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

In the past the president's hands-off approach to health-care reform has raised pertinent questions about his leadership style, but, despite the narrow margin of victory, passing the bill marks solid progress and at last gives the Democrats something to cheer.

ECONOMIST: Health-care reform in America

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