Reporters consistently fail to ask pertinent questions about dose, exposure, likelihood of actual harm or compliance with federal regulations.

FORBES: Cleaning Up The EWG's Dirty Dozen

Each has expertise (in my mind) in different areas and I reach out to sub-groups with relevant and pertinent questions.

FORBES: Build an Advisory Board For Your Life

In the course of the voyage I couldn't resist asking him all sorts of pertinent questions, accompanied by opinions (to which, as you dear readers know, I'm a bit addicted).

FORBES: Fact & Comment

At NPR, where civilized discourse is one of the network's cherished goals, it's not always possible to strike a perfect balance between the often competing goals of civility and the pursuit of responsive answers to pertinent questions.

NPR: Delicate Art of the Interview: Civility vs. Tenacity

There is a bit of a responsibility on us to do that and we will take the time to do it right and when we launch we will have a significant number of answers to very pertinent questions which I'm sure you will ask us at the time.

BBC: Basil McCrea wants to be Northern Ireland's first minister

Answering these questions seems more pertinent than applying journalistic amateur psychology on a continental scale and asking Africans to be confident again.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Mr Thaksin submitted reams of evidence to the commission and appeared before it to answer questions once its members had examined the pertinent files.

ECONOMIST: Reform schools