crucial question

The headline of a Burg Haartez op-ed last month asked the crucial question: "Oslo is dead, what's next?"

At this point in his narrative, Powell asked the crucial question: “Why would the Russians be coming?”

That is the crucial question this jury must decide during deliberations.

But even if Obama can win, the crucial question is, Can he win big enough to change the GOP?

A crucial question, very much affected by what the Admiral told me last night.

"Miss Lund," the district attorney stroked his great beard, as he was apt to do in driving home a crucial question.

But the crucial question is—how big a house can she humanize?

Like a good lawyer, he slipped in the crucial question of his cross-examination between two blind ones.

Ford, glooming out upon the lighted stretch ahead, was once more finding the crucial question answerless.