Sentence examples for an evasive reply from inspiring English sources

On the morning of Bosworth (August 22), when Richard summoned Stanley to join him, he received an evasive reply and thereupon ordered Lord Strange to be executed, although his order was neglected and Strange escaped.

On each of these the well-prepared prime minister had either a sharp reply or an evasive response to nullify the attack.

When they are, an evasive response is usually accepted.

Ellison later criticized Furman for what he felt was an evasive answer.

Judging from May's evasive reply – she would improve trade through prosperity, growth, jobs, putting UK interests and values first – it seems entirely possible that she would bin existing food rules in order to clinch a deal.

It seemed to be from the laborer that I got the least evasive reply I'd heard to my overused hypothetical about what could be said if the bombers were Muslims.

Everyone remembers Diane Sawyer — by then at ABC — doing headstands with Elián González and asking Marla Maples, in reference to Donald Trump, "Was it the best sex you ever had?" No one remembers Elián's musings on world affairs or Maples' evasive reply.

(Dass etwas im Osten im Gange ist)." "How can you reconcile this new policy with the declaration made by the Führer in one of his speeches that there is only one country with which he could never reach an agreement-Soviet Russia?" X, stressing his answer with an evasive gesture, replied that it was not a question of haggling over words.

Moderator Norman Hamilton's evasive replies to a repeated direct question on Sunday Sequence on 4th July 2010 suggests either that such views are still held by a substantial number of members and clergy of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland or that he holds such views contrary to more enlightened views possibly now held by some members and clergy or by the Presbyterian Church in general.

But after years of receiving snarky, demeaning, or evasive replies, if I received a response at all, I more or less gave up.

Requests for the cession of Colombo met with evasive replies.