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He retorted that inequality was a necessity, because it was an incentive to work harder, but was also natural.
Second, it may be retorted that it is the strong, not the truth-functional, reading of "if" that is an artifice.
The envoys retorted that this was inadequate.
He felt this so keenly that he retorted with a flat denial.
His remarks about fatuity were wrong and unjust and could be retorted on his own comments on the matter.
They have retorted, also with some justification, that closing tax loopholes effectively places extra taxes on business.
It may be retorted that, if this is so, the new clause would do no harm.
I retorted that professional writers tend to he frequent, if rather laborious, speakers, and that no one ever said that they spoke particularly well.
It may be retorted that it is an unpopular measure, and that there is no great enthusiasm for it amongst any section of the industry.
The company retorted by putting the advertisement on the sails of a boat, but the vigilantes boarded the boat, bored a hole in it and sank it.
We might have retorted, when at the beginning of his term of office, he said he had found the forces overstretched, that our predictions had come out right.
When contacted, the firework company that had made the delivery retorted that, as far as they were concerned, the purchaser could have had 20 tonnes had he so wanted.
The stork retorted by inviting the fox to supper and giving him his sustenance in a long-necked vessel from which the fox was unable to get anything.
His brother retorted that the boats would be delivered in the morning regardless of the threatening message.
The first retorted that the second should fly off his ground.
