Sentences with phrase «retort by»

A common retort by the industry is that rates of the health outcome studied - whether it's asthma or preterm birth - are lower in fracking areas than in areas without fracking, or that the rate of the outcome is decreasing over time.

Boos from the cadets followed my further pessimisms, along with truculent retorts by the panelist who was a teacher at the school.

Microwave Assisted Thermal Sterilization improves on retorting by minimizing time - temperature requirements to produce healthier foods and cleaner labels.

Cameron retorts by quoting Burnham in the Statesman.

This stereotype of his legacy is now retorted by Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, in which Oldman plays George Smiley, a quiet ex-spy who is assigned to find a mole within the British -LSB-...]

In this day and age, the joke is really on the perpetrator of such a notion for sheer ignorance, but in the peculiar world that Identity Thief inhabits, being called Sandy as a male apparently requires snide retorts by nearly every character who hears the name.

An 1000 - word dissection of what appears to be wrong with a particular analysis retorted by a five - word appeal to authority.

The husband retorts by showing her a cheque of Rs. 20 lakhs which he terms as a «Chinta ka Vaccine» which means immunity against worries.

Not exact matches

Finley has retorted that OAS is but one of many federal programs that will be ravaged by demographics.

The Obama campaign retorts that a mandate won't do much good either unless it comes with enforcement mechanisms — something that neither Clinton nor Edwards offered to detail until, as NPR's Julie Rovner points out, criticized by Obama.

This prompted Chinese officials to counter U.S. attempts to blame it for running a trade surplus by retorting that U.S. financial aggression «risked bringing mutual destruction upon the great economic powers.»

And of course you're in the unenviable position of having to sort out all this nonsense by offering a well - reasoned retort that causes all parties to stop and think for a moment, thereby defusing a potential social media meltdown.

She applauded Stewart's retort to Huckabee regarding «biblical marriage» by pointing out the polygamy that was prevalent in times past.

By contrast, Cicero retorts that the Roman people inhabit a different, more comfortable ethical world where duties are understood in relation to a realistic assessment of occasions and situations.

On the other hand, Erwin Chargaff, retired biochemist at Columbia University and an outspoken opponent of the research, says that «anyone affirming immediate disaster is a charlatan, but anyone denying the possibility of its occurring is an even greater one» (quoted in «Recombinant DNA: The Argument Shifts,» by Tabith M. Powledge, the Hastings Center Retort [April 1977], p. 19).

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.

They are too serious and searching to be disposed of by any quick retort.

«Then,» Jesus retorted, «neither will I tell you by what authority I act.»

«Prove it's not true» is a tired retort used by people who don't understand things like evidence, probability or critical thinking.

My original statement was Xtians are atheists... you come on and take one type of Xtian (Unitarians) and apply that as a retort to my statement Again I stand by my original statement

Jesus» retort to the devil is a good place to begin: He [God] humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live by bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God....

By combining a thermal treatment with the HPP process, most of the HPP benefits relating to shelf - life and quality can be retained (compared to retorting and canning), with the additional benefit of inactivating the toxic bacterium Clostridium botulinum.

Not saying we should have won the league this year by any means, but we definitely should've been challenging (hilarious if anyone wants to retort and say we are).

Every comment from positive fans (it can be seen on this article) is greeted by some inane, childish retort slagging the blogger, the team etc..

Stone Hawthorne did her part by channeling her dry and sarcastic nature into formulating a retort to all the sanctimony.

The explanation by Mr. Debrah is «comical», retorted the Minority leader.

Asked specifically about his reaction to his former boss» scepticism about list presented by the EC to the Supreme Court, Mr Addams retorted: «Look, the former First Lady has made a lot of statements that are also untrue.

Founder and Leader of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Akwasi Addai Odike has retorted to the NPP's claim that his party is being sponsored by the incumbent NDC.

Akande retorted: «Interpreting reasonable and regular communication between the acting president and the president as teleguiding of one by the other is simply curious in the least or perhaps pure mischief.

Schoenberger retorted, «For someone who is both a lawyer and a former judge I am shocked by his lack of knowledge for the law.

Mike Murphy, a Democratic spokesman, retorted on Twitter by calling Peralta sad and hypocritical: «I'm old enough to remember when Senator Peralta supported and even put up his own hostile amendments.»

When Clementine Churchill tried to comfort her husband after his trouncing at the polls in 1945 by telling him it was perhaps a blessing in disguise, the great war leader retorted that it was a very effective disguise.

Additionally, assuming all that, she still somehow spends an inordinate amount of time with her «hubs,» as evidenced by this somewhat angry retort to what she perceived to be - perhaps correctly so - a condescending post:

I was seething by the end of the night and biting back retorts like «Yep, I know George R.R. Martin is old — I just told you I loved his books» and «Yeah, I'm aware of Hillary's 35,000 deleted emails — I majored in political science and lived on the planet in 2016.»

Unfortunately, the bad guy is alerted by the ring, discovers the girl and sends Jordan a chilling retort to her pleads not to hurt the kid («It's already done,» he intones).

The laughs are mainly led by Mildred in her most ferocious moments or when one of Ebbing's most incompetent boys in blue, Officer Jason Dixon (Rockwell), wants to retort.

And though the script (by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt, Chad St. John and Christian Gudegast) fails to give him an unforgettably cheesy kiss - off line, his alternately brusque and sarcastic retorts continue to mark him as a serviceable descendant of John McClane.

Though there were gems spread throughout the 90 - minute program, the ratio of snappy retorts to less - than - inspired exchanges, often delivered by minor actors in oft - forgotten vehicles, wasn't favorable.

The film also features the following lines of dialogue, Tonya Harding: «Shit is a dish best served cold» followed by the straight - faced retort of Shawn Eckardt: «Revenge is a dish best served cold.

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.

The movie takes you to some dark places that I really enjoyed, but then it's ruined by a predictable jump scare followed by a poor attempt of a witty retort from the little boy.

When Archer tries to debunk her reporting by talking about American women's demand for what he helps supply, she retorts that not all women want a storybook wedding with a large diamond, just like all Africans don't kill each other.

He remembers in 2009 taking a cell phone from a student in the hallway and being stung by the student's retort: Thanks for turning school into a jail.

(This is a guest post by Pete Cook which originally appeared in his new blog, «Retort: Correcting the Record on Education Reform.»

In Downton Abbey, when Cora, Countess of Grantham, wonders whether a potential suitor for her daughter comes from an old family, her mother - in - law, played by Maggie Smith, retorts, «Older than yours, I imagine.»

When the New York Times ran a piece about Tinkers» unlikely rise to fame, Jennifer Weiner retorted on Twitter: «Indie booksellers, book bloggers congratulating themselves for getting TINKERS sales all the way to... 7,000» and «Then again, I also never thought Times would fail to review debut by guy w / Iowa degree.

«Big Pub basically runs its own monopoly over writers,» a commenter on a New York Times article retorted, and I received an email about the Amazon - Hachette clash in which the writer complained of «the impossibility of a non-NYC writer just getting his foot in the door without sleeping with professors, visiting authors, publishers; without an M.F.A.; or without publications in major magazines (100 percent of which are supplied by agents).

Not to discount Nintendo in all of this, of course, it's undoubtedly going to impress by leveraging a strong first - party line - up as per usual, but the Xbox One needs to focus on retorting its main competition.

Through some expert dramatic irony, the audience is left to witness how the two unwittingly insult each other — Celica by questioning Alm's capability to lead based on his birthright (the same question hurled at him by the pompous, antagonistic aristocracy), and Alm by retorting that the royalty of Zofia is dead, gone, and unable to lead the nation (unaware that he is speaking to a lost princess).

In addition to Peter Eleey's curatorial essay, the catalog includes contributions from Alexander Dumbadze and Robert Hullot - Kentor, as well as texts by Alexander Kluge, W. J. T. Mitchell, and Retort.