Sentence examples for tough riposte from inspiring English sources
The state department's annual report criticising China, followed swiftly by a tough riposte from Beijing, is now a well-established diplomatic ritual.
In its toughest riposte to date, Geng Shuang, foreign ministry spokesman, said "the sound and steady growth of China-US relations [was] out of the question" were Trump to persist with his approach.
Earlier, Riposte's jockey Queally had said: "It has been a tough, tough week and I know that a lot of people are struggling, emotionally as well as everything else".
When John Creane, the union lawyer, pressed Mr. Rowland to answer a tough question, the governor, red-faced, offered testy ripostes that spawned whispers in the packed courtroom, filled mostly with union workers.
The riposte came swiftly.
On immigration, he suggested tougher labour standards would prevent employers undercutting locals' wages.Mr Miliband seemed happiest of all discussing his vision of the "good society": ie, his riposte to David Cameron's "Big Society".
That Eton riposte was superb.
