1.  Everything apart from us, guys !

2.  Besieged by inquiries, the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv has composed a stock response for Israelis who call demand an explanation.

3.  Alexander had a stock response for profile-writers who broached the subject earlier in the campaign.

4.  But international investigators are perplexed at the stock response from local officials that an investigation is still under way.

5.  Confronted with these reports, Taliban leaders have a stock response.

6.  The Jazz have their stock responses ready to such queries.

7.  Within only a few months, my stock response had become that it was the best place I had ever lived and worked.

8.  Ridge, who is midway through his second four-year term as governor, offered stock responses.

9.  Scepticism, if not outright despair, is a stock response to outbreaks of optimism by Bosnian officials.