Mr Purnell's speech was a riposte to the Tories, who had prescribed stronger medicine on January 8th.
It was the ideal riposte to the early United dominance and Barca were suddenly playing with their usual swagger.
But the resulting book is not just unfailingly readable: it is also a provocative, enlightening and welcome riposte to the cyber-utopian worldview.
Urging a wholesale revamp of the welfare system based on greater self-reliance, it reads like a riposte to the Lafontaines' tome, and is no doubt meant to.
Mr Romney must now adapt his strategy, and come up with a more decisive riposte to those who criticise his personal wealth and career record as a venture capitalist, our correspondent says.
And he will argue that deeper information sharing rather than harmonisation is how the EU should pursue integration, building on Brown's successful riposte to the proposal to establish an EU withholding tax on income from financial securities.
The proper riposte to Putin's threat is the one given earlier this year by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld when Russia's current defense minister, Sergei Ivanov, similarly told him that Russia would deploy more strategic warheads if the United States pursued defenses.
In a riposte to Mr Yushchenko's allegations (backed by western election observers) of vote-rigging in Mr Yanukovich's power base in the Russian-speaking east of Ukraine, Mr Yanukovich has alleged ballot-stuffing in Mr Yushchenko's Ukrainian-speaking stronghold in the west, and has filed his own complaint to the Supreme Court.
Arsenal managed to launch a stirring riposte, but the result leaves them five points behind leaders Manchester United after their victory over Bolton - although the Gunners do have a game in hand.
Mr Monti's dry riposte has been to remind Italians that Mr Berlusconi had invited him last month to lead a coalition of moderates, but that he had refused.
The onus was on Australia's openers to provide a solid platform for a robust riposte and, although Phillip Hughes began nervously with a series of streaky boundaries behind square, they managed to notch a confidence-boosting 50-run partnership.
The brave but tiring visitors had no riposte and Villa continued to pile forward, with Speroni performing more heroics to superbly tip over Stewart Downing's 20-yard drive.
All-rounder Watson has come in for some criticism recently but provided the perfect riposte with an unbeaten 96 to leave him within touching distance of his first Test century.
Ten points adrift, Wasps launched an immediate riposte as Paul Sackey stepped inside two tacklers to release Cipriani, but the pass was adjudged forward and the try disallowed.
The victory is the perfect riposte for Spurs following their quarter-final first-leg loss to Real Madrid, which has - barring the most unlikely of second-leg turnarounds - ended their involvement in this season's Champions League.
The usual riposte, of course, is that such superpower restraint is necessary if others aspiring to possession of nuclear weapons are to be dissuaded from acquiring them.
In an immediate riposte, Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos said the reparations issue was one for international law to determine, stressing it was completely unrelated to Greece's international financial bailout.
At times, "The Outsider" reads both like a memoir and a riposte, a sharp two-handed backhand down the line from a champ who freely cops to selfishness, stubbornness and shortcomings as a husband.
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