Sentence examples for civil reply from inspiring English sources

But after three months a letter came, saying: "Dear Mr Tynan, You asked for a civil reply.

Flashman's own conclusion proposes "suggesting to Her Majesty's ministers that next time they get a letter from a touchy barbarian despot, it might save 'em a great deal of trouble and expense if they sent him a civil reply by return of post".

By Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, December 21 , 1940P. 81 I have long nourished the desire to answer, once and for all, those questions that people are continually asking o one another without getting a civil reply, or as a rule, any reply at all.

UCLA economics professor Roger Farmer then wrote a fairly long and civil reply defending DSGE.

For example, there is Vice President Dick Cheney's less-than-civil reply to Senator Patrick Leahy on the floor of the United States Senate.

Ellington, offended by the accusation that he had been silent on civil rights, replied that those who doubted him had simply failed to use their ears.

The N.I.E. is the rare forum where civil servants can reply.

How typically shallow and short-termist of a politician, the civil servant might reply.

As Attorney-General, Bobby was asked in May 1962, "What do you see as the big problem ahead for you, is it crime or internal security?" The reply? "Civil rights".

"Well, I think, the one that I remember, the one that I remember making a contribution to, was called What's Wrong With McDonald's?" Asked if that was ever disclosed to the court during the long-running civil trial, he replied: "I don't know the answer to that question".

"No, it's a civil offence," she replied.