The word 'respondent' is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to refer to someone who responds to questions or statements, such as a participant in a survey or a party in a legal dispute. For example, "The respondent in the case disagreed with the plaintiff's claims.".
If a proposed proposition was unconnected with any of the preceding propositions, the respondent would respond with agreement, rejection or doubt depending on what he understood the actual state of affairs in the world to be.
The academic research, carried out by Leeds University and funded by the Wellcome Trust, also reveals the pressures that lead people to enter the sex industry, with one respondent saying she could not keep up her mortgage repayments while earning £50 a day as an NHS care assistant.
One respondent said: "He plays politics – it's not like he actually cares about the people" and some lamented his background working for a private healthcare company in the US; one commenter said, "His solutions to challenges are inevitably market-based solutions".
"Only if we were really satisfied that by returning them to the respondent state they would be dealt with would we really espouse such a system".
All of which left one anonymous respondent to quip: "If you're being criticised from both sides, you've probably found the centre ground".
"I don't think he understands any issues relating to normal (not super-rich) people, let alone women," said one respondent.
"I've had a stalker for almost the entire time I've been working," said one respondent.
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