Sentence examples for terse call from inspiring English sources

She has a high, forceful voice that leaps above her band and grabs each melody, whether it's a long-lined, griotlike exhortation or a terse call and response.

Even Cullen O'Brien, an account executive with Laughlin/Constable Inc., which designed Firestone's 100th-anniversary Web page months ago -- and thus, could not possibly be accused of insensitivity in terms of spreading anniversary cheer in light of a giant recall -- responded to a reporter's questions with a terse: "Call Bridgestone/ Firestone.

Their 27-year relationship ended in a terse phone call the following day.

Even in that first terse phone call Mr. Blair is shown to be eager, polite and glib, while Mr. Brown, a Scotsman, is surly and diffident.

In a terse conference call with journalists – the bank avoided face-to-face encounters, citing transport difficulties in London as a result of the Olympics – the bank's chairman, Marcus Agius, refused to provide more details, cutting off questions with a curt "enough".

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally delivered his criticisms to his Polish counterpart in a terse phone call Sunday, according to his office, saying Morawiecki's comments were tantamount to Holocaust denial.

Mrs. Gardiner and her lawyer, Sanford Krigel, refused interview requests today and released a terse statement calling the decision "a step in the wrong direction" and suggesting that they might appeal to the United States Supreme Court.

Under the current system, terse phone calls between the Russian military and the American command post in Qatar are supposed to allow each side to notify the other about the movement of its jets — sometimes giving only minutes of warning.

While this is rather terse, Hume calls attention to three important elements in Newton's natural philosophy: (a) Newton's commitment to an experimental method; (b) the cautious nature of Newton's methodology; (c) Newton's boldness once experiments have established a "principle".

Several minutes later, I received his terse, succinct reply: "Call".

It would be weeks before the next piece of news would come, in a terse, devastating phone call from the consulate: Francisco was dead.