Translation of "Eine ausweichende antwort" in English

That's an evasive answer, Mike.

She certainly did not give the Council as an excuse, but I did not get any answer.

So he gave an evasive answer to John’s disciples.

This was proclaimed at the time "an evasive answer."

What you gave us today, Commissioner, was an evasive answer.

You have been asked about this before and you have been evasive every time.

I look to the Commission for a clear answer here, not prevarication.

His answer was evasive.

Some time ago I put a question to the Commission on protecting the euro from counterfeiting, but only received a rather evasive answer.

From my own experience in raising issues with the Commission, I either get an answer that is evasive, or am simply told that the question is not within its competence.

I put the same question to the Commission and Commissioner Bjerregaard yesterday, and I got an evasive answer from her.

Our motion for a resolution is therefore very brief, perhaps brutally so, but at least it has no frills, our hope being that an answer that is not evasive will be immediately forthcoming.

But if one has received an evasive answer to the previously asked question as to whether the purchase decision can be made on that day, sellers may under no circumstances name their last price.

If you get a tepid reply (or worse, a response that turns you off), it’s time to look elsewhere for influencers to represent your company.

Though it hurt him, gazing into the frank, earnest face. of his fellow countryman, he replied inconsequentially on the state of the trail.

In this parable I compared the Kingdom of Heaven, or the Father in Heaven, with a king who sent invitations to the feast for his son to friends and acquaintances, but received everywhere evasive or negative replies.

Only Mahal asked Agla a couple of times about Waltar, but always received an evasive answer and thus was left in the dark about it.

They always speak of love, as such was to be taken from the truly wise speech of the Greek; but if one asks such a miracle-worker about something, he always gives you only an evasive answer and becomes as coarse as a stubble-field!

Whoever asks an Egyptian (and it is an Egyptian newspaper seller in the Salzkammergut) about this city, will get a negative response, for a long time Assiut was considered to be the centre of the fundamentalists and is still identified with the origin of the assassins of President Anwar el Sadat.

He therefore gave an evasive answer: "Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind recover their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, the poor are hearing the good news - and happy is the man who does not find me a stumbling-block." (Matthew 11: 5-6) He says only that the miracles foretold in prophecy seem to be coming true.

Fortunately, Angelo was satisfied with an evasive answer.

One day Hind, Utbah's daughter happened to see her packing and asked whether she was leaving for Medina. Lady Zaynab was unsure whether to trust Hind, so she replied with an evasive answer even though Hind offered to give her money as well as provisions for the journey.