Even if you are an orphan or dying from malaria you are expected to reply to any enquiry starting with habari with the answer nzuri (good).
I asked one cop standing near the door what they were expecting, but got no reply.
He conceded that Chilcot's use of the word "shortly" to describe when final replies were expected was "a bit of an elastic term" that should be clarified, but warned against an externally imposed deadline.
Instant replies to emails were expected, even if sent in the middle of the night or the weekends, and employees were apparently encouraged to secretly funnel their back-stabbing or praise through Amazon's "Anytime Feedback Tool".
"In terms of non-Opec [countries outside the big oil producers' cartel]," he replied, "we are expecting that in three, four years' time the production of conventional oil will come to a plateau, and start to decline.
Microsoft filed its brief to the Washington appeal court on November 27th, and the Justice Department's reply is expected on January 12th.
Surely, he replied to Page, you can't be expecting a market cap of $10 billion.
Forced to reply on the goodwill of male relatives, they were expected to embrace self-sacrifice and good works.
With a pencil and a pad of paper he began framing a reply, not such a reply as might be expected of a cog.
When I asked why the company had done something that caused so much damage, the reply was that it was expected by Wall Street and his CEO peers.
"I've not had a reply yet [from Javid], but am expecting one by the middle of the week," said Bridgen.
