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.

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.

Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.

He did not reply, going on toward the back.

By the time Birrell cabled his reply authorising the action, at noon on Monday 24 April 1916, the Rising had already begun.

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He wrote a work throwing doubt on the canonical authority of the Apocalypse, which called forth a reply from Dr Leonard Twells.

Westcott claimed to receive a wise reply which conferred honorary grades of Adeptus Exemptus on Westcott, Mathers, and Woodman and chartered a Golden Dawn temple consisting of the five grades outlined in the manuscripts.

Mathers sent an immediate reply, declining to provide proof, refusing to acknowledge the London temple, and dismissing Farr as his representative on March 23.

they assume such omniscient beings, those endowed with the various superhuman faculties of assuming infinitesimal size, and so on, and capable of creating everything, then we reply that the law of parsimony bids us assume only one such, namely Him, the adorable Lord.

Furthermore, a client could easily mount a denial-of-service attack on a server by sending a request and never attempting to receive the reply.

At 14: 29 he appeared on air defense radar and, after failure to reply to an IFF signal, was assigned combat number 8255.

After prime minister Kantarō Suzuki's reply to maintain silence ( mokusatsu, which was misinterpreted as a declaration that the Empire of Japan should ignore the ultimatum ), atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively.

American paratroopers also famously used a device known as a " cricket " on D-Day in place of a password system as a temporarily unique method of identification ; one metallic click given by the device in lieu of a password was to be met by two clicks in reply.

Byers apologised in the House of Commons on 17 October 2005 for having given a " factually inaccurate " reply to the Select Committee but said that he had not intended to mislead them.

Hard evidence of Cugley's abbreviation has yet to surface, though in a Usenet posting on August 18, 1990, Cugley posted a reply in which he identified himself as " The originator of the word ' retcon '.

The Caribbeans were skittled for 134 in reply and went on to lose the match, although they attacked the young leg-spinner, who took 1 / 130 in total from 36 overs.

Lincoln accepted the offer, writing ( with his Secretary of State, William H. Seward ) in reply that San Marino proved that " government founded on republican principles is capable of being so administered as to be secure and enduring.

Gauss ' reply did not comment on Germain's proof.

[...] You are in the story, you speak to the shadows ( characters ) and they reply, and instead of being on a screen, the story is all about you, and you are in it.

Another ad exhorted male readers to join the British Army, because " all the birds are gagging for squaddies " ( with the fine print on the reply coupon having a tick box where the interested recruit indicates that spending years ducking for cover in Belfast " should just about see right " when it comes to the ladies ).

When an unemployed miner ( Daniel Jones ) wrote to him to complain of his unemployment and low wages, Gladstone gave what H. C. G. Matthew has called " the classic mid-Victorian reply " on 20 October 1869:

Lord Halifax, the British foreign minister, flatly rejects peace terms in a broadcast reply on July 22.