LaViolette dodged a direct answer, and accused Martinez of taking her evaluation out of context.

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Sandra Layne didn't give a direct answer so the judge put the question to her again.

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Keane smiled when asked whether he had spoken with Lampard and wouldn't give a direct answer.

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In the Senate, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, avoided a direct answer to repeated questions from reporters about his response to Obama's move, deferring instead to a speech by Romney later this week at a major Latino conference in Florida.

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Mr. Clement avoided a direct answer.

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The trick is to open with a direct, brief answer to any question the reporter asks.

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On one question that has puzzled me, Eskridge had a direct and nearly irrefutable answer.

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In late July, Facebook launched the beta version of Questions, a question-and-answer product that seems to be a direct competitor of Quora.

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Mitt Romney oddly asked himself a direct question and then refused to answer it.

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Present a difficult problem, they provide a clear, direct, and preposterously simplistic answer.

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If they were asked a direct question they should have given the right answer, and they clearly didn't.

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