Sentence examples for an evasive answer from inspiring English sources

I asked what it meant and I received an evasive answer.

Bonds was convicted of giving an evasive answer to a grand jury in a steroid distribution case.

"She doesn't know that we are from Bombay Leprosy Project," said Ms. Ajayan, who gives curious onlookers an evasive answer when they ask her why she is here.

Farron, a practising Christian, has been repeatedly questioned on the topic due to an evasive answer he gave on homosexuality two years ago.

In April Bonds had been found guilty of obstruction after giving an evasive answer to a grand jury in 2003 over whether his trainer had ever given him anything that required a syringe for injection.

The Liberal Democrat leader has been pressed to clarify his position on homosexuality in the last 24 hours because of an evasive answer he gave two years ago on whether he believed gay relationships were sinful.

A long-simmering controversy over the ruling party's policy of playing down Japan's responsibility as a wartime aggressor came to a head just days before the funeral, after Takeshita appeared before a parliamentary budget committee Feb. 18 and gave an extremely evasive answer to a question by a Communist lawmaker on whether Nazi Germany had been a wartime aggressor.

This is, as well as being a dizzyingly evasive answer, a standard "we've learned lessons" response that is the equivalent of a naughty child's "I didn't mean to do it".

Dr. Dean did seem perturbed during some of the program, and many of his answers -- especially an evasive response about whether Canadian same-sex marriages should be accepted in the United States -- showed he is all too aware of the political consequences of his self-proclaimed boldness.

"It was a somewhat evasive answer," Rep. Charles W. Boustany Jr. (R-La). said.

"It makes me more cognizant of the challenges, which is a really, really evasive answer," he said.