Instead, he delivered a riposte of scrumptious snide and studied subtlety, forked tongue coated in caramel.
Between the chuckles heard in the Republican applause, Obama delivered a riposte from off the script: "I know, because I won both of 'em".
The Guardian editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, has delivered a riposte to Rupert Murdoch's campaign to introduce paywalls to newspaper websites, claiming that it could lead the industry to a "sleepwalk into oblivion".
The ringleader of the African-American men smiled as he delivered a riposte.
Nine months and countless surgical interventions later, she stood up at the United Nations on her 16th birthday on Friday to deliver a defiant riposte.
Armagh made off with the NFL Division Three trophy, but Fermanagh will feel they have more to offer, and, more importantly, that they have the quality to deliver a resounding riposte when the sides meet in the Ulster championship next month.
The opposition spokesman must deliver a spontaneous riposte based on a quick reading of a newly published (and highly technical) document produced by his opponent.As it turned out, Alan Johnson did a manful job denouncing George Osborne's spending cuts as a threat to economic recovery and low-to-middle earners.
But the real brain work is sparked by exchanges between Dalziel, whose pretense at being a loutish country bumpkin masks a penetrating intellect, and Pascoe, who can deliver a classical riposte with the grace of a fencing master but isn't above a blunt gladiatorial blow to the groin.
State-run newspapers, moreover, have amplified Ms. Mugabe's attacks on the vice president, prompting Ms. Mujuru on Sunday to deliver an extraordinary riposte.
For a moment it looked like Barry might deliver an immediate riposte but, having picked up a good position on the right-hand side of the area and sat Dunne on his backside after checking on to his favoured left foot, he was tackled by the impressive Warnock.
