1.  A refusal to answer questions for example, could, in the absence of reasonable excuse, amount to contempt of court.

2.  Although the exit polls predicted a very close race, they could not measure early or absentee ballots.

3.  Could the government ban union membership amongst civil servants working at its intelligence headquarters without consulting union leaders?

4.  Dougal could read meaning into the meaningless, like a priest finding omens in the steaming entrails of a sacrificed animal.

5.  Furthermore, health authorities could no longer discharge patients without an individual care plan being approved and agreed with the local authority.

6.  He could never, if the truth were told, stand against his wife.

7.  How could anyone, much less a diplomat like Gordon, deal with such unreasoning rage?

8.  How could the man I trusted to make life better turn around and oppose my right to Marriage?

9.  How could the testimony of an unlettered rustic stand against the authority of an Aristotle?

10.  If flies could be eliminated, then perhaps so could polio epidemics.