That drew a sharp response for Senator John McCain of Arizona.
Although none of the agreed European sanctions takes immediate effect, advocates of increased pressure on Moscow claimed that the measures agreed at an EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels represented a sharp response to the shooting down of the plane, and predicted that some of the new sanctions were almost certain to be imposed.
Still, in one of his most heated moments of the night, Obama delivered a sharp response to Romney for accusing the White House of playing politics with the crisis.
In a sharp response, the head of the Air Force said members of the military should not take political positions.
The published comments led to a sharp response from Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles, who was also the object of criticism by Mr. Keating.
The letter was first reported by the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, and it drew a sharp response from Russia's commissioner of children's rights, Pavel Astakhov, a longtime advocate of restricting international adoptions.
Mr. Sloan's and Ms. Parent's talk of possibly dipping into MGM's cash coffers to have movies launched drew a sharp response from one member of the studio's board who requested anonymity to avoid friction with other directors and managers.
An alternative explanation, phrased in terms of a control system, is that the replication initiation machinery of S. cerevisiae and even more so of K. lactis have a sharp response curve as a function of the sequence composition: these machineries do not tolerate significant deviations from the optimal composition.
"Glory to Russia!" Amid renewed allegations of voting fraud, some opposition leaders called for demonstrations beyond those allowed by government permits, raising the prospect of a sharp response from the authorities and threatening to undercut Mr. Putin's promise of stability.
That had brought a sharp response from Italo Galbiati, one of Capello's assistants.
