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calling into question

n. a challenge to defend what someone has said [syn: demand for explanation]

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But now with her son, Yuji, Nishitsu was calling into question her loyalty because of her sense of ninjo towards the son she had, until now, kept sacrosanct from her life within the Black Blade Society.

This is why in the '60s the spread of LSD was viewed with such alarm by the Establishment, because it appeared that the machinery of right-thinking, Christian capitalist society was simply being dissolved before the startled eyes of its purveyors by virtue of the fact that so many people were calling into question the assumptions of the culture that they were inheriting.

He was, for a moment, gobsmacked by the sheer presumption of a mere student, twenty-one years old, with no degree, calling into question the great Boyle’.

After a quarter hour of discussion Odo was reeling from her observations, calling into question as they did every- thing he had ever believed anent the value of law in guiding good behavior.

After a quarter hour of discussion Odo was reeling from her observations, calling into question as they did everything he had ever believed anent the value of law in guiding good behavior.

Well, I've been clever enough to grab onto something like this behavioral science conclusions calling into question, knowing that it was something subjective in many ways, .

By then it was too late to undo the honors without calling into question the whole academic system.

Usually he enjoyed a few verbal exchanges with him, calling into question each other’.