call into question

Related to call into question: bring out, pass up, trip up, stilling, errs, holding forth, holding up

call (someone or something) into question

To cause someone or something to be viewed with doubt. I considered Walt for the promotion, but his constant lateness soon called that decision into question. Such a significant error really calls all of the experiment's results into question.
See also: call, question
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

call someone or something into question

to cause someone or something to be evaluated; to examine or reexamine the qualifications or value of someone or something. Because of her poor record, we were forced to call Dr. Jones into question. We called Dr. Jones's qualifications into question.
See also: call, question
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • call (someone or something) into question
  • call in question
  • bring (someone or something) into question
  • bring into question
  • bring/call/throw something into question
  • cast doubt on
  • consider
  • consider (someone) for (something)
  • consider for
  • cast doubt on (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
Recent discoveries of long-gone marine invertebrates call into question the occurrence of a catastrophic global extinction hundreds of millions of years ago.
New fossils threaten an extinction theory
Noguchi's photographs are similar in many respects to the work of German conceptualists like Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, and Candida Hofer: unblinking documents that, by virtue of their banality, call into question the very concept of documentary photography.
RIKA NOGUCHI
These differing opinions on the significance of Kateryn Parr are more than varying interpretations of facts; rather, they call into question the significance of her role and influence in court and beyond.
Kateryn Parr: The Making of A Queen
bishops, Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit and Matthew Clark of Rochester to call into question the Church's teaching on homosexuality.
Update of the Catechism: (capital punishment and homosexuality)
The asteroid's apparent absence of a magnetic field may call into question the measurement of fields reported for two asteroids--951 Gaspra and 9969 Braille--similar in composition to Eros.
Asteroid Eros poses a magnetic puzzle
Yet the intent remains serious and the strategy consistent: to call into question the ontological status of such categories as truth and fiction, actuality and preconception, substance and style , by constantly blurring the boundaries between them
WILLIE DOHERTY
In their first paragraph, they made use of a quotation from Margaret Thatcher, of all people, to call into question the free-market policies of the Conservatives:
British bishops and elections
In their hermeticism, Gabellone's works seem to address our alienation from the direct experience of reality--or one might say they call into question the very notion of reality, through constructions that are very subtle from a conceptual standpoint.
GIUSEPPE GABELLONE
The findings call into question a widely used estimate of the carbon dioxide emitted when residents of the tropics chop down trees, burn vegetation, and convert forests into pastures and crop fields.
The case of the missing carbon dioxide