Sentences with phrase «riposte for»

JS Mill's description of Conservatives as inherently dimwitted and irredeemably nasty is a favourite default, copy and paste, kneejerk riposte for the progressively smug and English «nationalism» is, clearly, seen as both dimwitted and nasty.

Overture to football's opera, Hurricane to Ezzard the Blizzard, Investment in the sea, Exams for the men in stripes, Packaged riposte for golfers, The Dutch seals

When people try to go a bridge too far, as readers often do, all it does is generate easy ripostes for critics of this site.

Not exact matches

Cowen's latest work of pop economics is a bracing riposte to the locavore likes of Michael Pollan and others who blame commercialization and agribusiness for the miserable state of North American cuisine.

A Russian riposte came on April 10, when authorities confiscated Kazakhstani dairy products, watermelons and beets for supposedly failing to meet «quality and safety standards,» according to Rospotrebnadzor, Moscow's food safety and consumer rights service.

King has occasionally compared himself to Theodore Dreiser and Frank Norris, two turn - of - the - century social realists who specialized in urban miseries and workmanlike prose, and he loves to quote Norris» riposte to critics: «What should I care if they single me out for sneers and laughter?

So with the ignominy of a 4 - 0 shutout in the morning, and stewing as the home crowd got so much to cheer for, McIlroy went out in the anchor match of afternoon fourball and proceeded to provide an emphatic riposte.

General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has fired a sharp riposte at the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for claiming Justice Yaw Apau was appointed to the Supreme Court because he did a «hatchet» job for the government on Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo.

A few days ago, Alexander Ewing posted a «firm riposte» to my blog which criticised Romney and his entourage for their neo-con leanings.

But we can also look forward to a Red Tory riposte, as Mr Blond tweeted this about 3 pm today: «I will give a riposte to the rather sanguine and a historical stuff on next left - right after I have finished my speech for tonight...» I struggle with how the particular facts cited on eg working hours or racism can be «ahistorical», but look forward to finding out...

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.

Hats off to Elizabeth Truss for her riposte to the collection of early years specialists, academics and pundits who have tried yet again to persuade us that the root cause of educational failure is too early a start to school.

Our latest riposte to «The David & Judy Show»: http://GreatWhiteCon.info/2013/09/shock-news-why-isnt-the-arctic-ice-free/ For Lomberg et.

The Republican - led Senate's riposte to Cuomo's proposed budget laid bare some of the biggest points of contention in their education agendas — restoring cuts in school aid and the creation of a tax credit for school donations.

ALBANY — The Republican - led Senate's riposte to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget laid bare some of the biggest points of contention in their education agendas — restoring cuts in school aid and the creation of a tax credit for school donations.

Plaid's riposte is that Labour has been arrogant in the run up to Wednesday's events, with Carwyn Jones offering nothing clear on his plans for government.

But for each attack Bohr had a ready riposte.

But in previous ripostes to the book's critics, most notably in a 19 June Huffington Post article titled «Five Critics Say You Shouldn't Read This «Dangerous» Book,» Wade charged that his critics were «indoctrinated in the social - science creed that prohibits any role for evolution in human affairs» and contended that the book's central argument «has not been challenged by any serious scientist.»

The scientific study of the nature, origin and fate of the Universe — not a bad riposte to that perennial dinner - party question: «So what do you do for a living?»

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For example, on occasion one machine will indicate, in a roundabout sort of way, that he opposes the continuation of human life on Earth, whereupon the other machine will come back with a pithy riposte.

And when she tells him that she has prayed for him, his riposte is «Well, it didn't fucking work!»

This isn't the best time for customers to start defecting to another vigorous salesman, but that's the essence of At Any Price, a refreshingly detailed riposte to pastoral amity.

A densely woven web of compelling character studies and larger systemic concerns, Villeneuve and screenwriter Taylor Sheridan's bleaker, more jaundiced riposte to Steven Soderbergh's 2000 «Traffic» may prove too grim and grisly for some audiences and too morally ambiguous for others.

A sly and witty riposte, one that is perspicuously expressed and delivered, is an art long lost, its true, but not one that can not be over time acquired as an essential skill, especially for teachers.

For those who accuse the British - based manufacturer of looking to the past to influence its future, this image is a striking riposte.

Ford wasn't going to keep the ponycar revival to itself for long, and here's the Chrysler Group's riposte, as revealed at Detroit.

The new Vanquish S provides a riposte, the main thrust of which is an additional 60 hp for its superb 5.9 - liter V - 12 (now 520 hp to the DB9 «s 450).

Escher's core product, Riposte, provides a solution for postal authorities seeking to counteract a decrease in traditional mail volume by widening their service offering, reducing cost and increasing efficiency.

Blocking an attack is as simple as holding down the correct button, but to launch a counter-attack (riposte) requires very precise timing, and therefore an eye for enemy attack patterns as well.

The animations for backtabs, parries, and ripostes all mirror those of Dark Souls, but the pace of fights is definitely faster (Not Bloodborne fast, mind you; you'll still have your shield up while you roll through attacks in many instances).

Pocaro writes that «is a stinging riposte to the kind of contemporary abstract painting that merely serves as «a placeholder for value» and «needs to get out of the way.»

For example, the exhibit's third section, «The Entry of the Imagists Into Chicago, 1966 - 1976,» may be dominated by the Hairy Who and their acolytes — it's named after Roger Brown's The Entry of Christ Into Chicago, a comic riposte to early expressionist James Ensor's The Entry of Christ Into Brussels (Brown has Christ parading down Michigan Avenue on a flatbed truck)-- but that's only part of the segment's story.

might be the sensible riposte considering that, for the billions of visitors to Tate Modern every year, the work of the previous year's winner, Mark Leckey, would most certainly be recognizable as art.

A tender, melancholic riposte to David Hockney's hedonistic pictures of swimming pools of the Sixties and Seventies, Melanie and Me Swimming is, for many people, the only work by Andrews that will be familiar.

The color fields are shot through with fragments of text (the character for «fire» is among the few that are decipherable), misshapen ripostes to his family tradition of orderly calligraphy that place this free spirit on the same stage as de Kooning, one of Abstract Expressionism's most vibrant rebels.

John A: It is OK for a riposte, but I seriously think it is important to strive to present as balanced a perspective as possible.

The reason for the «boiling water» riposte was simply that reliable electricity is what our society relies on.

The swords of Zoro: thrust, parry, riposte and voila, a graph, a trend in temperatures worthy of fighting for.

It is widely believed he is holding back publication as a riposte to any Labour proposal for a Bill of Rights.

In a blistering 19 - page riposte to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) consultation, Court fees: proposals for reform, published in December, the senior judiciary said the proposals were based on «inadequate» evidence and misconceptions, and would adversely affect access to justice.

It seems that many MPs were shamed into voting for true hybrids by their truly pathetic inability to give the riposte that any first year medical student would give — and which indeed formed the basis of the pro-hybrid lobby's original insistence that there was nothing offensive about «cybrids».

Montreal - based Riposte Game & Co, says that the game has also been optimized for the iPhone X's unique edge - to - edge notched display.

I riposted thusly: «Thanks for your reply.