The huddle had its intended effect: to provoke ideas rather than generate firm answers.

As to why Canadians are less inclined to shop online than Americans, executives can offer few firm answers.

But when a play's title is aptly and unironically "Doubt," firm answers to troubling questions are not an unqualified blessing.

We can just now give you no firmer answer to send to your employers, we fear.

His aides had billed the speech as a significant policy address, but he raised many questions without providing firm answers to them.

Current United States copyright law does not provide firm answers addressing Internet sales that cross borders.

Sorry I cannot give you a more firm answer.

The indecision about certain works on view may disappoint visitors expecting firm answers.

"We hope to get firm answers on many of these questions," he said.

For many years I was sure I had firm answers to them.