Sentence examples for taken the answer from inspiring English sources

So long have the British – let alone the English – taken the answer to this question for granted that we are liable to forget quite how much a nation needs ideas of collective identity to flourish.

It should have been not "what weaponry does Saddam Hussein possess?" but "Is Saddam Hussein's weaponry, whatever it may be, the real reason for the war, or is it a pretext confected after a decision for war had already been taken?" The answer to that was obvious and could have been known to all, but too many people chose to unknow it.

Following Evans (1978), many philosophers have taken the answer to be obviously in the affirmative.

Mobrem says, despite the direction his own company has taken, the answer is an emphatic yes.

I took the answer to be no.

It is said that doctors, when they ask you how much you drink, will take the answer and double it.

When the state court answered yes, the Ninth Circuit took the answer as sufficient and proceeded to decide the appeal, finding Proposition 8 unconstitutional.

But the crossword's real marvel was 25 Across, for which the clue "Cause of a sexual harassment complaint?" took the answer "MIDASSTOUCH".

In fact if you take the answer literally, it increases it so much that the probability would get bigger than one somewhere near the LHC collision energy.

Many take the answer to be 'yes', and we shall not dispute that here).

Fleet takes the answer down to the wire.