to respond in kind vs to respond in the same way

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• The prosecution is playing dirty, so you need to respond in kind.
• So, I just wanted to respond in kind.
• Permit me to respond in kind.
• We now call on them to respond in kind.
• You had no choice but to respond in kind.
• I wanted to respond in kind to Sadie's unkind rant, but I wanted to succeed as a mentor even more, and that meant embracing the exercise... and the enemy.
• That's why it's so important we find someone you can respond to in kind.
• Such is the language of terrorism, and we will not respond to it in kind, but with language of our own.
• And I will gladly respond in kind.
• And I will respond in kind.
• If the Council dismantles the budget system, we will respond in kind, and we will see who is willing to go furthest.
• I therefore believe that the Council should consider this aspect too and, above all, take specific action to stop Israel preventing freedom of movement, partly because, as things are, we can also respond in kind.
• We must respond in kind to the courage and tenacity of religious bodies and human rights activists in bringing attention to dozens of unexplained disappearances of children and young people, some of whom have since been found dead, their bodies mutilated.
• Just wanted to drop by quickly to respond to your kind job offer.
• The Commission, for its part, has stated that the offer to be prepared by the EU will be broad and far-reaching, and that it hopes that the WTO members will respond in kind.
• Madam President, it gives me no pleasure either, to have to respond to that kind of comment.
• The Commission should then respond to these kinds of questions as a whole.
• It is a real shame on us and the other European institutions that we cannot respond to these kinds of disasters.
• So unless it is to be naive, Europe must respond to this kind of competition, but without creating new monopoly positions.
• Did you really think I would respond to that kind of thing?

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