Her initial reply to my questionnaire was: "I wouldn't even say for sure we were in a relationship, though?"].
I mentioned the concept of fiduciary government in my initial reply to McDonald--the idea that the Constitution delegates power to government officials (the fiduciaries) to act on behalf of We the People (the beneficiaries) for specified purposes through specified means.
In addition, there is no presumption that the objections discussed below are the most important or that the initial replies to them are without fault.
The By the Book feature on April 29, an interview with Madeleine Albright, omitted a set of initials in her reply to a question about book recommendations for students of government.
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.
"To ensure that members of the public have as much time as was initially anticipated to reply to initial comments in these proceedings, the Bureau today is extending the reply comment deadline by three business days," the FCC said in a release.
Shackleton's initial reply was accommodating: "I would like to fall in with your views as far as possible without creating a position that would be untenable to myself".
The initial and obvious reply to the second objection is that age as such is not the issue but rather the reliable correlation of age with the acquisition of those capacities that qualify a person for the attribution of rights.
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.
