Sentence examples for once in response to from inspiring English sources

In a 2012 interview with The New York Times Magazine, Oscar Pistorius said that he owned a 9-millimeter pistol and that he had wielded it once in response to a false burglar alarm at his home.

Former President Barack Obama did so 13 times, including once in response to the H1N1 swine flu pandemic.

Britain protested twice to the Italians, once in response to Italian aircraft landing in Majorca, the other pre-emptively over any significant change in the Mediterranean.

He noted that the firm had found majority support for allowing in refugees only once, in response to a 1999 question about bringing several hundred Albanian refugees from Kosovo.

Grunt vocalization occurred only once, in response to the calls from the same gang.

I spooned a molten chunk into my mouth and was able to identify it by its texture: meat — which had once been muscle, and which, hanging from bones, had once contracted in response to a lamb's desire to run.

Ms Miers is a born-again Christian who once gave $150 to an anti-abortion group and who once said, in response to a questionnaire from a gay-rights group, that she opposed overturning a Texan ban on sodomy.

"Remember what Gladstone once said" — in response to provocations by the Fenians.

("I think people should stop complaining and whining," he once said in response to a question).

He once barked, in response to one of her art projects: "You're a movie star.... Now deal with it.

After a brief montage of clips from Gross's most notable "Fresh Air" interviews since 1975 — from Philip Roth to Joan Didion to Jonathan Franzen and on and on — it suddenly seemed difficult to think of a well known author who hadn't once squirmed in response to Gross's penetrating questions.