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"riposte" Definitions
  1. a quick and clever reply, especially to criticism synonym retort
  2. a course of action that takes place in response to something that has happened

250 Sentences With "riposte"

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Detroit's riposte: Turn the truck into America's new family car.
The Florence exhibition is a scholarly riposte to those developments.
Mr Trump has offered an even more powerful riposte to that.
For once Mr Trump seemed at a loss for a riposte.
It's a holiday from the hyperbole, a respite from the riposte.
" Macron's riposte – also unveiled Wednesday – was to implore, "[Come] Together, France!
An hour later, she hit back with this fairly uncompromising riposte.
The riposte to cynicism starts with politicians who forsake outrage for hope.
It's the perfect symbolic riposte to what is happening in that region.
What is poetry if not a riposte to the forces of fallaciousness?
"Go," he cried at Friday prayers, echoing Ayatollah Khomeini's riposte to the Shah.
Alibaba's riposte was to dump almost the entirety of its shares in Meituan.
His response was a riposte to what he had said in his email.
If you get your riposte in first, the advice goes, you control the narrative.
It's an eloquent riposte to Rodin, who treated the same subject three years earlier.
Leicester's riposte to the tacit accusation that their presence was a letdown was emphatic.
The others had similar responses, but soon settled on a simple but effective riposte.
"I am struggling to see how an Iranian riposte will not occur," he said.
Shares in both fell, and the next morning, Dali rushed out a lengthy riposte.
"The clock is ticking," is a popular riposte used by EU officials during tense negotiations.
In the nationalistic mood of the moment, many Turks have even applauded Mr. Erdogan's riposte.
Bonnet's riposte on the same day was to buy a 40 percent stake in Intesa.
Though not intended as a riposte to the French president, it might as well have been.
When not prostrate and crying, Bunny can be mean, delivering a sucker punch of a riposte.
"I am not particularly good at or interested in this theatrical-riposte stuff," he told me.
There are weapons and blood, there is a riposte that no screenwriter or script doctor could improve.
Parry, riposte The stage for the next two weeks is set for more moments of one-upmanship.
Thwaites's riposte was to climb atop a quartet of sawn-off crutches and trot around the lab.
Retaliation, perhaps, and Jacksonville's riposte came in staccato bursts, one play after another in the first half.
And though she is not around now, the riposte to #MeToo should keep some of that spirit alive.
With photography gaining ground as an artform, the exhibition was a riposte to those who declared painting dead.
And it can be a direct riposte to a certain set of social and cultural values and expectations.
Andrew Wyatt, a spokesman for the defense, declined to comment Friday on Ms. Feden's riposte to Ms. Bliss.
When campaigners suggest lowering the voting age, the riposte is that 218- and 224-year-olds are too immature.
Much as others might abhor animal sacrifice, came another riposte, it cannot be called a menace to public health.
The riposte is that underdogs, after holding back their opponents for 120 minutes, deserve an even chance at glory.
But I had to offer a riposte to Shawn that, while society can be reshaped, human nature is immutable.
The new film, by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland), is the estate's implicit riposte to the first.
It has become an almost ubiquitous broadcast platform for anybody wishing to publish an event, an opinion, a riposte.
Any phrase even hinting at sexual innuendo, even a flaccid reference, compels us into jutting up a wary riposte.
G. Bertrand Goldberg's 1963 ABC-TV tower was meant as a riposte to Eero Saarinen's boxy CBS "Black Rock" Building.
Yet that riposte did not prevent Mr Le Pen reaching the second round of the French presidential election in 2002.
On February 20th Mr Corbyn issued a video riposte to the story that turned into a broadside against the press.
They are one of the most positive recent developments in American politics, a riposte to the dysfunction partisanship has caused.
On New Year's Day 1984 Paik returned to broadcasting with a riposte to the dystopian vision of George Orwell's novel.
" One halting answer was dismissed with a sly Wallace riposte: "Forgive me, it does seem a little bit like spin.
That same day, however, 10,000 pro-government supporters marched in the rain in a riposte to the yellow vest protests.
DJ Logan Sama had them made up in 2007—a purist's riposte to the fairweather friends leaving the sound behind.
" Her reminiscence prompts a similarly disturbing riposte from Jimmy, who further darkens the mood by deciding that "life is terrifying.
But at present no one knows what a given sally would earn by way of riposte, which makes deterrence disturbingly destabilising.
In its own riposte to WholeFoods and Amazon, it has started to work with grocery stores to sell their products online.
A more potent riposte could be counterclaims against American companies with assets in the EU, a possibility under EU "blocking legislation".
But now, when his offhand joke reads like prophecy, the circumstances demand more than good-natured forbearance or a witty riposte.
Progressives will undoubtedly push back, but one can bet they won't again be citing the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in riposte.
Sui's free-spirited clothes still serve as a riposte to anyone who claims American fashion is fixated on cold, clean minimalism.
In some cases this is largely innocuous and more a product of pure creativity than a riposte against real-world issues.
But it was EA's chief creative officer, Patrick Soderlund, who made the headlines with a searing riposte in an interview with Gamasutra.
Rebecca felt like she must say something but the words would not come now but would visit her later, the right riposte.
His riposte was that he would not round up votes on pension reform for a government he called "a desert of ideas".
Kadyrov himself, in a riposte on social media, invited Slepakov to travel to Chechnya and co-write a new song with him.
Moscovici said some of the goods under consideration for an EU riposte were largely produced in constituencies held by Trump's Republican party.
But the smart aleck who had a riposte for every comment online plopped down on a sofa and disappeared into her phone.
But politics ain't beanbag, and Democrats will be better off finding out if Biden has a strong riposte sooner rather than later.
The exchange, primarily over trade and tariffs, left many in Canada outraged and prompted a frosty riposte from the country's foreign minister.
The songs that follow the verse are sometimes chosen to illuminate the feeling in the words, sometimes to offer a kind of riposte.
In its eternal quest to outmaneuver Boeing in the skies, Airbus' launched its latest riposte to Boeing's successful, (if initially troubled,) 787 Dreamliner.
Whether or not he makes it onto the Supreme Court bench, the 53-year-old judge already symbolises the patriarchal riposte to #MeToo.
They used the occasion to send a message about inclusivity and a riposte to their critics, explains the blog's co-founder and writer.
For those who have argued that the 34-9 San Antonio Spurs are steady but unspectacular, Saturday should have served as a riposte.
One almighty riposte to the drum beat of bad news would be if the U.S. firm were to announce new orders of the plane.
The powerful riposte is that, to function, society relies on impartial adjudication of wrongs, especially in an era of multiculturalism, with its attendant frictions.
" In response, Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, wrote in a sharp riposte on Twitter: "America and the E.U. are best friends.
As the blonde duo aloofly ponders the perfect sky above them, the viewer gets a glimpse of something darker, a riposte to bland escapism.
And steadily, Ms. Jarvis began getting better work from more high-profile clients, including Stussy, Timberland, Sony, Vice, Riposte and The New York Times.
Diplomats said the suggestion of 1.3% was a longshot riposte to the "frugals" that the beneficiary countries knew had no chance of getting adopted.
" Bergman's ready with the cutting riposte: "I've heard that argument from numerous amorous psychiatrists who all wanted to make a better doctor of me.
"Who do you think you are, trampling all over my favorite reindeer?" says Wolfhard in the video below, before launching into a blistering riposte.
The starring role by Paul Pogba, who scored the decisive third goal on Sunday, was a riposte to critics of his contribution at Manchester United.
WeChat is the best riposte to the condescending, widely held belief that Chinese internet firms are merely imitators of Western ones, and cannot innovate themselves.
It was a riposte to the parsimonious Carter administration that had come before (Rosalynn Carter had worn an old blue dress to her inaugural ball).
The Russian-American had to quickly defend himself in a lengthy riposte unequivocally stating he was not working at the behest of the Russian government.
" CNN's public-relations team issued a blunt riposte to Mr. Trump on Thursday: "His comments are beneath the dignity of the office of the President.
Strategically, however, the move extends well beyond the noise of Boeing's spat with Bombardier and could trigger a riposte from other planemakers, including Boeing itself.
A defiant Kerr told the critics "to suck on that one" after the Brazil win, a riposte that sat uncomfortably with some media pundits at home.
Although Mr Trump rarely appears in Mr Kagan's latest book by name, it is a devastating riposte to his careless, cynical and destructive approach to diplomacy.
In a riposte, Cavusoglu called on the EU to stop defending "those who are engaging in activities with the aim of removing Turkey's democratically elected government".
Only a year ago he wrote his own beguiling memoir, "The Pigeon Tunnel", a companion piece—in some respects a riposte—to Adam Sisman's magisterial biography.
The cut-and-paste collage and lovingly hand-drawn aesthetic of the pages acts as a glorious riposte to the 2D effect of Instagram and Pinterest.
Not coincidentally, Google's calendar features are something of a riposte to competitors like Apple, Microsoft and Facebook, which have been getting into the life management business.
When Biden bragged, as he often does on the campaign trail, that Kim Jong Un called him a "rabid dog," Sanders was ready with a riposte.
After she called his criticism of Obamacare from the left "enraging and the most privileged bs," Daou tweeted an affronted riposte to his nearly 300,000 followers.
What's more, liberals have more internal disagreement than conservatives over the state of American greatness, which likely helps explain why the DNC's banal riposte proved controversial.
As a riposte, McGregor actually pinpointed Avila as a "skinny boy" when trying to fire back on the teammates front shortly after a mini face-off brawl.
Nor have department stores found a riposte to the inexpensive and on-trend offerings of H&M, a Swedish firm, or of Zara, owned by Spain's Inditex.
With one Medium riposte, Bezos has turned a tawdry tabloid scandal into a gripping, time-stamped drama stretching from scenes in the White House to Saudi Arabia.
He has since taken to telling reporters that he "is not a scientist," a sly riposte so popular among Republicans that it has its own Wikipedia page.
An Izod product — simple, classic, all-American and quintessentially normcore — it went viral seemingly in minutes: a riposte, perhaps, to the more calculated looks on the candidates.
Privileging an artefact over the liberty of the human spirit is tantamount to worshipping false gods, to which the only riposte is an act of irreversible profanation.
French President Emmanuel Macron said last May that "any use of chemical weapons would result in reprisals and an immediate riposte, at least where France is concerned".
Elsewhere he has spoken of how he wanted to make a "less important thing to look at," as a riposte to the obtrusive self-seriousness of Minimalism.
Spectacular power can similarly deny whatever it likes, once or three times over, and change the subject, knowing full well there is no danger of any riposte.
The clothes on view here, designed or modified by the artist, are a riposte to the Stieglitz photos (too many of which end up in the show).
Mr Mayer's riposte to the charge that his ideas are overly idealistic is that the current system is simply not working according to conventional measures of economic success.
"Here, at last, the profound, moving and devastating riposte to Donald Trump that many in America, and the world, had been waiting for," the Guardian's David Smith wrote.
The first post on its machine learning blog offers a small riposte, describing a method of creating synthetic images that can be used to train facial recognition systems.
AT THE UN climate summit in Bonn last November some Americans came up with their own riposte to President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris agreement.
The riposte from IOSCO is the latest standoff between securities regulators and central banks over how to regulate funds which have grown in size since the financial crisis.
But it took her a year, several speechwriters and the example of Elizabeth Warren to figure out how to riposte Donald Trump's peculiar combination of viciousness and playfulness.
Around the country, other district attorneys and Obama's Justice Department have embraced a "smart on crime" approach similar to Harris's — a data-­driven riposte to Reagan's enduring rhetoric.
I keep my laptop screen totally blank, or with some little shape made of folders in its middle—a little riposte to the very idea of workspace clutter.
This is his riposte: a chatty, informal memoir that covers his father's killing when he was just 2, and the years of hardship he and his mother endured.
Mostly because what Ms. Kawakubo showed, on a blush pink runway, in front of a blush pink scrim, was kind of a sly riposte to the red carpet.
One thunderous riposte by Bayern — a whiplash 30-yard shot by Alaba that rattled Atlético's crossbar in the second half — suggested that the wall of defense could be breached.
It was the ultimate anti-1980s, anti-Boomer scent, a riposte to the showy perfumes of the "Dynasty" and Wall Street years, including Calvin Klein's own best-selling Obsession.
"Any use of chemical weapons would results in reprisals and an immediate riposte, at least where France is concerned," Macron said in a joint news conference, according to Reuters.
Though Brooks and Wohlforth didn't intend it as such, their book is a kind of anti-Trump: a direct and devastating riposte to Trump's vision of US foreign policy.
In what seems a riposte to Yves Klein, who used naked women to make his paintings, women were taking the lead, relishing their nudity as an assertion of female power.
Dramedy "Piku", starring Deepika Padukone, also won critical applause last year -- and made $21 million worldwide, a riposte to critics who argue female-led films can't be box office hitters.
Mr. Giuliani saw the Ukraine intrigues as a perfect riposte to the criminal investigation by the special counsel, Mr. Mueller, that had cast such a shadow over Mr. Trump's presidency.
"Johnson Matthey has delivered a confident riposte to fears over its terminal growth given the diesel debate at the heart of the investment case," Morgan Stanley said in a note.
It's a dazzling picture, but Delacroix's open competition with Rubens, who was denied a riposte by virtue of being two centuries deceased, gives it the air of an elephantine bagatelle.
I'd argue that this is the open web riposte to services like IBM's Watson, which is bringing together a mountain of public and private data but under a proprietary umbrella.
Titled "Straight Outta Vagina​", it is intended as both a celebration of all that is female-presenting, and a confrontational riposte to Donald Trump's "grab them by the pussy" remarks.
But "barring any contradictory riposte from either government," companies that make the equipment that produces semiconductor chips, namely Lam Research and Applied Materials, "could get a boost" on Thursday, Cramer said.
By executing a parry and riposte on a specific part of a specific staircase, players con the game into triggering its "death camera," thanks to the physics and geometry getting screwy.
He even had a response, disingenuous though it was, to Chief Justice John Roberts's riposte that members of Congress must be "pretty happy with the way the districting has been done".
As a riposte, rationalists can use infographics and data-visualisation as a way of presenting statistics and evidence, but, Mr Davies warns, these also risk "triggering" people into knee-jerk responses.
Carl Icahn did not like it, later issuing a sharp riposte claiming to have saved thousands of jobs by taking the Taj from bankruptcy, rough as the price was on workers.
Her perceptions are so specific and accurate that you have to wonder if Nelly 2.0 is, in part, a riposte to literary scholars who have called Brontë's Nelly an unreliable narrator.
That was a riposte to Washington's stated policy of "maximum pressure" on Tehran, including punishing economic sanctions designed to block its international trade, especially in oil, on which the economy depends.
Il existe une " idéalisation de la séduction 'à la française' et cet anti-féminisme fait pratiquement partie de l'identité nationale et est vu comme une riposte à la culture anglo-américaine ".
" From the start of her career, O'Brien included material that could be read as dread fulfillment or as a riposte to a cheery friend asking, "What's the worst that could happen?
The book can been seen as a companion — and riposte — to Thomas Piketty's surprise best seller "Capital in the 21st Century," which attributes growing inequality to increased returns on accumulated wealth.
PARIS (Reuters) - The latest U.S. tariff threats on French products are "unacceptable" and the European Union is ready to issue a riposte, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday.
But his speech Tuesday afternoon was anything but conciliatory, and a fierce and immediate riposte from Salvini minutes later seemed to mark the irreparable breakdown in relations between the two erstwhile colleagues.
The CAP, a think-tank launched in 2003 as a riposte to George Bush, also released a sheaf of policies aimed at low-skilled workers, including boosts to child care and infrastructure.
And Clinton has also yet to come up with an effective riposte to assaults by Sanders on her paid speeches to Wall Street firms after she stepped down as secretary of state.
A measure of the fragility of Trump's ego is that he entered the 2016 presidential race partly as a riposte to the black president who had shamed him on a national stage.
Even France's vaunted high-speed TGV is more than a train; it is a symbol of French planning and ambition, a riposte to an American vision of individualism embodied in the automobile.
Wii Sports and the complementary Wii Fit functioned as a riposte against the generational stigma attached to games, largely dismantling the idea that video games were exclusively tied to a younger demographic.
It is Wilson's insistence that race and class are inseparable that, I think, makes his play an instructive riposte to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," to which "Fences" is often compared.
One plausible riposte would be to nominate an apparent moderate with a traditional résumé who was recently confirmed by the Senate to an appeals court, with plenty of Republican support or even unanimously.
To those who complain that the products the firm makes might encourage unmarried or gay people to fornicate—an illegal activity for both groups in Pakistan—the owner's son has a ready riposte.
A day after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin pushed the dollar to three-year lows against the euro by saying a weaker greenback was good for his country, Draghi had his riposte ready.
For American Muslims like Mr. Antepli, the speech arrived with lifesaving urgency — a perfect riposte to Mr. Trump in an election where Muslims have been, at times, portrayed as disloyal, untrustworthy and dangerous.
Cruz continued with the following devastating riposte to Trump: Back in September, my friend Donald said he had his lawyers look at this from every which way and there was no issue there.
"Europe had clearly stated its intention to riposte and enter a trade war...It's a good thing that President Trump changed his mind on the tariff increases," French government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said.
Trump had blamed his former political ally for the Iran nuclear deal in a series of derisive Twitter posts that drew a sharp riposte from Corker, who chairs the important Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The remarks were a riposte to those who say leaving the European Union will diminish Britain's influence on the global stage and force a pivot towards Trump's unorthodox and often confrontational approach to diplomacy.
The BoE's conditions on whether branches should become subsidiaries will be seen as a riposte the euro clearing plans in Brussels, which also emphasizes the need for strong supervisory cooperation to avoid forced relocation.
It underscored the United States' continued engagement in Iraq and was an implicit riposte to Iran, which has often tried to present itself to Iraqi leaders as a more consistent partner than the Americans.
We saw the cap as a riposte to the MAGA mentality, but it was also possible to see it as a reinforcement: Make Orwell fiction again by helping Trump fight Deep State surveillance, man!
In fact, that was probably the latest Iranian riposte to an intensifying campaign of American sanctions, as well as to Britain's seizure of a tanker laden with Iranian crude oil off Gibraltar on July 4th.
"Trump's riposte could be the beginning of the bargaining session, or, alternatively, a warning that the drug companies get back into line or face the wrath of the next president," the "Mad Money " host said.
His report, which he presents to the UN's Human Rights Council this month, triggered a peppery riposte from the hurriedly created Academics' Alliance for Correcting Groundless Criticisms of Japan, a group of uptight university professors.
OAKMONT, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - While soaking up perhaps the greatest pressure he has ever experienced, Dustin Johnson delivered a perfect riposte to criticism of his major credentials with a drama-laden U.S. Open victory on Sunday.
Riposte Capital LLC, which has a 2.5 percent stake in the company, said Hexo needs to step up efforts to lower the cost of capital to take advantage of the growth in Canada's cannabis sector.
Hamilton had been gunning for a seventh pole in a row on Saturday but, under the Sakhir floodlights, Bottas produced the perfect riposte by beating him to it by a mere 0.023 of a second.
In the question-and-answer period, Dr. Anversa's colleague and collaborator, Dr. Bernardo Nadal-Ginard, took the microphone to offer a withering riposte to Dr. Murry "I love Plácido Domingo," Dr. Nadal-Ginard recalled saying.
His save against Alex Tuch late in Game 21 — or rather the Save, as it has come to be called around these parts — issued a crackling riposte to Fleury's dominance through the first three rounds.
In a rare political riposte, Senator Elizabeth Warren on Monday released an analysis of her DNA indicating that she has a Native American ancestor, likely between six and 10 generations back in her family history.
But the maneuvers follow similar exercises held last year by China and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations in an undisputed area of the sea, making them a riposte of sorts to Beijing.
RELATED: Trump, Stormy Daniels in Twitter spat after lawsuit dismissal If Trump -- or anyone -- was hoping that might be the end of it, Daniel's riposte to the President made clear the anatomical feud would continue.
A fighting career defined by stirring comeback victories over the likes of Pete Sell and Cung Le, triumph on Saturday night could well prove to be the biggest riposte of them all for Scott Smith.
Mr Rajoy's riposte was that Mr Puigdemont only ever wanted to talk about holding a referendum, although the constitution, in line with the continental European norm, does not recognise a right of self-determination for regions.
The handover is a boost for United Technologies unit Pratt & Whitney, whose decision to develop a new generation of engines accelerated plane projects from Canada to Russia and triggered a heavyweight riposte from Airbus and Boeing.
To some extent, the scenes of a major American city underwater seems like Mother Nature's riposte to the Trump administration, which has spent 7 months methodically reversing the climate change policies enacted of President Barack Obama.
A riposte to Kazimir Malevich's "Black Square" (2725) — a forerunning totem of utopia — "Nine Laws" discerns no transcendence in the nothingness of its black fields; the work looks backward not forward, its temporality recuperative and reflective.
It may also have been a riposte to Verizon Communications, which had agreed to acquire Yahoo for $4.8 billion but last week said the data breach may have devalued Yahoo enough to justify renegotiating the price.
The move may also be a riposte of sorts to those who seized on Mr. Simons's departure from Dior of France as a chance to deplore the state of fashion for demanding too much of designers.
For many of the counterprotesters, there was a kind of weariness that they had been compelled yet again to show up, as a kind of visual and numerical riposte to the forces of intolerance and hate.
Carrie Mae Weems offers this work a tough riposte in the five photographs of "Not Manet's Type" (1997), which considers some male artists' tastes in (usually white) models and the urge to be an artist oneself.
Dr. Vuving said that Vietnam may have ordered Repsol to stop drilling in the South China Sea this summer because it feared its Coast Guard could be overwhelmed by a potential riposte from the Chinese Navy.
But in the fall, the farm bureau received permission from the court to step in for the state and defend the law, a riposte in a case that advocates believed was, at last, all but won.
Her outfit at the Geffen that hot day in late September — a floral jumpsuit, suede mustard-colored mules and violet toenail polish — delivered a jaunty riposte to the little black dress she wore in the video.
They are also a riposte to the 19th-century Orientalist paintings of Ingres, Delacroix, and Jean-Léon Gérôme, which were pure products of the imagination: semi-clothed concubines idly reclining in the harems of powerful men.
For all of Iran's fierce public riposte to U.S. threats of tougher sanctions, some senior Iranian officials see the U.S. position as a "bargaining strategy" and believe the door to a diplomatic compromise should stay open.
LONDON (Reuters) - Brexit will be heavenly for the United Kingdom because it will be free from bullies in Europe, Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage said on Wednesday in a direct riposte to European Council President Donald Tusk.
The Texan has generated plenty of skepticism from respected pundits during his three seasons of AFL but he delivered a stunning riposte to doubters during the Magpies' upset of the reigning champions Richmond in Melbourne on Friday.
TO PEOPLE who believe that the world used to be a better place, and especially to those who argue that globalisation has done more economic harm than good, there is a simple, powerful riposte: chart 1, below.
BERLIN/BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary should be excluded from the European Union for anti-migrant policies that undermine EU values, including erecting a razor-wire fence, Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said, provoking a scornful riposte from Budapest.
When Mr Trudeau defended Canada's riposte to the steel and aluminium tariffs in a press conference at the end of the summit, Mr Trump tweeted that he was "very dishonest & weak" and accused him of making "false statements".
The importance of negative results is a riposte to the objection that the money involved, of $20bn or more, would be better spent in other areas of science—hunting exoplanets, say—where the chance of discoveries is higher.
The pre-dawn swoop drew a sharp riposte from the hardline CGT union, which wants to force President Francois Hollande's government to rethink the labour reforms designed to make it easier for companies to hire and fire employees.
Kramp-Karrenbauer also raised eyebrows by saying she had been in touch with SPD Foreign Minister Heiko Maas by text message and, in an unusually direct riposte, Maas said he did not think much of text message diplomacy.
First, with a simple black backpack in nylon and a small branded triangle on the front, introduced in the mid-1980s, that acted as a riposte to the bling and bluster that defined the fashion of the decade.
Merz is the least-known and, perhaps not incidentally, the only female member of Arte Povera, a movement shepherded into existence, in 1967, by the art critic Germano Celant, as Italy's ambitious riposte to American Pop and minimalism.
If Mr. Alaïa's partners succeed, their story will not only be the classic one about writing a new chapter, but also perhaps the most effective riposte to the frenetic musical chairs of fashion the industry has seen yet.
When Salman visited Washington in September, the main focus of talks was the push by his powerful son, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to win investment from American firms, an apparent riposte to Iran's overtures to Western companies.
On the topic of why he brought up Drake's ghostwriting rumors once again on "Infrared," Push says that it was a simple riposte, given that Drake had deliberately targeted his own realness on "Two Birds, One Stone" in 2016.
In his first public riposte to Trump since the latter unveiled his new Cuba policy last month, Castro told the national assembly that any attempt to topple the revolution would fail, as it had under 11 previous U.S. presidents.
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Ramon Zenhaeusern has endured years of people telling him he was too tall to compete in the slalom and on Thursday at the Pyeongchang Games he finally had the perfect riposte - an Olympic silver medal.
Most of the songs on the album are Bibb's, although he offers covers of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land", originally an angry riposte from the dispossessed, and Bob Dylan's "Masters of War", about the merchants of destruction.
But in a riposte from London, Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain threatened to walk away from talks on a free-trade agreement if the bloc tries to tie his country too closely to its rules as a price.
Even before he, ahem, "stormed" the SCIF, though, Gaetz was a regular on Fox News, confidently regurgitating conservative talking points and jumping at every opportunity to trash the Green New Deal with his own half-baked legislative riposte, a.k.a.
And five of the 16 new works will be by women, a priority for Ms. Viso, who said that Ms. Fritsch's blue rooster would be a kind of feminist riposte to monumental 20th-century sculpture, most of it by men.
Evan Chesler, a lawyer for Qualcomm, a big chip designer, had only a few minutes left in his riposte to Ruffin Cordell, who represented Apple, a hardware giant, when it emerged that the two firms had agreed to a settlement.
The US launched a fierce riposte in the aftermath of the chemical attack launched by Assad's forces in April -- which was condemned across the world -- and says it will not hesitate to take action should another similar strike take place.
Chuck tries to nail Axe by placing a mole inside the firm, Axe catches on and volleys back with a devious riposte, Chuck steals Wendy's session notes to gain secrets, Axe strikes back with threats, and so on and so on.
It's an answer that shuts down the possibilities of its own question, and it's the one truly disappointing moment in Us. Still, Us is an uncanny movie, and an implicit riposte to the questions Peele himself asked in Get Out.
"The system is as rigged as we think," Warren wrote in her 2017 book "This Fight Is Our Fight" — in a riposte to Barack Obama, who insisted it was not, even as he recognized the influence of money in politics.
BEIJING (Reuters) - The U.S. government can do more to reduce demand for fentanyl and should stop shifting the blame onto others, China said on Monday, in another riposte to Trump administration criticism that China is not helping resolve the drug problem.
" China's Wang encouraged Iran to keep its commitments under the nuclear deal and, in an apparent riposte to Trump, said "at the same time, the legitimate right of all countries to normal economic relations and trade with Iran should be respected.
JERUSALEM — In a furious riposte a day after the United Nations Security Council's adoption of a resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday pledged to exact a "diplomatic and economic price" from countries who acted against Israel.
Iran met with the European parties in Vienna on Friday but said they had offered too little in the way of trade assistance to persuade Tehran to back off from its plan to breach the limit, a riposte to Trump's withdrawal.
The lead-up to the rematch between Serra and St-Pierre was a tad fiery, with Serra branding his opponent as "Frenchy" in a hurried riposte to some flak being sent his way from St-Pierre's adoring fans from Quebec, Canada.
Boned or seamed to fool the eye, the interpretations that materialized this week at Tome, Jonathan Simkhai and Chromat, among others, were more whimsical than literal: a none-too-subtle riposte to the gender-free looks sweeping the runways only a season ago.
U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that North Korea would face "fire and fury" if it threatened the United States, provoking a riposte that the North was examining a plan to fire missiles at the U.S.-held Pacific island of Guam.
Sure, your chances of being murdered may be lower than at anytime before in human history, but one could riposte that given the size of the human population today there has never been more total disutility, or suffering/injustice/evil, engulfing our planet.
When Woodrow Wilson said the U.S. was entering World War I because "the world must be made safe for democracy," Teddy Roosevelt's "realist" riposte — of which Bolton approves — was that "first and foremost we are to make the world safe for ourselves."
Formula E, the electrified cousin of Formula One, is first and foremost about marketing, a 140-mile-an-hour riposte to those who think battery-powered cars are part of a conspiracy by tree-huggers to take the fun out of driving.
"By rebranding the theater, Indhu Rubasingham seems to be canceling out its past," Michael Billington wrote in The Guardian, referring to the theater's artistic director, even as others proffered the sensible riposte that a new name also signals a new way forward.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration ordered Russia on Thursday to close its consulate in San Francisco and two diplomatic annexes, in New York and Washington, in a carefully calculated riposte to Russia's order that the United States cut its diplomatic staff in Russia.
Ms. Parker has an expansive and thrillingly original imagination, and her riposte to "The Scarlet Letter" required two plays, both featuring a central character named for Hawthorne's ill-used Hester: "In the Blood" and "A," whose full title includes an unprintable epithet.
PARIS, March 8 (Reuters) - Europe wants to avoid an escalating trade war with the United States should it impose tariffs on steel and aluminum, but is preparing a riposte and counter measures would be immediate, European Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said.
In the Financial District, perhaps as a riposte to Frank Gehry's "New York" torqueing rental 22-story supertower at 221 Spruce Street, a Robert A.M. Stern condo tower is going up: 23 Park Place, owned by Silverstein Properties and marketed as Four Seasons Private Residences.
Also on view are Hauser's futuristic-expressionistic portraits of women in pencil and colored pencil on paper — rich primary colors outlined in velvety-black graphite — which offer a stylized, fantastical art brut riposte to Willem de Kooning's monstrous, semi-abstract women of the 1950s.
"Adults in the Room" is several things: a gripping tale of an outspoken intellectual's sudden immersion in high-stakes politics, an at times overwrought riposte to the many people in and outside Greece who derided his efforts and a solid work of explanatory economics.
The branding is kept to a minimum (this was, of course, the house that introduced simple nylon bags in 1984 as a riposte to more showy arm candy), and even the label's own instantly recognizable triangular logo tab is subdued into near obscurity by darkness.
This one, called "Soft Power," written by Chinese artists instead of Americans, is both a rueful romance like "Stick With Your Mistake" and a gleeful riposte to Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I," inverting that Golden Age classic's fallacies and stereotypes to hilarious and pungent effect.
As long as Syrian forces do not use chemical weapons again, American officials have signaled that Mr. Trump's first use of force against Mr. Assad's military is likely to have been a shot heard around the world — but also a riposte that will not be repeated.
"The Schooldays of Jesus" may stand as a riposte to the common charge that Coetzee's approach to fiction is cerebral and his prose dry, since Dmitri is the passionless Simón's antithesis: a supremely flamboyant vocal performer and, despite his Russian name, a classically melodramatic Latin lover.
" In a riposte to Apple's Tim Cook, who has argued that customers choose Apple's higher-cost devices in part because they trust Apple to keep their data private, Pichai added, "Privacy cannot be a luxury good offered only to people who can afford to buy premium products and services.
The Orestes story is related in the third person, a device that deprives the eponymous hero of Aeschylus' trilogy of his own voice—the author's sly riposte, perhaps, to the fact that in so many Greek myths women's concerns, like their bodies, are subordinated to those of men.
Miranda, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony award winner of Puerto Rican descent, said the video was intended as a riposte to a crackdown on illegal immigrants by President Donald Trump's administration and his bid to ban travel to the United States by people from six predominantly Muslim states.
By contrast, in the third-largest democracy, Indonesia (the United States is second), the re-election of President Joko Widodo, a soft-spoken politician who is more concerned with building roads than firing up nationalist passions, was perceived as a strong riposte to the rise of populist strongmen.
A dress that on its own was taken as something of a riposte to the French — you want girlie, I can do girlie — but which sent a message about reclaiming and reinventing old tropes of what was considered traditionally "ladylike" and defining them as powerfully as she pleased.
Word of the Day noun: (fencing) a counterattack made immediately after successfully parrying the opponents lunge noun: a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) verb: make a return thrust verb: answer back _________ The word riposte has appeared in 39 articles on NYTimes.
Officials in Iraq's parliament, where powerful blocs have unbreakable ties to Tehran, started a process to end the presence of foreign troops in the country, in a clear riposte to the US after it killed top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad two weeks ago.
However, after persistent reports of chlorine attacks over the last year, his foreign minister and aides have been more nuanced saying a response would hinge on French intelligence proving both the use of chemicals and fatalities, and a riposte would most likely be in coordination with the United States.
After talks on Friday in Vienna, Iran said European countries had offered too little in the way of trade assistance to persuade it to back off from its plan to breach the limit, a riposte to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision last year to quit the deal and reimpose economic sanctions.
Founded in the early 1980s, as a riposte to the legal profession's liberal mainstream, the Federalist Society has had a hand in the past three Republican Supreme Court appointments—starting with its frosty response to George W. Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers and promotion of Samuel Alito in her place.
Herrera's green triangle looks like a before-the-fact feminine riposte to Johns's sardonic sendup of painterly machismo.) The Herrera faces "Plum Nellie, Sea Stone" (1972), a purple-and-white painting by Robert Reed, an African-American artist who taught at Yale from 19703 to 2014, the year of his death.
Most analysts agree that it will not bring Iran the benefits it seeks, but the Europeans regard it as an important gesture of good faith in the agreement and as a riposte to a Trump administration that they say is using American financial power to harm European interests and trade.
So Guthrie sings his riposte, "This Land Is Your Land," with its lesser-known verses about social inequality: One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steepleBy the Relief Office I saw my people — As they stood hungry, I stood there wonderin' Is this land made for you and me?
On the accompanying label, Abdul Hadi explains that she is taking control of art history "in a time where it is often influenced by political agendas" — a riposte to BP's farcical support of an exhibition about a civilization that was situated in a modern-day country it has helped to destroy.
Yet here he was, missing Vincent Kompany, Ilkay Gundogan and Sergio Agüero — his captain, his cornerstone and his crown jewel — providing the most eloquent riposte imaginable: a performance that bore testament not to the radiance of the raw material at Guardiola's disposal but to the brilliance with which it had been shaped.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Babyboomer and Gen X artists who outlived the "death of painting" ideologies of the last century will be impressed by the formal and conceptual riposte Leslie Wayne's new paintings make to that strain of theorizing; young millennial painters, meanwhile, may just enjoy the fresh, inventive construction.
For anyone who has ever thought that the use of clothing as a political tool was frivolous or overstated, or groaned at yet another piece insisting that a woman in a white pantsuit was making a statement, there was no better riposte than the State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
"The findings are, in essence, a powerful riposte to the 'why-do-they-hate-us?' characterization of men in the region which has come to shape media coverage and policy making in many quarters," Shereen El Feki, a writer on sexuality in the Arab region and co-principal investigator of the report, tells CNN.
Ringgold's "American People Series #220: Die" (22020), depicting a bloody interracial melee, offers a trenchant riposte to the exoticism and cultural appropriations of Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), while Thomas's "Fiery Sunset" (1973), a radiant, ultramarine-on-scarlet abstraction reveling in its freedom of brushwork and color, owns the wall adjacent to Matisse's "The Red Studio" (1911).
Last year at the State of the Union address, a majority of the women of the Democratic Congressional Caucus wore white — white suits, white dresses, white shirts, white jumpsuits — as a nod to the suffragists, to women's rights, as a silent riposte to President Trump and as a message to the electorate about their own unity.
When confronted directly with said allegations, feminists are quick to riposte with the rampant misogyny that is Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE, but this is logically incoherent.
"Dust Tracks" (1993), the sole painting in the show and the first thing you encounter as you walk through the door,  reaches out and grabs you in a lurching embrace; a raucous concoction of swells, swirls, and cutaway voids, it's more sculpture than painting, a human-scaled riposte to Frank Stella's steamrolling Moby-Dicks (1986-88) from the decade before.
Calling the North Korea leader "Rocket Man" at the UN and threatening to destroy his country if it endangers the US, along with the slapping of new penalties on the already heavily sanctioned nation, was met with a threat from the North Koreans to test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean and a riposte that Trump is a dotard.
Mr. Ananthamurthy compares the key texts of these dominant political strains: Mr. Gandhi's "Hind Swaraj," a riposte to British colonialism completed in 10 days, during a ship journey in 1909, and published a year later; and "Hindutva," the 1923 founding text of Hindu nationalism, written by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, a right-wing activist imprisoned by the British for his role in India's freedom movement.
" Within that mind-set, the Rolex Series, at the very least, presents a riposte to any vision of a golfing new world order under the P.G.A. Whatever might be happening across the Atlantic, Pelley can be sure the Donegal coast will be its own thriving epicenter for one part of the golf world this week: "Its success so far has elevated the entire European Tour.
Obama understood the impact of that early answer — when she saw the public response to her outfit (which had been chosen specifically as a riposte to the Palin news) — it set in motion a strategic rethink about the use of clothes that not only helped define her tenure as first lady, but also started a conversation that went far beyond the label or look that she wore and that is only now, maybe, reaching its end.
Russia has already said it will create three new divisions along its western border and has threatened to put nuclear warheads on its new Iskander missiles and base them in Kaliningrad — territory bordering Poland and Lithuania that Moscow annexed after World War II. Some NATO country officials, including in Poland, believe that Moscow already has nuclear weapons in Kaliningrad, and will wait to announce that deployment in response to an operational missile defense, or as Moscow's riposte to the NATO meeting.

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