1.   They attend monthly board meetings and pepper them with pointed questions and barbs.

2.   Although those types of pointed question were asked, the sensitive superstar never saw them.

3.   An affirmative answer leads to pointed questions and often to another form.

4.   Ask pointed questions before you give one your business.

5.   At a Capitol news conference, he defended the death penalty as he calmly fielded numerous pointed questions from Canadian journalists.

6.   At the Supreme Court, the justices opened the hearing with pointed questions about whether they even have jurisdiction over the case.

7.   Beach volleyballer Holly McPeak fended off pointed questions about the jiggle factor in her scantily uniformed sport.

8.   Bradley was helped in his effort by pointed questions to the vice president about the more aggressive style of his campaign.

9.   A generation ago, two pointed questions impelled a great many people to join the civil-rights movement.

10.   But during two intense hearings in his courtroom Monday, he asked lawyers several pointed questions about the timing of manual recounts.