Sentences with phrase «last riposte»

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Last week's terrific result away to Manchester United − the defending champions − was the perfect riposte to the 3 - 1 loss at Eastlands, with Alan Pardew's men battling to a 1 - 1 draw at Old Trafford courtesy of some typically spirited rearguard action, as well as some inspired keeping from Tim Krul.

Osborne's fuel duty commitment follows intense backbench pressure and is his riposte to the promise last week by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, to freeze electricity prices for 20 months after the 2015 election.

New York's 29 Democratic electors may have been heartbroken while casting their votes for Hillary Clinton after her bruising loss to Donald Trump last month, but they made sure to send a final riposte to the president - elect's anti-immigrant rhetoric — by donating their Electoral College salaries, a total of $ 435, to a prominent immigrant policy and advocacy organization.

The release of solid policy details is being treated as a direct riposte to Labour claims that the Tories have «no substance», and a defensive manoeuvre against Gordon Brown's detailed and policy - filled conference speech last week.

There was a riposte to Pope's optimistic «Nature and Nature's Laws lay hid in night God said «Let Newton be» and all was light» which went: «It did not last — the Devil howling «Ho!