Back in 2011 the Congressional Budget Office, in evaluating one of Mr. Ryan's plans, came close to open sarcasm; it described the extreme spending cuts Mr. Ryan was assuming, then remarked, tersely, "No proposals were specified that would generate that path".
So did the ambush of an army convoy in the same area, with a dozen American troops reportedly killed or captured.. "A war is a war," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld remarked tersely on the NBC program "Meet the Press".
He begins by remarking tersely that these days it's bankers, not religious leaders, who spend time assuring you that they're ethical -- after years in which the industry has acting anything but ethically.
Mr. Ramirez, told of Mr. DePlasco's remarks, responded tersely: "The only thing I asked for was respect and integrity for the community that I come from".
"No comment," he tersely replies.
Texas formally notified the federal highway department, and on that day, Mr. Perry tersely offered his own remarks on his grand plan's demise during a visit to Brownsville.
"I have no comment on M. L. Carr, Laker Coach Pat Rileyy said tersely.
After today's cabinet meeting, the official public summary reported tersely, "Prime Minister Sharon requested that ministers cease making remarks about Iraq".
When he stumbles across a ring of decaying corpses and shot-up trucks and SUVs in the remote desert - the grisly remains of a drug deal gone sour - his callow young deputy remarks, plaintively: "It's a mess, ain't it, Sheriff?" And Ed Tom replies, tersely: "If it ain't, it'll do until the mess gets here".
"Due to remarks of his that we consider unacceptable, we are terminating our relationship with Rush Limbaugh," Satan said in a tersely worded statement.
"Risotto," he replied tersely.
