At times, the strategy used by public-health campaigners may seem heavy-handed; they retort that nothing else can work against a rich adversary.

很多时候，公共卫生活动家所采用的战略看似残酷；他们反驳说，要与一个富有的对手抗衡，没有任何其他办法。

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Lawyers retort that even if ATCA use against firms is curbed, individual executives could still be targeted.

律师们反驳说，即便用“外国人侵权索赔法案”针对公司的起诉被加以限制，个别高管依然可被起诉。

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Against which, Nationalist politicians retort that Scotland has been misled for decades about the declining value of the North Sea - and that Scottish-driven economic growth could counter future challenges.

BBC: Deficit, growth and prospects

"We are neither with you nor with the terrorists, " said one hard-line newspaper in its editorial responding to President Bush's retort that countries around the world are either with the United States or against it.

CNN: Khatami