Sentence examples for response was firm from inspiring English sources

Fassel's response was firm.

When I asked William Shawn, The New Yorker's editor, if he would approve and underwrite the project, his response was firm and negative.

But Tove Jansson's response was firm – another bid for invisibility: "No, I'm not going to let the sculptor's daughter grow any older… I'm not the least bit interested in trying to describe what happened to her later; it's only the child's way of experiencing things that interests me".

Nina Garcia, one of my first bosses, asked me during my interview to become her assistant if "Twenty was OK?" I said, "Twenty dollars an hour?" Her response was firm: Twenty thousand dollars a year.

And as the mutinous insubordination and squabbling reach fever pitch, his response is firm and decisive.

To those who question whether Paris needs another modern art museum, in addition to the Pompidou Centre and the ultra-modern Palais de Tokyo, which opened in 2002, the response is firm: the Pinault Foundation will be a contemporary art museum that will supplement both these state-funded enterprises.

The responses were firm and consistent.

The response was a firm but polite no.

When the Confederate States of America seceded, the response of the United States of America was firm: dissolving the Union was impermissible.

The narrator of this novel, Oliver Orme, is a former painter and lifelong thief who has "purloined" the… When the Confederate States of America seceded, the response of the United States of America was firm: dissolving the Union was impermissible.

The political affairs minister, Djoko Suyanto, was firm in his response.