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response and sarcastic
Baudricourt's sarcastic response did not deter her.
In response to this decision, Darrow made a sarcastic comment to Judge Raulston ( as he often did throughout the trial ) on how he had been agreeable only on the prosecution's suggestions, for which he apologized the next day, keeping himself from being found in contempt of court.
The autograph score is marked " to my brothers in Apollo " and the movement may be intended as a sarcastic response to the critics of his music at the time.
Amateur biblical scholars often forget that when compared in context to the rest of the sentence ( in a Torah verse which indicates singular usage ), the Hebrew term " gods " is actually a Semitic elative meaning the one God YHWH ( see the original term in Hebrew, Elohim ); thus, Aaron's famous response to the unruly Israelites after he is forced to cast the Golden Calf could be seen as a bitterly sarcastic condemnation of their assumption of God's likeness, even after he consents to their demands.
Escape from the Newsroom, which included a fourth wall-breaking plot digression in which the characters directly addressed the idea of reviving the series, was meant partly as a sarcastic response to that request.
In response to many fans ' comments about how Lessard claimed the song was dead, Lessard posted a bulletin on his MySpace page saying that he didn't recall saying so, and he was most likely being sarcastic if he did.

response and interjection
* exclamation: An emphatic parenthetic addition that is complete in itself, exclamation differs from interjection in that it usually involves an emotional response.
* An interjection made in response to the observation of a minor mistake, usually written as " Oops!

response and about
Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.
The restrained gyro-stabilized platform with reasonable response characteristics operates with an approximate equation of motion, neglecting transient effects, as follows: Af where U is a torque applied about the output axis of the controlling gyro.
This torque causes the entire system to rotate about the **yf axis, since the response to Af.
To be sure, when this is pointed out, a common response among certain churchmen is to fulminate about `` the little flock '' and `` the great crowd '' and to take solace from Paul's castigation of the `` wisdom of the wise '' in the opening chapter of First Corinthians.
" In response to an inquiry about his presidential intentions, Lincoln said, " The taste is in my mouth a little.
A cell initiates intracellular apoptotic signaling in response to a stress, which may bring about cell suicide.
Her response was, " Wait until I'm dead before you make a movie about my life !".
The time between the presentation of a stimulus and an appropriate response can indicate differences between two cognitive processes, and can indicate some things about their nature.
In 1919, the May Fourth Movement began as a response to the terms imposed on China by the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, but quickly became a protest movement about the domestic situation in China.
By not asking about the horses, Confucius demonstrates that the sage values human beings over property ; readers are led to reflect on whether their response would follow Confucius's and to pursue self-improvement if it would not have.
Partly in response to international pressures, Comorians in the 1990s have become more concerned about the environment.
In response to a question about Iran's treatment of women and homosexuals, he asserted that women are respected in Iran and that " In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country ...
In response to this Etisalat and MTN Group were launched, and by 2009 there were about 18 million mobile phone users in Afghanistan.
move seemingly had a strictly personal political motive – that is, fear and jealousy of his cousin Ptolemy – and thus the expansion was not set about in response to pressing military or economic needs.
In response to concerns about the meaning of CCM, bishops in the ELCA drafted Tucson Resolution, which presented the official ELCA position.
Rocks hotter than about 300 degrees Celsius flow in response to stress ; they do not rupture in earthquakes.
On September 20 President Obama appeared on all major news programs except Fox News, a snub partially in response to remarks about the president by commentators Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Fox coverage of Obama's health-care proposal.
The manifest purpose of the tale may primarily be one of mundane instruction regarding forest safety or secondarily a cautionary tale about the dangers of famine to large families, but its latent meaning may evoke a strong emotional response due to the widely understood themes and motifs such as “ The Terrible Mother ”, “ Death ,” and “ Atonement with the Father .”
One of the complaints about these hotlines is the response time, there is often a lag time between a property owner calling about the graffiti and the actual removal of it.
Groucho was the subject of an urban legend about a supposed response to a contestant who had nine children which supposedly brought down the house.
" In his book Graham Crackers, Chapman said that this took place just before Cleese left the show, and he wondered what the woman thought about his disappearance after getting Idle's response.
The spectral response of the SSI ranged from about 0. 4 to 1. 1 micrometres.
The response contains completion status information about the request and may also contain requested content in its message body.
A tough military response was needed to end the insurgency and bring about the establishment of an independent, multi-racial Federation of Malaya in 1957.

response and permanent
The structure was re-striped to accommodate six lanes on October 18, 1989 in response to the temporary closing of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge due to the Loma Prieta earthquake, and the permanent widening of the approaches was completed by July 2003.
His was the first permanent school in Athens and it is likely that Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum were founded in part as a response to Isocrates.
Upon the initial promotion's completion, customer response prompted Subway to create a permanent "$ 5 Footlong Everyday Value Menu " that offered some footlong sandwiches for $ 5.
The Catholic News Agency ( CNA ), in an online news story article posted by Alejandro Bermudez on Saturday, March 31, 2012, stated that, in response to a specific request made personally to Cuban President Raul Castro by Pope Benedict XVI, during his Apostolic Visitation of Leon, Mexico and the island in March of 2012, following the pattern of small advances in Church-Cuban relations, it was decreed by the Communist Party and Castro and his advisers that in 2012, Good Friday would be made a holiday, with a possibility that the move could perhaps be made permanent ( following the move of the late Pope John Paul II, who got Fidel Castro to declare Christmas Day a holiday-which is still the case-due to a personal request during his landmark trip in 1998 ).
Services by security companies typically include: permanent guarding service, security officers, manned security, disaster response, emergency services, control room monitoring, armed security, unarmed security, special event security, security patrols, reception / concierge service, access control, emergency medical technicians ( EMT ) service, ambassador service.
In criminal law, provocation is a possible defense by excuse or exculpation alleging a sudden or temporary loss of control ( a permanent loss of control is in the realm of insanity ) as a response to another's provocative conduct sufficient to justify an acquittal, a mitigated sentence or a conviction for a lesser charge.
In response, Louis XIV sought to guarantee his territorial gains of the Reunions by forcing his German neighbours into converting the Truce of Ratisbon into a permanent settlement.
The multiple origin of C < sub > 4 </ sub >- photosynthesis in Amaranthaceae is regarded as an evolutionary response to a permanent shortage in water supply in combination with high temperatures.
In response to the debate surrounding conservative attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts in 1990, Kosuth organized an exhibition entitled " A Play of the Unmentionable " focusing on issues of censorship and using works from the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
In 1994 Air Foyle won a contract to operate one Lockheed L-100 Hercules and one Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft on permanent 24 / 7 standby for Oil Spill Response Ltd, to provide immediate response on a worldwide basis in the event of a major oil spillage.
Among the reasons for this strengthening of the FSB were enhanced need for security of after increased terror attacks against Russian civilians starting from the Moscow theater hostage crisis ; the need to end the permanent infighting between the FSB, FAPSI and the Border Guards due to their overlapping functions and the need for more efficient response to migration, drug trafficking and illegal arms trading.
In response, the Legislative Council proposed to restrict the right of such persons by adding an additional requirement that one of the child's parents must have been a permanent resident at the time of the child's birth.
This alteration may, in some environments, help these Candida species by inducing a permanent stress response, a more generalized form of the heat shock response.
The creation of a matrix organization can also be considered as management's response to a persistent or permanent demand for adaptation to environmental dynamics, instead of the response to episodic demands.
Horwitz and Shemp heckled each other to a large positive response from the audience and Healy hired Shemp as a permanent part of the act.
In response to alleged vote rigging during the 1952 parliamentary elections, Misrata witnessed mass riots which contributed to the Libyan monarchy's permanent ban on political parties.
In 1951, the Local Education Authority set up a temporary school on the site in response to the early growth of the New Town, and permanent infant and junior school divisions were opened in 1952 and 1953 respectively.
Mathias was also enthusiastic to join the band on a more permanent basis as his former appearance in the band had resulted in an overwhelming response from fans and finally resulted in a record deal with Metal Blade Records.
In response, in 1956 AFSWC established the 4950th Test Group ( Nuclear ) to serve as a permanent USAF Air Task Group for atmospheric testing, replacing the 4925th Test Group ( Atomic ), which then focused on the aircraft / weapon marriage mission.
In 1992, bowing to fan pressure, DHC reunited for a one-off series of gigs, but after the positive response to their performance, the band chose to reform on a permanent basis.
In response to the threat by the Soviet Union, by the 1948 Berlin blockade, President Truman decided to realign USAFE into a permanent combat-capable force.
The group was founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 3, 1938, as a response to U. S. epidemics of polio, a condition that can leave people with permanent physical disabilities.

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