Don't ask about the other team. (Tortorella does not comment on any of these topics.) In asking a yes-or-no question, never assume that he will elaborate.

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But while there is agreement that a negotiated settlement is the best way forward, Mr Lavrov told the BBC there was no question of Russia asking President Assad to stand aside.

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"If it's an exam paper, they're asking you a question that there's no answer to, " said Lee Westwood at the time.

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In the old Soviet Union, a regime that did rule by fear right to the end, there would have been no question of the Red Army politely asking a Moscow television station to tone down its 24-part show about Janko Baurovitch torturing the captured CIA agent in order to locate the nerve gas capsule buried under Red Square.

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But I'm asking about the President's position, a yes or no question.

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He said there was no "practical or financial impediment" to asking I Want a Referendum campaigners from putting such a question on the ballot.

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