| She did not speak unless spoken to, and even then her answers were short and non-committal. |
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| If he feels he's facing an uninterested or hostile audience, he will be vague, non-committal and withdrawn. |
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| The party, though, was non-committal on restoring the wages and benefits of the hospital workers. |
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| Asked what has changed since then, O'Neill's non-committal response spoke volumes. |
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| The verdict from Monash University chair of linguistics Kate Burridge is that the apparently non-committal expression will stick around. |
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| Even after months of debate, the statement was vague and perplexingly non-committal on whether war would be justified. |
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| According to the report, Lord Paul was, however, non-committal on whether he would invest in Punjab. |
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| Furthermore, the process remains non-committal, and disconnected from financial implications. |
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| Others were non-committal about the idea of supporting a tribunal into an operation that was once acclaimed within the republican movement. |
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| As for the prospect of possibly being the one team who can break the Southerns vs Western Province final deadlock, Fulton was non-committal. |
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| I am against warning labels applied indiscriminately, as I consider it non-committal, as well as falling outside the EU's competence. |
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| In practice, this method is apparently too non-committal and is also not very well-defined. |
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| I support the initiative for a European Year, but I find it all too non-committal and too devoid of implications in the field of social policy. |
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| He was non-committal about the bylaw banning windscreen washers. |
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| If we take that into account, we can no longer debate in a non-committal way on the Union's development policy. |
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| The paper took the same non-committal approach to the other privacy law issues it examined. |
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| I made a non-committal noise that was supposed to indicate I would have quite liked a change of subject. |
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| Most of them, I believe, are altogether vaguer, more non-committal, not so much insisting on the reality of heaven as refusing to believe in the finality of death. |
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| Lau was non-committal when asked whether he was being boycotted by the group, but agreed that reconciliation with the central government was a touchy issue. |
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| While they agree it needs to be fixed, they remain non-committal on when. |
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| Mr Brennan said he was aware of this, but he remained non-committal. |
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| This will encourage a non-committal attitude and will certainly do nothing to increase transparency from the citizens' perspective. |
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| All information and content on the Dräger websites and in the Dräger Safety Newsletters is non-committal, in particular the instructions for use. |
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| I write to the minister to ask for support for the bill and I get a non-committal letter back saying how interesting it will be to hear the debate. |
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| There we saw a range of options, from relatively ontologically non-committal theories, to theories requiring highly specific ontologies. |
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| Luckily, Mrs De Keyser supports the appeals I made in my report last year to make the human rights dialogue with partner countries less non-committal and structure it more effectively. |
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| She is cautious, non-committal and evasive. |
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| However, I took the risk of putting a hand close to a yowling muzzle and was greeted with a cold nose and a non-committal snuffle before the full-on baying started again. |
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| So far there have only been proposals for non-committal 'papers', inconsequential documents on which everyone can agree. |
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| According to the Taliban source, the Afghan was non-committal. |
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| A plain no' would be rather perfunctory and, to tell the truth, rather depressing, but I would not be sincere in responding with a categorical yes' either, even if a not a non-committal Normandy man. |
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| Jim Lewis, head of the firm's non-ferrous metals division, is non-committal about the possibility. |
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| The Japanese, however, were non-committal. |
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| I wish to remain non-committal, and I trust that the wording of the proposal for a regulation, based on a text already adopted in the Klaß report, is non-committal. |
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| Cold Weather is a likeable, and evidently personal, genre variant, but even compared to the introverted severities of Meek's Cutoff, it seems non-committal. |
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| It is no longer enough to exchange more or less non-committal opinions. |
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| Switzerland and France are a little more non-committal, although in France the lack of a definitive account is likely to be viewed as an indication that the actual facts of the case are to be kept secret. |
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| Others were non-committal, unwilling to forecast that far ahead. |
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| Will the hon. gentleman acknowledge the corn? He does not do it. He is non-committal. |
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