"Look, it was a rhetorical response," Sanders said, asserting, in effect, that the President's words have no meaning.
Judging from Beijing's critical rhetorical response to this week's events, China's leaders appear minded to get tough with North Korea.
Ted Olson, sagely, interrupts this monologue at one point with an apt rhetorical response: "When did it become unconstitutional to prohibit interracial marriages?
But the committee said that in the end, it found the account "credible" and concluded that the professor's "rhetorical response to her query exceeded commonly accepted bounds by conveying that her question merited harsh public criticism".
But others working in the field argue that while the mayor may provide the right rhetorical response, she is isolated from the politics of competing agencies within Baltimore's criminal justice system.
Our rhetorical response to these new adversaries must therefore be fresh -- not least because some future adversaries may turn out to be not states, but transnational networks of disaffected people with global aspirations.
Iran's recent promotion from a rogue state to a member of the "axis of evil" appears to be a belated rhetorical response to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's portrayal of the United States as the Great Satan.
She reaffirmed that both the President and she herself lie easily and blatantly — as he did when he issued a "rhetorical response" on the U.C.L.A. students, and as she did at the beginning of the briefing, when she claimed to be thankful for the reporters in the room.
And the rhetorical response of conservatives to the stimulus plan — which will, it's worth bearing in mind, cost substantially less than either the Bush administration's $2 trillion in tax cuts or the $1 trillion and counting spent in Iraq — has bordered on the deranged.
Such disdain isn't particularly surprising, but Chaffetz's rhetorical response is.
