Sentence examples for spoke in response from inspiring English sources

Mr. Karzai spoke in response to a question at a news conference, adding that coalition forces could not use airstrikes "even when they are under attack".

At the funerals for Liu and Ramos, many officers turned their backs when the mayor spoke, in response to remarks he had made about teaching his biracial son to be careful around police.

Mr. Bloomberg, who spoke in response to a longstanding invitation by the bar association, did not take a position on whether he or the governor should appoint the judges, a change that would require an amendment to the state Constitution.

He spoke in response to an article published Sunday in Haaretz, a liberal Israeli newspaper, that said parts of the barrier that would cut deep into the West Bank would be altered so the route runs closer to the West Bank boundary.

Those officers, most of whom agreed to speak on the condition that they not be identified, spoke in response to a reporter's questions about the nature of gas warfare on both sides of the conflict between Iran and Iraq from 1981 to 1988.

Mr. Su spoke in response to a policy paper issued by China on Monday that repeated longstanding warnings of military action should Taiwan formally declare independence but added for the first time that Beijing might resort to force if the island endlessly puts off talks on political unification.

Unsuspecting, that is, until Acconci began to speak, in response to visitors' movements.

She was speaking in response to the increasing availability of Chinese novels in Vietnam – works which have often taken a convoluted and heavily mediated route to market.

Rose was speaking in response to pressure from living wage campaigners at the internet grocer's annual shareholder meeting in London.

It was purely Greek that, after his stroke, one of the few words that old Joe could speak in response to good news or bad was "No".

So declared Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Nov. 10, speaking in response to reports that Israel may strike Iran's nuclear plants.