Sentence examples for hedged answer from inspiring English sources

Asked whether that meant there would be no more British money for the counter-narcotics ministry, Miliband provided a carefully hedged answer.

And asked whether Mr. Gore had run an honorable campaign, Mr. Bradley carefully hedged his answer.

Asked if selling control of Warner Music might now mean selling at the bottom, he hedged his answer.

When the question of career goals came up as she was interviewing at various graduate schools, she dodged the question or hedged her answer, saying she hadn't fully decided what kind of career she wanted.

Asked if he would participate, Chavez hedged his answer.

Zuckerberg hedged his answers to many yes-or-no questions with "generally" or "my team will get back to you" or concerns about working out "the details".

Except for a few occasions when I was especially tired and irritable, I tried to hedge my answer.

But despite this, during question time on Tuesday, Turnbull refused to say he backed the institution – instead hedging his answer and pointing out the government had been unable to get the Senate to agree to the CEFC's abolition.

And they can't hedge the answer by saying they're for "globalization with a human face," or some such fuzzy logic.

A historian can spend a lifetime pondering a question and then give a carefully hedged and nuanced answer.

Girardi hedged, then said, "The answer, not to be silly, is just in the lineup".