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My blow is easily parried, our sabers clashing hot white.
On "Morning Joe," she parried questions about a possible presidential run.
The candidates parried from lecterns that were kept six feet apart.
"Is Putin a girl that I should love him?" the activist parried.
This thrust was easily parried, as their own candidate Blaine also hadn't served.
Of course, I'm tone deaf—and quickly parried I.R.S.'s tedious tax questions.
Harris at times effectively parried those attacks, but she didn't do it enough.
But his shot from the penalty shot is parried wide by Keylor Navas.
He dodged and parried with characteristic aggressiveness and lobbed attacks of his own.
And Taj Jackson, the singer's nephew and longtime defender, parried with a critic.
During his Senate confirmation hearing, Roberts skillfully parried questions and was confirmed 78-22.
Every time Kaine attacked, Pence parried and deftly shifted the conversation to something else entirely.
John McCain parried a number of pointed questions from moderators and his opponent, Democratic Rep.
She parried the questions over whether she should step down, saying she had Beijing's backing.
Mr Francisco gratefully received this benefit of the doubt, and tersely parried the liberal justices' arguments.
Predictably, it fell out and tumbled across the floor as the two men lunged and parried.
Punching off parried kicks is an art and you don't really see it enough in MMA.
Aspas chests a pass back to Iniesta, and his low on-target shot is parried aside.
Linear kicks can, of course, be parried or caught as Buakaw and Saenchai so regularly demonstrate.
But so far Mr. Trump and his allies have successfully parried every one of their moves.
THE THREAT OF EXTINCTION, however wittily parried by the Parsis who face it, is no exaggeration.
Mr. Sanders brushed it off, then parried the attack by questioning Mr. Bloomberg's record in China.
" North Korea parried by calling him an "imbecile" and a "tyrant that puts Hitler in the shade.
But O'Malley parried the attack, saying he had not raised "a penny" from Wall Street this year.
In private luncheons at the Capitol, Republican senators have parried points that have spilled out into public.
The sacred dual directives had to be vigorously defended and market regulations of any kind aggressively parried.
On a primetime debate about abortion last week, she took the stage and deftly parried her opponents.
But his mind was quick, and he nimbly parried questions that the Chinese authorities might consider objectionable.
Asked by CNN's Blitzer in February about the hold-up at the town hall, Sanders parried again.
Trump effectively parried those difficult questions when he thrust focus, without any evidence, onto former President Barack Obama.
But Mr. Maduro parried off the attempt with tear gas and rubber bullets, closing border bridges into Venezuela.
Ms. Warren and her team, in turn, have confidently parried those attacks and used them to rally supporters.
Sanders parried by accusing Biden of advocating for half measures that would leave millions of Americans still uninsured.
Throughout the day he parried a bit more with the senators, but steered clear when they squabbled among themselves.
When Cerrone's favorite switch kick came out, Masvidal parried it across his body and counter punched for the knockout.
Anderson deftly parried with a knowledge of the gritty TV Western, noting that Thursday's night debate was less Shakespearean.
But Comey parried that attack effectively, insisting that there was a consistent principle he had been able to uphold.
He parried that I should not have entered the intersection unless I was sure I could make it through.
For more than an hour at the outset, irate Democrats and a frustrated Mr. Grassley parried back and forth.
Debroy's boss, Policy Commission Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya, parried further questions on whether to tax India's 220 million rural households.
Each side of the fencing match -- the Special Counsel and the President's legal team -- has lunged and parried with skill.
"We're being invaded," parried a caller from Tucson, according to a transcript provided by a person who recorded the event.
When Jones mistimed an oblique in the first round, Gustafsson parried it and stepped in to complete a takedown against Jones.
Rosenstein appeared comfortable, occasionally looking down at his notes, as he parried tough questions from both ideological wings of the court.
Once you've parried its challenges, there's no further escalation headed your way, and maybe not much more reason to keep playing.
Then there is an endless series of costly appeals, with new sets of attorneys, whose briefs must be parried by prosecutors.
Powell parried three questions about whether the Fed intended to restrict the economy with its rate policy, but gave little away.
Thanks to intensive coaching and preparation, the company's communications team believed, he had effectively parried tough questions at the April hearing.
Markets have been on edge as the U.S. and its trading partners have parried back and forth over the trade issues.
She parried the email issue reasonably well (and he didn't press it for some reason) and only came off untruthful on TPP.
In the 90 or so years between Grant stepping down and Richard Nixon taking office, four other presidents parried with independent prosecutors.
Then, with the sands of time about to run dry, Tim Howard clumsily parried a free kick into the path of Costinha.
Biden avoided a moment like the one Harris elicited last month, and largely parried whatever attacks the other candidates threw his way.
"Time after time we keep proving that every lunge against us will be parried tit-for-tat," they warn in the post.
In previous debates, Mr. Buttigieg has easily parried attacks from his rivals — that task will become tougher as scrutiny on him increases.
Trump hit back, of course, but Rubio parried and seemed to be more adept than Ted Cruz at actually landing blows on Trump.
She introduced many new lines of attack, including on foreign affairs, which Mr. Sanders parried by questioning her judgment on Iraq and Libya.
Ms Anders parried queries about whether expanding the ken of the First Amendment in this way might invite a "flood of meritless lawsuits".
Business owners, meanwhile, were irked when legislators parried that thrust and wound up temporarily stripping away some breaks that corporations have historically enjoyed.
When Machida threw his favourite front snap kick, Gallagher parried it across the karateka and shot in on him in his disadvantaged position.
The three parried questions about the business in a cramped conference room with doors and shutters painted in DriveU's company colors — shamrock green.
While they both parried effectively, many commentators and critics thought Mr. Sanders delivered his most confident performance of the campaign, even as Mrs.
El-Shenawy was named man of the match against Uruguay, as he coped well with constant pressure and parried away three shots. 221.
But he has parried the attacks with humor and a hopeful message and has started drawing crowds to match those of Mr. Erdogan.
Aides sensed that could change Friday, and Buttigieg quickly parried each attack before retreating to well-rehearsed sections of his usual stump speech.
She parried that one easily, rolling out her usual retort that her actions were identical to those of her predecessors, including Colin Powell.
Often a fighter is at his most vulnerable if he attempts to return to his original stance after having his leg parried across himself.
Great knockouts have come off of parried or missed kicks because it is so tricky for a fighter to guard himself from that angle.
This combination is most useful to side kickers for when their kick is parried off course, but Vannata went on the offensive with it.
Leicester nearly had a breakthrough when Christian Fuchs teamed with Musa for a close-range shot that was parried by Hull goalkeeper Eldin Jakupovic.
Early on Sunday, as Brazilian fencer Ghislain Perrier, parried lunges by Ma Jianfei, the local crowd jeered the Chinese rival, even though he won.
He parried questions, without any obvious blunders, on matters ranging from abortion to gun rights to executive powers and arcane provisions of antitrust law.
" She later apologized, but even then she parried with her critics, saying she did not mean any offense by calling Ms. Ferraro "a witch.
Mr. Huseman, a mostly soft-spoken Oklahoman, parried questions more effectively than during the first hearing but grew animated after repeated questions about unionization.
Mr. Acosta parried and deflected questions from journalists, in the process making the meta-argument that the Viewer-in-Chief should not cancel him.
Still, he parried other attacks well, and strategists noted that given his position in the race, he could weather a less-than-stellar performance.
" Ms. Guadagno parried Mr. Ciattarelli, condemning him when he suggested that she "had an opportunity to veto the gas tax, acting as the governor.
On the stand, he lunged and parried with state trial lawyer David E. Nachman, avoiding simple answers so often that the judge chided him.
Adam Cancryn, health care reporter: The knives finally came out for Elizabeth Warren, but she parried them across all three hours of the debate.
For weeks, parties have parried by proxy over who would get to represent the opposition to the government of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.
Substitute Andrea Belotti extended Italy's lead in the 69th minute, scoring at the second attempt after his powerful downward header was parried by Al-Owais.
Gamely, Mr. Tillerson parried the questions — just as he had done this year in Latin America and Europe, where his reception had been similarly frosty.
Then there is the provocative point that Mr. Trump's efforts were parried by the threat to resign of his own White House counsel, Mr. McGahn.
The fullback's attempt was parried by China keeper Peng Shimeng into the path of Giacinti, who had followed up to stab home from close range.
Oblak parried Kroos's initial shot, but he was then helpless when the ball fell back at the feet of Isco, who scored from close range.
Instead, as Trump and Cruz parried, Rubio interjected, not with a transcendent moment, but with a familiar recitation of a relevant portion of his stump speech.
Trump & Miss Universe By Theodore Schleifer, CNN Clinton parried a claim from Trump about her "stamina" by pointing to Trump's history of uncouth remarks about women.
At this hearing, the two sides parried over how many Saudi officials and other witnesses the plaintiffs would be allowed to question during the deposition phase.
In repeated appearances on television in recent weeks, Mr. Sekulow has parried with aggressive reporters and has sought to explain the president's tweets about the investigations.
Buttigieg parried gamely but couldn't bat away the fact that he's 37 and his only political experience came as the mayor of America's 306th-largest city.
On Thursday, where Biden consulted his notes and corrected himself, Warren parried skepticism over Medicare for All when a rival or a moderator raised a question.
Hiesinger parried questions on when that might happen, however, reminding his interviewer that the partners had agreed to keep a majority in the business for six years.
That's not to say the anti-climate change messages Trump espoused on Thursday, and pence parried on Friday morning, don't play well with the ultra-conservative base.
While the shot might have been parried under normal circumstances, the ball looped over goalkeeper Joe Hart after glancing off the outstretched leg of City midfielder Fernando.
But the Vermont senator successfully parried most of the attacks, flipping them into an opportunity to make the case for his maximalist agenda — and for party unity.
" To that, Senator Debbie Stabenow, Democrat of Michigan, parried that when a car goes into a ditch, "the first thing I don't do is dismantle the car.
Pépé swept in the opener in the eighth minute and Sokratis grabbed the second in the 42nd after United goalkeeper David De Gea parried Alexandre Lacazette's header.
During the Senate Finance Committee hearing, Mnuchin parried Democratic attacks on his history with foreclosures at a lender he co-owned and tax practices at his hedge fund.
Cung Le made use of both the lead leg hook kick and side kick and when either was parried or glanced off a guard his back was exposed.
Just seven minutes in, Yannick Carrasco's shot was parried away by Wales goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey before two follow-up shots — with Hennessey flailing — were blocked by Welsh defenders.
Clinton deftly parried her rival's arguments, deriding many of them and agreeing with a few, and at times interrupting Mr. Sanders in hopes of provoking a testy explosion.
Republican senators parried on the accusation that Trump potentially obstructed justice in the investigation into Flynn by arguing that the president's conduct shouldn't be taken too seriously. Sen.
Off a corner, John Stones's towering header is barely parried away by the Tunisian goalkeeper Mouez Hassen, but Harry Kane is right there to put away the rebound.
Minutes later, Olivier Giroud, fed by sprightly substitute Coman, forced a diving save from Patricio, who then parried away a pile-driver from Sissoko as France turned the screw.
Leonie Maier's curling shot was only parried by the Swedish keeper and the ball fell to Mittag just yards from goal but she blasted the ball high and wide.
But second-half substitute Ben Yedder poked the ball home in added time to complete the victory after Gomes parried a powerful Nabil Fekir free kick into his path.
When questions came his way, Buttigieg parried the thrusts in a way likely to sustain the momentum his campaign has been seeing over the past several weeks, analysts said.
Green, a 21-year-old making his first start in more than two years, created the first goal when he took a shot that was parried by goalkeeper Sandy Sanchez.
Ms. Gillibrand rebuffed him, parried a skeptical moderator's question and returned to her main argument: that a proposal like hers would help neuter special interests like the National Rifle Association.
George opened the scoring for Los Ticos in the 30th minute when he pounced on a shot parried away by Bermuda goalkeeper Dale Eve and fired in from close range.
It responded to rumours that his penis was lost in a military accident (not true, apparently) and parried questions about his love of horses ("What is wrong with horses?" it exclaims).
Warren and Sanders parried attack after attack from a number of centrists desperate to claw their way into the next debate, counter-punching hard as they defended their stridently progressive policies.
" John F. Kennedy parried concern about his wealthy father buying the election with a telegram he read for the press: "Dear Jack: don't buy a single vote more than is necessary.
Feeling impossibly frail and weary, the 82-year-old Cohen parried with a thoroughgoing renunciation—of Jahweh, Jesus, Vishnu, sex, and the acrid jokes he'd been cracking for half a century.
Alexis Sanchez had a golden opportunity to put Chile in front early, but he shot wide from close range after German goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen parried a shot by Vidal.
The Edwards campaign parried the attacks by trotting out support from Republicans and law enforcement officials, noting his endorsements from the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association and the International Union of Police Associations.
He also continued to say Clinton lacked the "stamina" to be president, even after she effectively parried him on the issue and after their 90-minute debate performances substantially undermined his claim.
From talk radio to Fox News to Breitbart, alternative public spheres coalesced as echo chambers, where climate science could be regularly parried and parodied and conservative precepts about government overreach perpetually reinforced.
He parried questions of how much control people have over their data on the world's largest social media network without a major gaffe, while avoiding being cornered into supporting new government regulation.
Despite growing pressure from her caucus—now including members of party leadership, most notably Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler—Pelosi once again parried demands that House Democrats move forward with impeachment proceedings.
Rosenstein, a lifelong Republican, has become an unlikely hero of the left as he's parried with conservative lawmakers and defended the integrity of the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation, which he oversees.
For nearly two contentious hours, Mr. Baroni, then Mr. Christie's top staff appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the bridge, interrupted and parried with legislators.
Taylor Swift's unfiltered testimony about a former radio host who she said groped her attracted a lot of notice for its directness and for the skill with which she parried his lawyer.
Berrettini seemed to be in command again in the fifth set, taking a 5-2 lead as the two parried and lunged at each other, shifting from offense to defense many times.
While Cruz seemed to have parried the attack for now, he was stung by Trump on another issue: Whether people who live in New York City have the same values as other Americans.
But Cruz parried that a Clinton presidency would be far more harrowing, and told those gathered that he would not spend the next two months as a Trump surrogate backing his every position.
Justice Luis Roberto Barroso authorized the investigation of Temer on suspicion of graft charges involving a decree regulating ports, adding to corruption allegations the president has so far parried with backing from Congress.
If Democrats push to hold up the nomination, Republicans will effectively need 60 votes to confirm the 49-year-old conservative appeals judge, who parried Democratic attacks in Senate confirmation hearings this week.
Picasso parried by mocking the apparent repetitiveness of the gaunt figures that had become the exclusive focus of Giacometti's sculpture during his war years in Switzerland—a bum rap, as this show proves.
Chile flew into the game in their inimitable style and Alexis Sanchez should have put them in front, but shot wide from close range after keeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen parried Vidal's shot.
Asked if the Democrats voting to advance a new bill to roll back portions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank bank bill were undermining the party's efforts to appeal to working voters, Sanders parried.
Mr. Hamidzai parried that charge of drunkenness by saying in a Facebook post that a senior policeman at the scene had been drunk, and that the policeman was an armed robber to boot.
When Cerrone's kicks came around the outside, Masvidal stuffed them, parried them across Cerrone's body, and used the chance to jump in with counter punches on Cerrone as he stood on one leg.
Simon Gougnard, who had received news of his father's death on the eve of the semi-final clash, made it 2-0 with a fierce shot after George Pinner parried a penalty corner flick.
Sitting alongside his counterparts at Google and Twitter, Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch parried Kennedy's questions about how Facebook handles user data, vets its 5 million monthly advertisers, and polices content on its platform.
In conversation after conversation, on the phone, by email and in person, at mixers and conferences, in airports and foyers and hallways, he pitched his plans, parried critics and cajoled skeptics into the fold.
And then suddenly the tables had turned: Saint looked hopeless as JDCR parried and interrupted every move he could make, knowing his timing down to the frame and his placement down to the pixel.
Muller is first to the rebound of a long shot parried by Olsen, but wrestling a defender as the goalkeeper comes out, he can't find a way to get a foot on the ball.
He had not added that it was especially unsafe for a woman to be alone, but she knew both that he thought it and that it was true, even as she parried his suggestion.
President Trump is becoming increasingly adept at handling the complexities of international politics, a reality illustrated by the fact that he effectively parried a Russian effort to undermine him over the last several months.
They could not turn that impetus, however, into clear chances, although second-half substitute Daniel Arzani brought an additional spark to the Australia attack and had a good shot parried by Schmeichel at the death.
As Cruz and Tribe parried over Heller's provisions for exceptions to Second Amendment protection, Tribe gently corrected his former student's summary of whether laws like those then under debate had clearly been ruled off limits.
Outrage over Duterte's many vulgar and sexist comments about women was parried with Facebook posts noting the president's backing of women-friendly policies, including a reproductive health law and a bill to lengthen maternity leave.
His 34th-minute shot was well-parried by Patricio, but by that point the match had settled into a pattern of France probing and pushing but struggling to break down their more defensively-minded opponents.
She juggled business calls, prepared a chicken dish and parried the demands of her three sons, aged 4 to 8, who were stretched out before the TV. By her own admission, she can be pushy.
The Americans had a chance in the 19th minute when Altidore's swerving 343-yard shot was parried by Blake, who dived left and then beat Kellyn Acosta to the rebound at the six-yard box.
When Q&A moderator Dave Itzkoff asked Brooker whether he had his pick of the litter in terms of casting the new season, Brooker parried with an evasion about how wonderful everyone in "USS Callister" was.
Kelly's pointed questions were easily parried by the KGB-trained Russian president, who smirkingly responded with conspiracy theories about the Kennedy assassination and suggested that American hackers may have framed Russia for interfering with the election.
While Portugal continued to sit back in extra time, they had the better chances with Eder's header parried by Hugo Lloris and Raphael Guerreiro striking the crossbar with a free kick before Eder's moment of magic.
For an hour and a half on Tuesday night, the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee parried with Democrat Tim Kaine as if Trump were as mild mannered as Mitt Romney and as doctrinaire as Paul Ryan.
Clinton seemed to hit upon a guiding principle of sorts, as she parried Mr. Trump's ubiquitous "Make America Great Again" with the kind of rhetorical Q. and A. that can breach the bumper-sticker character limit.
As Facebook's co-founder and chief executive parried questions from members of Congress about how the social network would protect its users' privacy, he returned time and again to what probably sounded like an unimpeachable proposition.
In the most significant (and electrifying) exchange between any two GOP candidates this cycle, Cruz easily parried Trump's bully-boy attacks and lacerated the Republican frontrunner like a Harvard debate team senior hazing a stuttering frosh.
Judge Kavanaugh parried a question from Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, about whether he had ever blacked out from drinking — not by answering the question, but by asking the senator if she had ever blacked out.
While Buttigieg so far has parried effectively, voters likely will be watching more closely than ever to see if he has the chops to leap from the South Bend mayor's office to the White House's Oval Office.
Trump parried back on Twitter that "the pathetic new hit ad" had misrepresented his words, and chided Clinton and former President Bill Clinton for the attacks, not making a distinction between her campaign and the independent super PAC.
And, most important, the Trump team's view of China as a strategic threat, whose economic assertiveness must be countered even as its geopolitical ambitions are parried, has resonated with both political parties and with America's foreign-policy establishment.
When Mitchell, cuckolded and left to raise a black man's child as his own, realizes that his suffering is a kind of reprisal, his whiny "Why me?" is parried irrefutably by his fellow-father: Why Cooley's great-granddaddy?
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Tuesday authorized an investigation of President Michel Temer for suspected corruption involving a decree regulating ports, adding to graft allegations the president has so far parried with backing from Congress.
Cruz's mastery followed when he was asked about an improperly disclosed loan his Senate campaign received from Goldman Sachs, a question he perfectly parried into an extended attack on the New York Times — always a favorite conservative punching bag.
Trump viscerally reacted to the Washington University town hall like a man who'd imbibed a supersize serving of rage juice, speaking loudly and quickly as he responded to audience questions and parried Clinton's volley of attacks on his character.
People remember the debater who parried with [Sarah] Palin and leveled Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanThree-way clash set to dominate Democratic debate Krystal Ball touts Sanders odds in Texas Republicans pour cold water on Trump's term limit idea MORE.
Though he's parried his Bachelorette fame into a rock star-style health and fitness career — he tells me he will coach over 1,000 people at a fitness event this summer — Kraus doesn't fall in line with the traditional Bachelor alum.
The two sides parried behind the scenes as Republicans resisted a broad proposal to provide paid sick leave and pushed for the inclusion of language into the emergency package to ensure that federal funding could not be used for most abortions.
Mr. Trump parried with a joke about the comedian Rosie O'Donnell that electrified the audience, and he later accused Ms. Kelly of bias, saying she had "blood coming out of her wherever," a comment widely interpreted as referring to menstruation.
On Tuesday, Levatich parried that question by expressing confidence in the company's strategy to make forays into middleweight, lightweight and battery-powered bikes and grow its business overseas, particularly in Asia, to account for half of its revenue by 2027.
LONDON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - A top global athletics official said she took up her role at the international athletics body IAAF in 2011 with her "eyes wide open" about problems of doping, but found efforts to reform the organisation parried at every turn.
Cuba striker Maykel Reyes hit the post in the 58th minute, before the U.S. took the lead four minutes later when keeper Sandy Sanchez parried a shot into the path of Wondolowski, who lashed home from close range for his 11th international goal.
Ecuador equalized 20 minutes later when Angel Mena pounced on a parried shot to touch home from close range and the South Americans grew into the game, especially in the second half, when their long ball game troubled the young Japanese side.
Clinton and Mr. Sanders parried shortly before news broke of the death of the conservative Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, leaving a vacancy on the nation's highest court that is likely to galvanize Democrats and Republicans alike and provoke new debate over whether Mrs.
Nadal missed a large part of the 2016 season because of a wrist injury but proved there was nothing wrong with his fitness as he scrapped to go 2-1 up, sealing the deal with a blistering forehand which Dimitrov parried into the net.
The world number 10 then settled into safety mode, aiming for the center of the greens rather than attacking the pins, as he parried his last 10 holes on the rapidly drying Senoras Golf Club layout to ensure no one could capitalize on any errors.
To understand that threat and how it might be parried, it's helpful to consider why the United States has relied so heavily on employer-provided insurance — and why it has not yet adopted a form of the universal coverage seen in most other countries.
Even as the country mourns, the Spanish authorities are trying to answer how a group that included teenagers was able to carry out such a well-planned attack in a country that had long parried danger, despite being a tempting and symbolic target for Islamists.
Now, the authorities are rushing to answer how a group that included teenagers was able to carry out a well-planned and coordinated attack in a country that has parried danger for so long, despite being such a tempting and symbolic target for Islamists.
Throughout the morning, Mr. Rosenstein repeatedly parried questions about the investigation into Russian interference and whether he would appoint a special counsel to handle it, saying that he has not yet been briefed on any investigation the department may have into the 2016 election.
Biden parried with the $3 trillion figure again and then four other attacks: Harris retorted that "the cost of doing nothing is far too expensive" and noted health care costs are projected, under the current system, to increase to $6 trillion a year 10 years from now.
Clinton had been in politics for 30 years and had yet to offer any solutions, and when he parried a question from her about releasing his tax returns by saying he would release them when she released the 33,000 deleted emails from her time as secretary of state.
Mr. Castro, in rolled-up white shirt sleeves and a red striped tie, politely parried back questions and follow-ups from the moderators, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, but without the kind of viral moment some of his rivals have enjoyed by attacking the network on its own airwaves.
Buffett parried concerns raised by a shareholder, and previously by hedge fund manager William Ackman, that Berkshire promotes bad health through its roughly 9-percent stake in Coca-Cola Co. Buffett, who consumes 700 calories of Coke a day, said it seemed wrong to blame calories alone for rising obesity levels.
However, Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) continues to stand in the way of any effort toward impeachment, including on Wednesday after Hicks blocked and parried Democratic attempts for her testimony.
In a half-day of testimony on Thursday, Mr. Greenberg parried Mr. Nachman's questions about the creation of Capco, saying he had not sought any special legal or accounting advice about the structure of the reinsurer, which absorbed the auto losses after it was created in mid-2000 with outside investors.
But Mr. Trump also unapologetically made a similar argument about filling labor shortages with foreigners on guest-worker visas when he parried attacks from Mr. Rubio and another rival, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, over the foreign waiters and hotel workers he has hired at his resort in Palm Beach, Fla.
For two hours, Mr. Mulvaney parried questions from Senate Democrats on the Banking Committee about why enforcement actions against shady businesses appeared to have stalled under his watch and why the members of the staff that he installed were receiving such handsome salaries — in some cases more than $200,000 per year.
"   But when Sanders pivoted back to his well-worn argument that his vote against the Iraq War, which Clinton supported, shows he has the foreign policy judgment needed to serve as commander in chief, Clinton parried by arguing that a vote in 85033 is not "a plan to defeat ISIS in 2016.
At the fish fry, which drew the race's seven leading candidates to a Cedar Rapids racetrack that has become a regular stop on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, the candidates parried question about rural infrastructure, river flooding and labor rights — the sort of bread-and-butter issues Ms. Finkenauer used last year to oust a Republican incumbent.
Sitting at a small coffee shop in Sioux City, Iowa, Gillibrand parried a question about beating Republicans everywhere -- including conservative districts like the one she currently sat in -- by using her personal experience of ousting a longtime Republican member in a conservative district by taking positions on guns and immigration that are now out of step with Democratic voters.
More recently, says Craig Fehrman, a writer and journalist who has penned several in-depth profiles of the politician, Mr Pence has become shy and uncomfortable about pinpointing his religious affiliation; during one interview, he parried questions about that matter by calling himself a "pretty ordinary Christian" and said he and his family were "kind of looking for a church".
So we have numerous examples of defeating an opponent who is holding a knife against your throat with his arms nicely straightened (to the degree that he couldn't stab into the neck if he wanted to) so they can be parried... And opponents who are lunging with the karate stepping punch style thrust of the knife from a few meters away.
Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisFive takeaways from the Democratic debate Gabbard, Buttigieg battle over use of military in Mexico Leading Democrats largely pull punches at debate MORE (D-Calif.) hit Buttigieg harder when she alluded to his lack of support among black voters, but the South Bend mayor parried by agreeing with a larger point about not taking voters for granted.
On Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested putting off Trump's State of the Union address, a judo move that was "a good place to begin clawing back Congress' power," wrote Joshua Spivak (and also an introduction -- for Trump, and Pelosi's caucus -- "to the big leagues," observed Jen Psaki.) On Thursday, the President parried by blocking a secret trip to Afghanistan by Pelosi and other Congress members.
"Juul is attempting to rehabilitate its public image by posing as a public health advocate while working behind the scenes to weaken or defeat tobacco control proposals and prevent communities from even considering policies to curb tobacco use," said Nancy Brown, chief executive of the American Heart Association, whose network of lobbyists has parried with e-cigarette and tobacco industries in many states this year.
Inslee, who comfortably parried questions from CNN's Wolf Blitzer during the town hall, removed his glasses near the end of the hour-long event to make the point that climate changes matters and the best way to make sure the 2020 nominating fight focuses on the issue is by helping him meet the DNC standards -- 65,000 individual donors and a polling threshold -- so he can participate in the Democratic Party primary debates.

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