By saying you'd have a verbal response, you appear to be ruling out a military one.

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When paramedics arrived the girl was "staring into space" with her eyes open and no verbal response, the court was told.

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In one task, volunteers were exposed to one of three stressful situations (threat of unemployment, a shop-lifting accusation or an incident in a nursing home), where they had to prepare a verbal response and argue their case in front of a camera.

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The Glasgow Coma Scale is a standardized test that classifies a patient's motor, verbal and eye response on a graded scale.

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Mr Brown's verbal faux pas, uttered during prime minister's questions, came in response to criticism of his handling of the banking crisis.

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