Word: retorted
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...villain. Each set of parents has found grounds to blame the other, and as the stakes rose and the story went public, the charges got uglier. DeBoer supporters claim it was Cara's lie about the father in the first place that started the trouble. But the Schmidts' advocates retort that at the time she gave up her baby, Cara was in a fragile state, without the help of psychological counseling or legal advice. And the courts could not punish Dan for Cara's deception; he never consented to the adoption in the first place...
...would leave Serbs in control of areas that they have won by aggression and "ethnic cleansing." The U.S. also fears endless conflicts along province borders that might trap a U.N. peacekeeping force -- one perhaps including American troops -- in a cross-fire among Serbs, Muslims and Croats. Vance and Owen retort that their plan is the only one that might stop the war, and they may be right. Christopher avoided a flat no, pending an American policy review. Military intervention is opposed both by European allies and by the American Pentagon, and it seems doubtful that the U.S. can come...
That argument, prosecutors retort, is an invitation to anarchy. If a woman has survived past beatings, what persuaded her that this time was different, that she had no choice but to kill or be killed? The real catalyst, they suggest, was not her fear but her fury. Prosecutors often turn a woman's history of abuse into a motive for murder. "What some clemency advocates are really saying is that that s.o.b. deserved to die and why should she be punished for what she did," argues Dressler. Unless the killing came in the midst of a violent attack, it amounts...
...unethical, the advisers retort, to apply regulations set by the government? Says Kalman Chany, president of Campus Consultants, a Manhattan-based firm that advises families on aid strategies: "If your accountant showed you a legal way to save $4,000 on your income tax this year, would you take it?" What would really be unfair, he says, would be to deny parents information on the wisest use of the rules. "All we're trying to do is work within the system that exists now and help middle-income Americans benefit from some of their tax dollars," explains Rob Reid...
...students themselves, however, retort that accessibility, not some high-minded definition of "proper scholarship," is the goal...