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Defenders of the current system reply: we leave such choices to individuals to make for themselves.
Oh, they're evil, was the reply.
Russian officials reply that there can be no serious objection to such civil nuclear cooperation programs so long as the recipient country accepts the safeguards and inspection regime of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
For example, when I ask young people participating in our Scholars Program what they plan to do with their new skills, they almost always reply that after getting a job, they plan to help somebody else, by returning to their secondary schools to serve as mentors to younger students.
No funding for that, came the reply.
BDS is an “anti-apartheid” movement, comes the reply, adopting the methods and spirit of Nelson Mandela in South Africa.
Economists might reply that if you want to help people feed and educate their children, you can pay $10 for a pound of non-Fairtrade coffee that tastes the same and give the $2 you save to an aid agency that provides food and education to poor children.
That unusual but accurate formulation is reminiscent of General August Neidhardt von Gneisenau’s famous reply to the Prussian King, who dismissed as “nothing more than poetry” von Gneisenau’s patriotic concerns in the early nineteenth century.
All I have to do is click reply, find Juan’s e-mail address, add a brief comment and hit send.
Or I reply to Alice asking her to send me a paragraph or two – and lose my enthusiasm for the project.
But cold-hearted calculation, reply the economists, is exactly the point.
The optimist may reply that the pessimist’s imagination is too weak to envisage the full range of wonderful new job possibilities that automation is opening up.
"Sure I do," the driver would reply, pay the bribe, and go on.
The standard reply is that green technologies seem more expensive only because the price of fossil fuels does not reflect their climate costs.
Skeptics reply that it would be wrong to link the Iraq War to the “Arab Spring,” because events in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011 had their own origins, while President George W. Bush’s actions and rhetoric discredited, rather than advanced, the cause of democracy in the region.
In reply, Bolsonaro accused Macron of instrumentalizing an “internal” Brazilian issue, and said that for the G7 to discuss the matter without the countries of the Amazon region present was evidence of a “misplaced colonialist mindset.”
Trump’s defenders reply that soft power – what happens in the minds of others – is irrelevant; only hard power, with its military and economic instruments, matters.
Horn would need to reply that, had he needed to be rescued, other climbers would have been justified in leaving him to die as they headed to the summit.
When Trump described India’s air as “filthy” at the second presidential debate, Biden was quick to reply that he wouldn’t insult a friend that way.
Biden was unprepared for the attack and stumbled in his reply.
US President Barack Obama had warned his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, of repercussions, but an effective reply became entangled in the domestic politics of Donald Trump’s election.
This country has had enough of experts, reply progressive parliamentarians.
His reply was that the only way to understand it was to read Shakespeare.
The eurozone’s defenders will reply that it is right that countries are penalized for allowing a high proportion of public debt.
No matter, Schinas presumably would reply.
They include a procedure enabling opposition leaders to reply immediately to ministers’ speeches, dramatize differences, and demonstrate an alternative; low thresholds for establishing committees of inquiry; opposition days, when an election’s losers set the parliament’s agenda; even installing opposition figures as the chairs of important committees (where much of the real work of parliaments gets done).
What was said in the past is often the best reply to renewed claims in favor of socialism.
This time Levin did not reply, not because he did not wish to enter upon a discussion with a priest, but because no one had ever yet put such questions to him; and also because, before his little one could begin asking such questions, there would be plenty of time to consider what the answers should be.
And you, Dolly?'Dolly, who was standing near, heard, but did not reply.
But had he, and those who understood the matter in the 'right' way, been asked what this understanding amounted to, they would have been much puzzled how to reply.
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