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Naor Ben-Ezra, the young victim, expressed disappointment that Manasra did not receive a life sentence, a sentiment echoed by his father, Shai, who lamented the impact of the attack on his son's adolescence and family life. [5] In August 2017, the Israeli Supreme Court reduced his sentence to 9 and a half years in prison. [1]
In linguistics, an echo answer or echo response is a way of answering a polar question without using words for yes and no.The verb used in the question is simply echoed in the answer, negated if the answer has a negative truth-value. [1]
On December 2, 2015, in the wake of the San Bernardino mass shooting, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) tweeted his frustration with the phrase "thoughts and prayers", a sentiment echoed by the December 3 cover of the New York Daily News, which included tweets from senators and representatives the newspaper characterized as "meaningless platitudes".
The word rhei (ρέι, cf. rheology) is the Greek word for "to stream"; according to Plato's Cratylus, it is related to the etymology of Rhea. πάντοτε ζητεῖν τὴν ἀλήθειαν pántote zeteῖn tḕn alḗtheian "ever seeking the truth" — Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers [26] — a characteristic of ...
[7] Nic Stone of The Washington Post echoed the sentiment, saying, [O]ne of my favorite things about Angie Thomas is that she's always willing to dig a little deeper, to peel back another layer. This is what makes her latest novel, Concrete Rose — her best, in my opinion — a gift. It not only eviscerates the 'fast Black girl' stereotype and ...
An echo question is a question that seeks to confirm or clarify another speaker's utterance (the stimulus), by repeating it back in some form. For example: A: I'm moving to Greenland. B: You're moving where? In English, echo questions have a distinctive prosody, featuring a rising intonation. A speaker may use an echo question to seek ...
Paris Olympics organizers apologized to anyone who was offended by a tableau that evoked Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” during the glamorous opening ceremony, but defended the concept ...
Village Voice described the film as "easily one of the most important political films of the Bush II era", [2] a sentiment echoed by The New Yorker, who said that it was "[t]he best political film of 2005."