In reply to a question of whether they now tax boats, airplanes and other movable property excluding automobiles, nineteen said that they did and twenty that they did not.

Generally, an answer is a reply to a question or is a solution, a retaliation, or a response that is relevant to the said question.

In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.

In Elizabeth Gaskell's biography, Anne's father remembered her as precocious, reporting that once, when she was four years old, in reply to his question about what a child most wanted, she answered: " age and experience ".

In the trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin and Pilate, it might appear from the narratives of Matthew and Luke that Jesus at first refused a direct reply to the high priest's question: " Art thou the Christ?

" He chose the context of psychotherapy to " sidestep the problem of giving the program a data base of real-world knowledge ", the therapeutic situation being one of the few real human situations in which a human being can reply to a statement with a question that indicates very little specific knowledge of the topic under discussion.

" In reply to the question on whether this meant they intended to create a military dictatorship, O ’ Connor said: " You can take it that way if you like.

Such a question may be asked merely to harass or upset the respondent with no intention of listening to their reply, or asked with the full expectation that the respondent will predictably deny it.

Another is the use of French reflexive constructions in sentences such as the reply to a question like Where are you going ?, reply: Me I'm goin ' downtown ( this reflexive form of grammar also exists in Irish Gaelic and Jerriais ).

Lyudmila Shestakova recalled the reply made by conductor Eduard Nápravník and stage manager Gennadiy Kondratyev of the Mariinsky Theatre in response to her question of whether Boris had been accepted for production:

The directive is regarded as " inviolable ," and any Star Fleet officer responding to a question regarding their prior actions with words to the effect of " I cannot reply due to the Temporal Prime Directive " would not normally be subject to censure, as long as some form of temporal instability had been sensed, however slight the signs.

Mr. Michael Stewart, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in a reply to a question in Parliament, 9 December 1969: " As I have explained before, there is reference, in the vital United Nations Security Council Resolution, both to withdrawal from territories and to secure and recognized boundaries.

In court, the police officer states his reply to his question was " I killed my wife.

" It is also commonly used as a question tag, i. e., method for inciting a reply, as in " It's nice here, eh?

" When Toklas did not reply, Stein said, " In that case, what is the question?

Fallowfield's reply to any question began: " Well, I think the answer lies in the soil!

See also F Hardy, Memoirs of Lord Charlemont ( London, 1812 ); Warden Flood, Memoirs of Henry Flood ( London, 1838 ); Francis Plowden, Historical Review of the State of Ireland ( London, 1803 ); Alfred Webb, Compendium of Irish Biography ( Dublin, 1878 ); Sir Jonah Barrington, Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation ( London, 1833 ); WJ O ' Neill Daunt, Ireland and her Agitators ; Lord Mountmorres, History of the Irish Parliament ( 2 vole., London, 1792 ); Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III ( 4 vols., London, 1845 and 1894 ); Lord Stanhope, Life of William Pitt ( 4 vols., London, 1861 ); Thomas Davis, Life of JP Curran ( Dublin, 1846 ) this contains a memoir of Grattan by DO Madden, and Grattan's reply to Lord Clare on the question of the Union ; Charles Phillips, Recollections of Curran and some of his Contemporaries ( London, 1822 ); JA Froude, The English in Ireland ( London, 1881 ); JG McCarthy, Henry Grattan: an Historical Study ( London, 1886 ); Lord Mahon's History of England, vol.

He showed his intention " absolutely not " to implement racial screenings in reply to the question from Steve Kroft on " 60 Minutes " right after 9-11.

The Sacred Congregation of Rites on November 26, 1919 stated in a reply to the following question,

* Paralleling the stepmother's question of her magic mirror, the Indian epic poem Padmavat ( 1540 ) includes the line: " Who is more beautiful, I or Padmavati ?, Queen Nagamati asks to her new parrot, and it gives a displeasing reply ...";

In reply to the question of whether he should stop, they replied that once released, he should continue with even more dedication.

It also can be a reply to a question or statement.

In response to the question from a man named Acela Kassapa as to whether or not suffering is self-caused, the Buddha gave a negative reply ; " A person acts and the same person experiences result — this, Kassapa, which you emphatically call ' suffering self-wrought ', amounts to the eternalist theory.

When asked what genre she would classify her music as belonging to, she would reply, " Enya ".

Burn Variation Main Line ( C11 ) · 1 – 0 Judit's opponent falls for a clever trap, expecting her to play 14. Bxa8 and he would reply with 14 ... g4 !, but she springs 14. g4!

A personal reply she received from Hazel Dawn ( whom she had seen in a stage production of The Pink Lady ) inspired her to go into acting.

A white woman once asked Tubman whether she believed women ought to have the vote, and received the reply: " I suffered enough to believe it.

Novalee and Forney end up sleeping together, after which he tells her that he loves her and she doesn't reply.

Glinda, using her book that records everything that happens, is able to know that someone is using a telegraph to contact Oz, so she erects a telegraph tower and has the Shaggy Man, who knows how to make a telegraph reply, tell the story contained in this book to Baum.

After Fibber repeated everything she had been telling him, Teeny would reply " I know it!

In 1899, when the Variations were being finished, Elgar wrote to Lady Mary Lygon to ask permission to use her initials, but as she and her brother were on the point of leaving for Australia ( he had been appointed Governor of New South Wales ) and there was not time for a reply Elgar used "***" instead.

Perhaps Hernández's best known poem is " Nanas de cebolla " (" Onion Lullaby "), a reply in verse to a letter from his wife in which she informed him that she was surviving on bread and onions.

To which Mr. Donnes reply was: I cannot be surer that I now live, then that I have not slept since I saw you: and am, as sure, that at her second appearing, she stopped, looked me in the face, and vanished.

He later confronts Kitty, but still asks her to marry him ; she taunts him in reply.

In 1982, Smith wrote a letter to the newly appointed CPSU General Secretary Yuri Andropov, and received a personal reply which included a personal invitation to visit the Soviet Union, which she accepted.

Samantha was happy to discover that her letter had been published ; however, she had not received a reply.

For two years, Arthur wrote numerous letters in Latin to his bride-to-be, and she would formally reply.

Instead, she simply had Molly refer to Jake, occasionally setting up dialogue in which his reply was not heard when she spoke to him.

She maintained that a great deal of the scholarship of white feminists served to augment the oppression of black women, a conviction that led to angry confrontation, most notably in a scathing open letter addressed to radical lesbian feminist Mary Daly, to which Lorde stated she received no reply.

Another novel written in reply to Allen's work, Lucas Cleeve's The Woman Who Wouldn't, ( 1895 ) sold well and received hostile reviews, she said of this,

At the age of 15 to17, a similar ceremony is again held, again asking questions pertaining to the time since their Sehra as to whether they fully understands the expectation of Islam and Allah and is willing to stand as an adult, responsible for one's actions or words at which point he / she will reply " naam ".

She said that she heard Mary reply, " Yes, I shall take Francisco and Jacinta soon, but you will remain a little longer, since Jesus wishes you to make me known and loved on earth.