Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move left Bill Clinton fumbling for an effective retort just when he had adopted stern new measures himself. He had persuaded the United Nations to harden sanctions against Haiti's outlaw regime. He had announced a new asylum policy that would end the unpopular practice of forcibly repatriating Haitian refugees without a hearing. He had appointed William Gray III, head of the United Negro College Fund, as Washington's new Haiti czar. Now he dangled threats of a military invasion of the island nation...
...erupted. "Injustice! We are the victims!" shouted Mohammad Salameh, one of the four men on trial, pointing at the jury and pounding his fist on the table. "Allah-Akbar ((God is great))!" shouted the other defendants. "Al-Nasr lil-Islam ((Victory to Islam))!" And from the gallery came a retort New Yorkers in the court could understand. Cried the brother of defendant Nidal Ayyad: "You are all f---ing liars! My brother is innocent...
...Israeli government's response to such incidents has been almost nonexistant. Its most usual retort is to reassert that the Israeli armed forces have full authority for the security of the region. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, on his recent visit to Harvard, reiterated that Palestinians cannot be trusted with issues of security and that Israel should be responsible for the protection of Israelis as well as Palestinians...
...Nathan E. Lump '96, who says he's trying to "break the B+ barrier." Mourns Michael B. Smith '97, "It's so darn close to an A." Some even refuse to discuss the issue. Just ask Iris Y. Carrillo '96 to say something about the B+. "No," she'll retort. "It depresses me." Others tell stories of near tragedy. "A friend of mine got a B+ on an essay, and he was almost suicidal," says Hanna M. Pasula '96. "I thought he was overreacting slightly...
Sullivan began by arguing on Mansfield's own terms: the field of natural law. Sullivan noted that natural law looks to nature for guidance on what is good. Arguing that for some people homosexuality was natural, Sullivan questioned how it could then be morally wrong. He addressed an obvious retort to this assertion by distinguishing between homosexuality and other natural, but certainly undesirable, conditions, such as epilepsy and alcoholism...