British vessels could anchor in those spaces and engage the French without reply.

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 ).

His actions alienated the French Section of the Workers ' International ( SFIO ) socialist party, from which he definitively broke in his notable reply in the Chamber to Jean Jaurès, leader of the SFIO, in June 1906.

His Défense du système de guerre moderne, a reply to his many critics ( Neuchâtel, 1779 ) is a reasoned and scientific defence of the Prussian method of tactics, which formed the basis of his work when in 1775 he began to co-operate with the count de St Germain in a series of much-needed and successful reforms in the French army.

Duchess Laura was not initially forthcoming with a reply to Peterborough's proposal, hoping, according to the French ambassador, for a " grander " match with the eleven-year-old Charles II of Spain.

While in opposition, he devoted special attention to naval affairs, and in noted speeches he declared that the function of the French navy was to secure and develop colonial enterprise, deprecated all attempts to rival the British fleet, and advocated the construction of commerce destroyers as France's best reply to England.

Meanwhile, Mackintosh was soon absorbed in the question of the time ; and in April 1791, after long meditation, he published his Vindiciae Gallicae, a reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution.

Napoleon's mean-spirited reply to her letter was the condemnation of the whole edition of her book ( ten thousand copies ) as not French, and her own exile from the country.

Rumours that it was then translated into French were taken seriously by some: however, not by Voltaire who issued a satirical reply.

His principal labours in literature consisted of a reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution ( 1790 ) and an Essay on the rights of juries ( 1792 ), and he long meditated the compilation of a digest of the statutes.

The French embassy found Yeh's reply to be evasive, derisory and a formal refusal of French demands.

He was asked whether it was hard being a racing cyclist ; his reply was that being a French farmer was harder.

The reply of Alexander, who expressed his surprise at the desire of France to keep the intervention wholly French, was to offer to march 150, 000 Russians through Germany to Piedmont, where they could be held ready to act against any Jacobins, whether in Spain or France.

According to a reply of the French Minister of Justice to a parliamentary question a marriage performed abroad between two persons of the same sex both of which are nationals of countries allowing same-sex marriage, could be recognized in France.

In reply to Boyce, Windschuttle argues that Boyce could not have read the whole book, or even properly checked the index, which cited ' this very evidence ', i. e. the journals of early French and British explorers.

" was his reply to the French orders to retreat his company.

He was made Chamberlain of the Royal Household in 1399, and on 30 September that year was appointed Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports ( dated by the parliamentary returns for the Cinque Ports he made in reply to the writ dated 30 September ), thus becoming effectively the guardian of the English Channel, which was threatened by invasion from the French King.

Textes, 1885 ), it is a very spirited reply to French authors who had attacked the English.

Thiébault asked “ Do you want to kill yourself ?” which prompted the famous reply from Lasalle: “ My friend, any hussar who does not die by thirty is a blackguard and I ’ ve arranged not to die this year .” At Napoleon ’ s table Lasalle wrote the lyrics to the famous French drinking song “ Fanchon .” On 17 January 1801 he commanded the cavalry at the Battle of Vilnadella and had three horses killed under him and broke seven swords on the enemy.

Like the French, this is also considered to be a solid reply, but Black will often need to surrender control over the center ( e. g., after 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Black usually plays 3 ... dxe4 ).

On June 26, 1866, Albert shifted his headquarters back to Verona, because he was concerned about a possible French reply to an Austrian invasion of Lombardy.

Later he travelled to Europe, particularly Paris, France where he started to spread his philosophy ( it is in this period he supposedly adopted his new pen name " Ohsawa ", after the French " oh, ça va " which means " all right " or " I'm doing fine " as a reply to the question " how are you doing ?").

On 23 December Stephens dispatched Joseph Denieffe to America with his reply which was disguised as a business letter, and dated and addressed from Paris.

Mongke dispatched a Chinese messenger to congratulate for his victory in reply.

Shortly after, in April 1076, bishops and abbots of the philo-imperial Transpadine party convened at Pavia under the presidency of Guibert and proclaimed the excommunication of Gregory VII ; a messenger, bearing a caustic personal letter from Henry, was dispatched with the Pavian reply to the pope.

Lee received the reply within an hour and dispatched an aide, Charles Marshall, to find a suitable location for the occasion.

* Reply endpoint -- the endpoint to which reply messages should be dispatched ( EPR )

Colonel Andrew was informed that he could withdraw if he wished, with the famous reply " Well, if you must, you must ," but that two companies ( A Company, 23 Battalion and B Company, 28 ( Māori ) Battalion ) were being sent to reinforce 22 Battalion.

Biandrata ultimately conformed to the Catholic Church ; hence Sozzini's laudatory dedication to him ( 1584 ) of his De Jesu Christi natura, in reply to the Calvinist Andrew Wolan, though printed in his works, was not used.

His alleged half-brother Andrew Colvile published a reply citing his father's denial of paternity and later threatened to sue the paper it published any further slanders.

" John Stevens made an open reply to Andrew Fuller's book by writing an entire book addressing Andrew Fuller's statements.

In reply, England quickly overcame the deficit for the loss of just Andrew Strauss, the only English batter who averaged less than 80 in this Test series.

A closer examination of Draper's emailed reply shows the plot was far more advanced, with Draper knowing that the controversial Red Rag blogsite had already been set up and offering to sort out the technology with trade union official Andrew Dodgshon.

We cannot therefore reject the role of mediator ; we have to pass on the British proposal to Vienna for consideration, especially since London and Paris are continuously using their influence on St. Petersburg .” In passing on Grey ’ s message, Bethmann-Hollweg deleted the last line which read: ” Also, the whole world here is convinced, and I hear from my colleagues that the key to the situation lies in Berlin, and that if Berlin seriously wants peace, it will prevent Vienna from following a foolhardy policy .” In his reply to London, Bethmann-Hollweg pretended that: “ We have immediately initiated mediation in Vienna in the sense desired by Sir Edward Grey .” Jagow sent Grey ’ s offer to Tschirschky, his ambassador in Vienna, but ordered him to not show it to any Austrian official in case they might accept it.

In addressing Congress the next day, President Roosevelt said, " Indeed, one hour after Japanese squadrons had commenced bombing in Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to the Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message.

The reply of Baichu was in accordance with that of Güyük, but it was accompanied by two Mongolian envoys to the Papal seat in Lyon, Aïbeg and Serkis.

" In a reply to Ayub Khan, Elst says that he has been critical of the Sangh Parivar in his writings.

" Koenraad Elst -- Sangh Parivar's Apologist " by A. Khan ( reply by Elst )

Sometimes the references are blatant ; in episode 18 of Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the dying Roy Fokker not only repeats the famous words of Mr. Spock from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan -- " The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few ..." but adds Captain Kirk's reply -- " or the one ".

In reply, India had fallen to 8 / 143 before Kartik chipped in with an unbeaten 21 from 34 balls in an unbroken 52-run stand with Zaheer Khan, guiding India to a two-wicket victory.

In 1961 Ayub Khan sent a formal note to China, there was no reply.