Definition, Betydelse, Synonymer & Anagram | Engelska ordet ASKING

Definition av ASKING

1. böjningsform av ask
2. presensparticip av ask

Exempel på hur du använder ASKING i en mening

• Following an election, the president nominates a member of the Knesset to become prime minister after asking party leaders whom they support for the position.
• The death sentence of Socrates was the legal consequence of asking politico-philosophic questions of his students, which resulted in the two accusations of moral corruption and impiety.
• During the evening of Halloween, on October 31, people in costumes travel from house to house, asking for treats with the phrase "trick or treat".
• In 1965, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Western Sahara, asking Spain to decolonize the territory.
• Written in response to a letter by eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon asking whether Santa Claus was real, the editorial was first published in the New York newspaper The Sun on September 21, 1897.
• Green was initially used as the symbol of Mir Hossein Mousavi's campaign, but after the election it became the symbol of unity and hope for those asking for annulment of what they regarded as a fraudulent election.
• Hitchhiking (also known as thumbing, autostop or hitching) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking individuals, usually strangers, for a ride in their car or other vehicle.
• Produced in response to eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon's letter asking whether Santa Claus was real, the widely republished editorial has become one of the most famous ever written.
• The Socratic method (also known as method of Elenchus or Socratic debate) is a form of argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions.
• In late 1939 he wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb, and then in 1944 wrote the Szilard petition asking President Truman to demonstrate the bomb without dropping it on civilians.
• Wolff started the league after many midwestern cities contacted him (through his affiliation with Baseball America) asking how they could get a minor league team.
• By the fourth century the word was used for "an intercession", asking a patron for their influence with the Almighty.
• Chares, in need of money for his war effort, frowns upon asking it from Athens, so, partly compelled by his mercenaries, he enters the service of the insurgent Achaemenid satrap of Phrygia Artabazus who rewards Chares very generously.
• “Now he would confess his sorry love to her nurse, asking her not to be hard on him, by the hopes she had for her darling.
• After Antiope was impregnated by Zeus and fled to marry king Epopeus in Sicyon, the Bibliotheca reports that Nycteus killed himself in shame, after asking Lycus to punish her.
• Zeus and Hermes came disguised as ordinary peasants, and began asking the people of the town for a place to sleep that night.
• Cleomenes received an embassy from Maeandrius of Samos asking him for help to expel the tyrant Syloson, a puppet of the Persian Empire, which was at the time subjugating the city-states of the eastern Aegean sea.
• Hazel McCann, a department store clerk from Ohio, wrote to Douglas asking what he thought had happened to Christ's garments after the crucifixion.
• She escaped to Mount Pelion so that her father would not find out that she was pregnant, but, being searched for, she prayed to Artemis asking for assistance, and the goddess transformed her into a mare.
• In the poem Vafþrúðnismál, collected in the Poetic Edda, the god Odin poses a question to the jötunn Vafþrúðnir, asking who among mankind will survive when the winter Fimbulvetr occurs.

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