Sentence examples for an initial reply from inspiring English sources

After an initial reply to the letter from L.E.

An initial reply to this objection involves pointing out that my perception of the rock is a mental state, whereas the rock itself isn't (Lycan 1996).

Actually, his initial reply was a techie epigram.

Here are a few initial replies (some e-mail shorthand is fixed), starting with a back-and-forth with Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University.

"Water off a duck's back" was the initial reply.

"Home, fast," was the initial reply.

"We don't know," was the initial reply.

The initial reply from the Beijing Organising Committee (known as BOCOG) media director, Sun Weijia?

The promptness of that initial reply appears to be crucially important, data collected by the program suggest.

[12 33 p.m. | Update | Just in case you missed it, David Roberts' criticism of this post is here and here's my initial reply (I'm on the run).] Is there room for more than one approach to pursuing energy and climate progress?

His initial reply was that cases of failing to try to do what one admits one ought to do may involve psychological incapacity, or an off-color use of "ought" that sheds its full prescriptive meaning.