So, if we discovered an al Qaeda group of guerrillas operating, say, in the Philippines, we could no longer promptly attack them with near-the-scene commandos.
Back at the church, Mulder realizes O'Connor was innocent all along, but Mackey summons snakes who promptly attack Mulder.
Having done so, he and his colleagues were promptly attacked for choosing "arthouse product".
Mr. McAuliffe was promptly attacked by his counterpart at the Republican National Committee, Marc Racicot, who described the speech as "reckless political rhetoric".
More recently, he has discarded his cowboy boots and gone barefoot into the cage of a Komodo dragon, which promptly attacked his big toe.
Lewandowski was hired to be Smith's campaign manager and promptly attacked Sununu, an Arab-American, for accepting a contribution from a Republican donor who had previously served as lawyer for the Holy Land Foundation, a group with ties to Hamas.
With a pliable legislature and what he hoped would remain an equally compliant supreme court, Walker promptly attacked a fundamental part of Democrats' constituency and organisational base: labour unions.
Speaking to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, a day after the vote in Prague, Mr Topolanek insisted it was business as usual for the Czechs' EU presidency, which remains in their hands for three more months (he promptly attacked American economic-recovery plans as the "way to hell").
Recently the cabinet agreed to cut the corporate-tax rate from 39% to below 30%, but SPD bigwigs and even a CSU minister promptly attacked the plan.Unlike her SPD predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, Ms Merkel can at least count on support in the Bundesrat, the upper house, where the states are represented.
Correction: September 13 , 2004 Monday An article on Aug. 16 about Ngugi wa Thiongo, a politically provocative writer who returned to Kenya after 22 years of exile and was promptly attacked brutally by robbers, misspelled the name of the language of the Kikuyu people, in which he writes.
"The small male comes near, moaning, and is promptly attacked again, though I only hear growls, roars, and whines like a pack of dogs fighting and see the bamboo shake violently," he wrote in The Giant Pandas of Wolong.
