Sentence examples for rambling reply from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Obama gave a rambling reply on emergency response, intelligence flaws and the importance of engaging "the international community".

Early Sunday afternoon, in response to a question about how his team had handled the pressure of the first two games, Manager Buck Showalter gave a rambling reply that devolved into an account of the team's tricky road schedule recently.

But most neutrals felt Livingstone came over as the most assured of the three candidates and that Johnson suffered by his rambling reply to Paxman's persistent calls for him to name the price of his intended replacement for Livingstone's unloved bendy buses.

Then Robert Gibbs gives a rambling reply to a question from the front row about it, Secretary Clinton gets in on the act somehow, and, maybe, if we get really bad protests and flag burnings and an accidental death if we're lucky, the President will weigh in.

The battle between Daily Kos and pollster Research 2000 went from ugly to surreal last week, as the website and its founder, Markos ("Kos") Moulitsas, filed suit and pollster Del Ali fired back with a lengthy, frequently rambling reply to TPM's Justin Elliot.

"How you would like it to happen?" "Uh, I'm speechless right now — like I'm trying to digest all this amazing experience that I'm going through," Mr. Francis replied, his rambling response bordering on evasiveness.

The candidate replied with a rambling attempt to change the subject, but near the end he let his real feelings slip.

He eschewed his trademark rambling answers for short, concise replies to a barrage of questions and addressed the leaked cables briefly at the end of a 50-minute meeting.

"My recollection is that it was a rambling letter and when the question came up, well shall we reply to the letter, one of the problems was it's hard to know what to reply to, it was just a sort of rambling, sort of stream of consciousness," President Bush's National Security Advisor Steve Hadley told the BBC for a documentary on President Ahmadinejad.

In 2006, he decided to send an 18-page letter to President George W Bush. "My recollection is that it was a rambling letter and when the question came up - 'Well, shall we reply to the letter?' - one of the problems was it's hard to know what to reply to," says Steve Hadley, former national security advisor to President Bush.

Reddit's system of up-voting comments and short, swift replies have helped the Q&As gain notoriety, but Murray's long, rambling answers were confusing users, with some claiming his remarks were "lost in translation".