Calling into question
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"... been founded on a construction of the laws of the state, without calling into
question the constitution of the United States or any act of Congress. ..."
2. A Strategy for Assessing Science: Behavioral and Social Research on Aging by Irwin Feller, Paul C. Stern (2007)
"Research can generate widespread interest in various ways, including developing
new lines of theory, raising new research questions, calling into question ..."
3. The Proceedings of the Hague Peace Conferences: Translation of the Original by James Brown Scott, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of International Law (1921)
"... have the effect of calling into question the Japanese proposal which provides
that a vessel may receive a certain quantity of coal in a neutral port. ..."
4. The Law in Business Problems: Cases and Other Materials for the Study of by Lincoln Frederick Schaub, Nathan Isaacs (1921)
"We are, therefore, to deal with the question presented as calling into question
the corporate act, and not involving any suggestion of an excess or abuse of ..."
5. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford by Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"... over their mean desertion or neglect of you, by calling into question the
validity of your marriage, and consequently of the birth of your children. ..."
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