"obtain a reply" is correct and usable in written English.
It means to receive or acquire a response from someone. Example: "I sent an email to the company and hope to obtain a reply from them soon regarding my job application."
Each participant is provided with a faecal specimen kit (specimen pot, instructions on how to obtain a specimen, reply-paid, Post Office approved packaging), and a short symptom questionnaire with reply-paid envelope.
If such use of one citizen's vote could obtain a prompt, substantive reply to every mortgage modification request, certainly use of it would be more efficient.
These probability distributions were pooled, giving equal weighting to each distribution (i.e. to each expert reply), to obtain a combined probability distribution for the attributable fraction.
I asked a 17-year-old student who is in a gang about his ability to obtain a gun and he confidently replied, "Easy".
From all contacted patients a total of 3,855 did not participate in our study, because they refused to participate, they gave no reply, we could not obtain a valid postal address or they first agreed to participate, but it was not possible to conduct the baseline patient interview within a time frame of 16 months.
From the 41 replies expressing an interest (29% positive response rate), 17 GDPs were selected to obtain a spread of dental practices throughout the region.
'No.' " Mr. Cruz replied that he was glad that "after much gymnastics," he had obtained a clear answer that such a strike would not be legally permissible.
When Republic of China General Han Hun Li, a commander of the famed Fourth Army, was stationed in Ichang, Hubei where she resided in 1929, he proposed to her, asking her what she would wish as his wife; "obtaining a college education" was her reply.
After Melanchthon returned to Wittenberg, he obtained a copy of the Confutation and decided that a more complete reply to the arguments of the Catholic theologians was necessary.
We sought to obtain three replies per organization, representing different functional roles where possible, for a maximum response of 267 individuals in total.
