The word "rejoinder" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun meaning a response or reply to something or someone. Example: After the professor's initial response, John offered a clever rejoinder.
The next day, Mr Bush used his annual address to the UN to serve as a second, partial rejoinder.
Again, he found that his chosen indicator predicts preference for facial masculinity more accurately than the health figures do (though less well than the Gini .However, in a rejoinder published in the same issue of the Proceedings, Dr DeBruine and her colleagues point to a flaw in Dr Brooks's analysis: his failure to take into account a society's overall wealth.
Such accusations are not new; neither is the official rejoinder that they are the actions of rogue individuals.
Heading into Christmas, the first three books on the New York Times bestseller list were "Dude, Where's My Country?" by Michael Moore, the clown prince of Bushophobia, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them", a leftish rant by Al Franken, and then an angry conservative rejoinder, "Who's Looking Out For You?" by Bill Reillylly of Fox News.
Another neocon, Eliot Cohen, a professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, has a fine rejoinder for Mr Perle.Being neither Republican nor Democrat, and thinking the government's conduct of the Iraq war an entirely appropriate subject of political debate I do not think anyone should have kept mum in an interview of this kind until an election had passed.
It would be hard to imagine someone relishing their time in court, but Mr Blagojevich has a unique disposition.Mr Pagano represents the grimmest, increasingly common rejoinder.
The authors reckon that low-cost imports from China alone offset more than a quarter of the measured rise in income inequality since 1994.Let them drink organic milkOne obvious rejoinder to these findings is, as Mr Broda concedes, that the recent surge in oil and food prices has hit the poor hardest.
Its latest policy document on the subject, published in May, also emphasises the link between treating AIDS and tuberculosis.However, there is no plausible rejoinder to another part of the critics' observation, which is that the treatment programme is an open-ended financial commitment.
But the obvious rejoinder to Mr Mann and Mr Ornstein is that they are committing the very sin they decry.
The president's rejoinder is that Bishop Porras and some of his colleagues are "counter-revolutionaries" who never spoke out against corruption and the abuse of power under the discredited two-party system he was elected to destroy.
Moody's warned on June 19th that it may downgrade California's credit rating by several notches, which could turn America's most populous state into a junk-bond issuer.The California example is a sharp rejoinder to the superior attitude taken by Americans and Europeans during the Latin American and Asian crises of the 1980s and 1990s.
