Sentences with phrase «retort when»

When I was a kid, we had a ready retort when people got too personal with their questions or otherwise crossed the line into private territory.

Once work gets on a site that loses the link back and credit, there is no way anyone can claim it helps the copyright owner get exposure, but that is often the retort when we complain, that we don't recognize the value of «exposure.»

Why did you come back with a retort when you can't get NIMH's to admit that belief in God is a disorder?

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'» With a playful smile, I retorted, «probably when you're dead.»

Usually when I say, «Hi, this is Richard Branson,» I get a warm reception — though one New Yorker retorted, «Yeah, right, and I'm the Dalai Lama.»

When Conway compared his former boss's plot to «me asking if I could buy your dog so I can go out back and shoot it,» Ellison was quick to issue a cutting retort.

When they said, «This is just the beginning, so give us a great deal on this one and then we'll pay full price on the future stuff,» I retorted with, «Boy, multiple opportunities sounds wonderful, and we'd be very excited about that — so excited, that if you pay full price for the first one, I'll give you increasing discounts on the following projects.»

This time the response came from the audience instead of Spady, when several people retorted that revenues are not profits.

My community is full of professional artists and musicians, and when I suggest we compensate them for their work, the most common retort from my co-workers is, «Well, where do we stop?»

When someone rejects us, we retort that we didn't care anyways.

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....

As I wrote, you can't use reason or logic, based on EVIDENCE when conversing with people who will use the word «faith» as a retort, or counter point.

When she is invited to speak at places like Princeton and people try to argue that it makes little difference that Camden spends $ 4,000 and Princeton $ 8,000 per student, she retorts, «If you don't believe that money makes a difference, let your children go to school in Camden.

We used to sing it and jump around and wave our hands because it was a song about the passage of Scripture when David dances wildly before the Lord and his wife shames him for it but he retorts that he'll become even more undignified in his worship.

you have won the argument when their entire retort consists of name calling.

When some Korean theologians spoke of «reaching the unreached», Bishop Victor Premasagar, then Moderator of the Church of South India, retorted, «This language of reaching the unreached sounds like God is fast asleep, and we are running around like busy bodies.

Something similar happened to President Obama in 2013 when he was rebuffed after lecturing the President of Senegal, who retorted that his nation had the authority to govern itself.

And when Watson observes that «there is no such thing as a pure description of a neutral object,» Barr retorts: «How amazingly original a thought!

When Jesus was criticized for the company he kept, he retorted, with caustic irony.

So when one Christian accuses a church leader of doing something evil or wrong, the pastor often feels justified in retorting the same way Jesus did, and accuses his accusers of committing a sin against the Holy Spirit.

When Fosdick informed Rockefeller that he did not want to be known as pastor to the richest man in the country, he found his comeuppance in Rockefeller's retort: «Do you think that more people will criticize you on account of my wealth than will criticize me on account of your theology?»

When family members pushed my buttons I was quick with old retorts.

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When parents respond to kids» back talk with retorts of their own, they are inadvertently saying that this is an acceptable way to handle conflict.

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.

Rumour has it that, when the book was mentioned at a senior party strategy meeting on the economic crisis last October, Cameron retorted that he did not need to be briefed on it: «I did get a first, you know.»

Asked when they should open, he retorted: «Last year.»

When the issue was reported to the NPP Deputy General Secretary, Sam Payne upon his arrival at the scene, he retorted that, «no one asked him [the reporter] to come and film» and walked away.

«It's a perfect Cuomo response because when faced with a logical argument, he has no logical retort.

When I suggested Cuomo is going to spend big money trying to tie his Republican opponent to the unpopular president, Cox retorted: «It's not going to work.

retort that made the rounds during the Iraq War, when anyone who questioned the conflict — today widely viewed as an unnecessary and costly adventure — was subject to having their patriotism questioned.

It would be recalled when President John Mills took office in 2009, and in five months he accused the outgone Kufuor administration of emptying the State's coffers, Nana Akufo - Addo, then a defeated presidential candidate of the NPP, retorted «if it is broke as you alleged, then fix it.»

He was very wise when they used the back door to make him Journalist of the Year, he was very wise» a livid Anyidoho retorted on Radio Gold».

The NDC deputy General Secretary retorted, «When they prevented people like Kwesi Pratt from appearing on GTV programmes, stop NDC from appearing on Radio Ghana programmes, state media like Graphic and Times will not cover pro-NDC events that is what we call abuse of incumbency.»

And to add insult to injury, when the incident was reported to the NPP's Deputy General Secretary, Sam Payne, upon his arrival at the scene, he retorted that, «no one asked him [the reporter] to come and film» and walked away.

At a very private meeting somewhere in the State of Pennsylvania in the United States in the months leading to the 2015 elections, one of the leading lights of the Bourdillon gang, when questioned as to the rationale for opposing the National Conference had retorted, probably without thinking of the implication of his response, «We just want political power in the next election.»

It said, «When the team expressed delight at the much improved health of the President, he retorted: «I feel I could go home, but the doctors are in charge.

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.

And besides, when I asked Lars if I could join his lab, his retort was, «Get your own lab!»

When confronted with the difficulties of space exploration, oceanographers tend to have a snappy retort.

A typical retort I hear when I mention the muscularity of the rings gymnasts is something like this: «Yeah, but they've been doing those exercises for 10 years!»

She hilariously retorted that people seemed to think she was miserable around her children because she had a condition called the «Bitchy Resting Face», wherein when caught off - guard and unsmiling, she looked like she was on the verge of killing someone.

Later, when Marjane confronts the kid to sanctimoniously offer her forgiveness, he retorts that his dad is great because he's killed communists and communists are evil — so much for forgiveness as an easy solution.

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.

Arrogant beyond measure, brilliant beyond measure; when Jobs rails at subordinates about how they had two weeks longer to finish a project than God took to create the universe, one retorts, «Yes, you'll have to tell us how you did it sometime.»

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

«Yeah, when white people see me coming into a store, they run,» Kurt retorts.

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.

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.»