Sentences with phrase «only retort»

My only retort is to your last one.

Your only retort is condemning where I post the comment?

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, Netanyahu's hawkish retort not only increases the odds the US will pull out of the deal but raises the spectre of Israel taking military action against Iranian nuclear facilities.

When asked where the postcard had been all these years — and why it took almost four decades to deliver a simple postcard — a postal worker who would only be referred to as «Mr. N» maniacally retorted, «It must of have gotten....

Dawkins» retort is: «You might as well say, people vary in smelliness but we can make the comparison only by reference to a perfect maximum of conceivable smelliness.

It must be pretty frustrating to see your ambitious treatise, which only scratches the surface of the body of evidence, summarily discounted with the effortless retort, «Satan did that.»

It is with shocking and provocative passion of youth, not the impotent rage of old age, that Luther advocated the only appropriate retort to the Devil's dung: «You go eat it!»

GG runs a potion club at school — I said I didn't think her teacher would be too happy about it and she retorted «But we only get them out at break when the teachers are having lunch.

But in response, the National Campaign Coordinator for the NDC's 2016 campaign, Kofi Adams, retorted that the NPP was only fabricating such stories to tarnish the image of President Mahama.

The «framework designers» would retort that the system is not and should not be designed to be concerned about whether you are able to secure your Life; the system is only concerned whether your security of your Life is legitimate... and there is a reason for this.

12:08 - The loan guarantee scheme only covers 0.2 per cent of businesses, Cameron retorts.

Brown retorts: «They all shout, but only a few days ago the leader of the opposition himself said borrowing had to happen.

Mr Miliband said he wanted to remove the winter fuel allowance for richer pensioners and would make millions in saving «in local government, in police and elsewhere», but Mr Farage retorted that this would only amount to «peanuts».

She retorts that I should be interested only in the quality of the science and anyway, the funding body thinks that # 46 for a return train fare is more than enough to spend on me.

Adults quickly retorted with responses like «Only one?!»

Davis retorts, as only Davis can: «A woman is beautiful when she has eight hours» sleep and goes to the beauty parlor every day.

In congressional debate pro-slavery Democrat Fernando Wood declaims that to make blacks equal to white men is «an insult to natural law» — to which the powerful, acid - tongued Republican abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens, played by a well - cast Tommy Lee Jones, retorts, «Slavery is the only insult to natural law, you fatuous nincompoop.

He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort... only to find a big bear hug coming his way.

Thankfully the collector not only concurred, but covered my embarrassment, at the hackneyed phrase by retorting; «yes, but he has the wit of the Devil».

In its reactionary creation, Smile exists not only as a symbol of feminist creed, but also of satirical commentary: it is both metaphorically and literally a boomeranged retort, a proclamation of the final say.

Japanese officials retort that Japan's catch has dropped in half since 1988, registering only 6.5 million tons in 2000.

I will take more time to rip the only three sources you've ever sent me in retort.

If I had to summarize my response to Mr. Craven, I would retort «Yes, but you wouldn't pay $ 35,000 for car insurance if you only had a $ 30,000 car?»

He said something along the lines of «it's not how much you spend, but how you spend it,» and was stopped by Salbi, who retorted that that couldn't be the case, since only 1 % of funding given to developing countries was given to women.