Sentence examples for A firm response from inspiring English sources

Israel quickly blamed Iran and promised a firm response.

In a frank letter to David Cameron, Marina Litvinenko called for a firm response.

"It's important to have a firm response now," the official said.

But riots of this scale are rare, and if violence erupts, policy dictates a firm response, Mr. Tanner said.

When a nation or group strikes at America, Lake advocates a firm response, though he recognizes Washington's quandary.

"If they make this a platform for more confrontation, then there will be a firm response," Palmor said.

Senator John McCain, the Republican nominee, has long called for excluding Russia from the Group of 8 industrialized powers and has urged a firmer response.

A not-necessarily reassuring: "Sure". (Despite several queries, he never quite graduated to a firmer response). "Asking if your candidate is mentally suited to the presidency is a pretty low bar," The Fix's Aaron Blake writes.

And some members of Congress, who have been briefed on the tests on a classified basis for well over a year, have been pressing the White House for a firmer response.

(For example, Rwanda's genocide and civil strife might have met a firmer response if the French- and English-speaking worlds had put up a united front, instead of seeming to compete by proxy).

I believe that such an approach would provide a welcomed, firm response, penalising the offender and at the same providing magistrates a much needed option between a community sentence and full custodial incarceration.