Sentence examples for could not give an answer from inspiring English sources

Earlier in the day, when reporters asked Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, how far away a tax overhaul proposal was, he said he could not give an answer.

With schizophrenia, the vast majority of respondents (78%) endorsed the view that the person depicted in the vignette suffers from an illness in the medical sense, whereas with major depressive disorder this view was shared by only 58%, while 21% each answered in the negative or could not give an answer (Table  1).

When he couldn't give an answer, one of the two men shot him dead.

The firefighter couldn't give an answer, and Belles concluded the man didn't know much about fire.

Their head coach, Jacques Brunel, asked after the defeat by England where Italy were going, replied that he could not give an immediate answer to the question and then spoke for five minutes.

The site explains, he "asked the Coroner's Officer if it meant she died as a result of the surgery...but the office said they could not give a definitive answer". Davis' death shocked her supporters two months ago.

He could not give a straight answer".

Cameron could not give a definitive answer.

The FA could not give a "definitive answer" over whether its official song would be released.

Indeed, when I asked her why she was seeing me, she could not give a coherent answer.

The biggest names in postwar architecture could not give a definitive answer; their easy interpretations inspired a landscape of inscrutable modern synagogues.