| We have asked him direct questions and he never dodges them, although he may well give himself a moment of reflection before he replies. |
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| Other pollsters ask their respondents to qualify their answers, instead of giving simple yes-or-no replies. |
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| Most replies wanted the cheapest option and thought the council a waste of money. |
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| In other words, surely small variations to wording cannot make a significant difference to people's replies? |
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| I've just checked my email now and, twenty-five minutes into the working day, I've had two replies. |
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| I would receive instant replies and reviews from readers in all corners of the world. |
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| So perhaps it wasn't the short-termism but the uninspiring return that prompted those replies. |
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| Still getting used to the place, and no time to read the huge threads or write large replies. |
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| It soon became apparent what the 16PF questions were angled towards, and some of the multiple choice replies were quite restrictive. |
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| My ability to read and respond to replies will be limited until next week, but feel free to send them along. |
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| Always be clear about how you want respondents to indicate their replies when answering closed questions. |
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| You're obviously going to leave it at that as you fail to find any more solid arguments to my replies. |
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| Efforts to ascertain concrete information are met with bland replies and you come away none the wiser. |
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| He replies talking about having a wife he loves and who loves him, a wonderful daughter and a good life. |
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| He held up his hand in order to silence any dim-witted replies as the sliding barn door swayed and heaved before finally giving way. |
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| Socrates plies his interlocutors with a chain of questions, and their replies trap them into self-contradiction. |
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| What takes most time is not sending your information out but waiting for their replies. |
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| In both our replies England sagged like so much peach Melba left out in the midday Melbourne sun. |
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| Spitefully, Madame Defarge replies that she has indeed observed Lucie and makes a sinister gesture miming the guillotine. |
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| She replies with a description which typifies the wonderful person of Christ. |
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| We did straw polls in the sections and the replies were unanimously and unprintably opposed to the offer. |
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| No trick fancy contorted smart-mouthed smirking replies, but frank and open answers! |
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| Jack replies with that sort of noise which in a man would be called a chuckle, but which in his is called a nicher. |
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| I've talked to spam-senders, and some of them are quite bemused by the venomousness of some of the replies they get! |
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| To her surprise he not only replies but also invites her to interview him at his house. |
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| I still have plenty to do, and a stack of emails that are waiting for replies, but they will have to wait until later in the week. |
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| Sometimes even the most harmless remark about America would call forth very sharp replies from him. |
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| We're not running most of the replies, because we don't have enough asterisks in the office stationery cupboard to make them safe for work. |
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| There is a dedicated subforum, the Pianists Forum, where you might get more focused replies. |
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| So far, on-air replies to prodding by radio and television hosts have cast the candidate in an unfavourable light. |
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| The replies I got were pure circumlocution and double talk, nowadays referred to as spin. |
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| We don't give stock answers or pat replies to their questions and many players actually know our support staff by name! |
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| Before the magic of email, collectors of penfriends used to have to wait for slow overseas mails to get replies to their letters. |
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| The conjunctive theorist might still avail herself of one of the above replies to preemption and disconnection. |
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| He demands to know if that really happened, and she coolly replies that he can sleep there himself if he wants to know. |
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| I do not expect to deal with the details of written replies on the floor of the House, but I am happy for him to come and see me. |
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| Because four years of mind-numbing lectures have dulled my mental reflexes, I momentarily floundered in a sea of possible replies. |
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| To my relief, both seem willing to offer more than just two-word replies today, with neither playing the fool. |
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| Without missing a beat, he replies that he has been thinking about opening a funeral transportation service, maybe a crematorium. |
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| The actors insulted the hosts who had prearranged scripts with brilliant replies. |
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| Since I was talking generalities rather than specifics, it wasn't my intention to spend a lot of time searching and counting replies. |
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| He gives one of his rumbling belly laughs, then replies that he is certainly not Superman. |
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| The earliest section of the quiz requires you to match the replies given by some random selection of, eek, ordinary people. |
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| Tessa replies, and I am surprised to find myself genuinely disappointed as she stands. |
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| A number summarize whole books with replies to subsequent criticism or epitomize decades of work of an author in two-dozen pages. |
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| Their model was Socrates as depicted in Plato's Socratic dialogues, where he puts questions to his interlocutors and deduces conclusions unwelcome to them from their replies. |
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| The England manager, naturally, is much more discreet and gentlemanly in his replies, refusing to count the bedpost notches or pass an opinion on his partners' motivations. |
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| He is very good at it and doesn't need the ministrations of censors, interrupters, and editors who thoughtfully cut out important parts of his statements or replies. |
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| Haraway replies that it rejects both objectivism and relativism for the ways they let knowers escape responsibility for the representations they construct. |
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| Curiously, when you consolidate their replies they tend to cluster around the actual figure as recorded in almanacs, yearbooks, and statistical returns. |
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| Here is a selection of some of the replies we have received so far. |
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| Maci Trufant, destined to be Gob's betrothed, writes letters to her brother in the Zouaves, then finds that her left hand, unbidden, writes his replies after he is killed. |
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| Another whose calls I always welcomed was a young civil servant in the Board of Trade, an orderly man whose remarks and replies were brief and to the point. |
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| When a vicar asks a young chap why he does not like where he lives, he replies the people are unfriendly and the town is a dirty and unwelcoming place. |
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| To be fair, these are replies to arguments put forth by the plaintiffs in the case. |
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| They did what the wanted when they wanted, they said whatever they pleased and they tore others down faster than you could figure out your own comeback to the snippy replies. |
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| All these questions were addressed, and the replies and technical annexes were provided to the IAEA, who also suggested they were very interested in this. |
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| Thieves imitate well-known Web sites or send email with fake letterheads and ask for personal information, collect the replies and abuse what they learn. |
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| Equally charming and frustrating, the singer also tends to skip around answers to some of the harder questions with riddling, sermon-like replies. |
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| He then said he wanted all the questions and replies to be keyed toward an improvement in the relationship between our countries. |
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| Val replies but it gets drowned out by a piano and distant chanting. |
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| You'll also get a real mailbag, with, like, replies and stuff, tomorrow. |
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| As the terse replies pile up, I am on the point of suggesting that he looks weary, as though his dog has died, only for it to emerge that his dog has died. |
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| The boy seeks out the spirit and asks it how he can become a real bear, to which the spirit replies that he must pass three tests of great strength, endurance and solitude. |
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| The Chorus replies that it is their duty to avenge crimes of matricide. |
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| However, when then asked questions about the specific disputes they had recently attended their replies almost invariably contradicted their initial response. |
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| Springer jauntily replies, quickly adding that his tawdry syndicated show is probably a more accurate harbinger of the End Times. |
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| Ravens croak replies to the squeaks and cries of marmot and pika. |
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| Debate is thus foreclosed in glib, prepared, often single-sentence replies that a trained front-bench speaker can issue as if from his own mammoth brain. |
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| He tried to coax the distraught girl out of silence, inquiring about her school and family life, but her replies were clipped. |
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| Sitting ramrod straight in an armchair in the sitting room of the London hotel where she is staying, she replies that she had forgotten she had written that. |
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| Unlike other Mediterranean cities I've visited, snappiness and curt replies from those behind desks and counters was an ongoing theme. |
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| Therefore, during the first three months of 1688, hundreds of those who gave hostile replies to the three questions asked were dismissed. |
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| Direct replies to someone's contribution are not permitted, with an aim of seeking truth rather than of debating. |
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| They received replies from 28 different Welsh organisations and a large proportion of these referred to Welsh ethnicity, language or identity. |
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| Three factors, country of academic education, discipline, and age, were found to be significant in differentiating the replies. |
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| At the end of the meal, a series of toasts, often including a 'Toast to the Lassies', and replies are made. |
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| Her subtle replies under interrogation even forced the court to stop holding public sessions. |
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| The president's quick and humorous replies gave his speech great quotability. |
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| Interjections are reported only if the member speaking replies to them or remarks on them during the course of his or her speech. |
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| Kissertits' smart-aleck replies only served to infuriate Killer, which of course, was Kissertits' intent. |
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| They relay course information and Oaxaca's radioman, a young officer fresh from Mexico's naval academy, replies in English. |
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| Lee Allen opened the scoring for a battling Ghost side, with Mogul's blushes spared by late replies from Steven May and Liam Vogul. |
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| Collision Avoidance systems which rely on transponder replies triggered by ground and airborne systems are considered passive. |
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| If he replies not, his reign begins at the inauguration ceremony several days afterward. |
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| On 20 October the replies from Zurich, Basel, Bern, and Schaffhausen were read and the council condemned Servetus as a heretic. |
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| The replies to questions indicate that the technology provided noncontractually is generally more routine and incremental than that protected by contracts. |
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| My mates and I wrote to The Mirror asking for penpals and we must have received about 300 replies, which was fantastic and really boosted our morale. |
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| A badness of Angra Mainyu replies each goodness created by Ahura Mazda. |
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| Second, note the role of the respondent's epistemic state. It is a factor in determining the correct replies, but only when the propositum is irrelevant. |
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| While hashtags aren't formally part of Twitter, some clients, such as Tweetdeck, will persist hashtags across replies to create a sort of message threading. |
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