The phrase "a firm response from" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the need for a strong or decisive reply from someone or an organization, often in the context of addressing an issue or concern.
Example: "The community is expecting a firm response from the city council regarding the proposed changes to the park."
Alternatives: "a strong reply from" or "a decisive answer from".
Only a firm response from President Bush can bring this crisis back to where it should always have been: the negotiating table.
The minister's letter drew a firm response from the chair of Ofcom, Dame Patricia Hodgson, who said in a reply to Bradley that it was important that the regulator was "transparently independent".
The decision by Egypt's Supreme Security Court to sentence the prominent sociologist and human rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim to seven years in prison for defaming Egypt (news article, May 22) seriously tarnishes Egypt's political credibility, and deserves a firm response from the Western world.
The consulate was the latest symbol of entrenched power to be torched by protesters in Basra during a week of demonstrations, raising concerns that the unrest would draw a firm response from Iran, which controls several powerful militias in the oil-export city.
Recent research by Martin Gaynor, an economist at Carnegie Mellon University, shows that mergers, whether in the for-profit or not-for-profit sector, can push up prices by over 50%.This wave of consolidation requires a firm response from America's antitrust authorities, which to date have challenged few of the mergers.
Mr Cameron and Mr Obama agreed the need for a "firm response" from the international community to the attack.
Indeed, China may well fear a nuclear Japan more than any disturbance in the Korean peninsula". Public policy professor Bruce Jentleson said North Korea's actions warrant a swift, firm response from the U.N. Security Council.
"This was an act not only against a candidate of a political party but against democratic institutions, and it requires a united and firm response from all those who work for democracy," a stern-faced President Felipe Calderón, who has found his presidency repeatedly bogged down by drug violence, said in a nationally televised address.
What she got instead was a sympathetic, though firm response from Weyman A. Carey, the commissioner who is the president of the board.
"We're fed up of waiting for a clear and firm response from Carwyn Jones," he said.
