Stochastic theories blame environmental impacts on living organisms that induce cumulative damage at various levels as the cause of aging, examples of which ranging from damage to DNA, damage to tissues and cells by oxygen radicals ( widely known as free radicals countered by the even more well-known antioxidants ), and cross-linking.

Burgoyne would later blame La Corne for deserting him, while La Corne countered that Burgoyne never respected the Indians.

Defenders of the opera, including John Rockwell of the New York Times, countered that, by portraying the terrorists as human beings rather than two-dimensional villains, Adams forces the audience to confront the underlying causes of violence, rather than to blame only the brainwashed children of violence.

Winston countered with another ad, featuring a woman with greying hair in a bun who insists that ought to be " Winston tastes good as a cigarette should " and is shouted down by happy cigarette smokers asking " What do you want — good grammar or good taste?

However, Robert Rines, who previously made two underwater photographs allegedly showing the monster, countered with the fact that they can also be arranged into " Yes, both pix are monsters, R ."

: The claim that EPR effects violate the principle that information cannot travel faster than the speed of light have been countered by noting that they cannot be used for signaling because neither observer can control, or predetermine, what he observes, and therefore cannot manipulate what the other observer measures.

* If a leap occurs, it must be small and immediately countered by stepwise motion in the opposite direction.

An open row of three ( one that is not blocked by an opponent's stone at either end ) has to be blocked immediately, or countered with a threat elsewhere on the board.

If not blocked or countered, the open row of three will be extended to an open row of four, which threatens to win in two ways.

These ideas can be countered by the fact that during the winter, the time of year in which UV light is most scarce at northern latitudes, the ground is often covered with white snow.

Adams vilified slavery as a terrible evil and preached total abolition, while Calhoun countered that the right to own slaves had to be protected from interference from the federal government to keep the nation alive.

Ethnicity, being largely developed by a divergence in geography, language, culture, genes and similarly, point of view, has the potential to be countered by a common source of information.

Side effects, such as perspiration and diarrhea, can be countered by adding atropine.

Internalists countered with various arguments: that brain states will eventually be directly observable with advanced technology, that most cultural anthropologists agree that culture is about beliefs and not artifacts, or that artifacts cannot be replicators in the same sense as mental entities ( or DNA ) are replicators.

The effects of morphine can be countered with opioid antagonists such as naloxone and naltrexone ; the development of tolerance to morphine may be inhibited by NMDA antagonists such as ketamine or dextromethorphan.

Those who opposed Microsoft's position countered that the browser was still a distinct and separate product which did not need to be tied to the operating system, since a separate version of Internet Explorer was available for Mac OS.

This position is countered by fellow philosopher Tom Regan, who writes that the same argument could be used to justify having sex with children.

The rocket launcher in Quake III is effective but not overpowering, allowing it to be countered in many situations.

They taught that every argument could be countered with an opposing argument, that an argument's effectiveness derived from how " likely " it appeared to the audience ( its probability of seeming true ), and that any probability argument could be countered with an inverted probability argument.

At first it appeared that the ICBM could be countered by systems similar to the ever-evolving SAMs already in operation.

In the aftermath of the Swing Riots of 1830 – 31 he countered the Tory magistrates ' alarmism by refusing to resort to military force and instead he advocated magistrates ' usual powers be fully enforced along with special constables and financial rewards for the arrest of rioters and rabble-rousers.

Rabin initially countered by requesting that Wakeman also be included.

They may be purposefully imposed, or arise as unintended consequence of trans-cultural interaction ; and have a measurable effect even where countered by other external influences and actions deemed to be beneficial or which serve to promote indigenous rights and interests within the wider community.

However, despite the crushing unemployment and the infamous billboards saying " Will The Last Person Leaving Seattle-Turn Out The Lights ," the outflux of people was " never more than 15 % of those laid off ," and was promptly countered by new arrivals taking advantage of the now-underpriced housing stock.

It was an important step for a leading female novelist to write a biography of another, and Gaskell's approach was unusual in that, rather than analysing her subject's achievements, she concentrated on private details of Charlotte's life, emphasising aspects which countered accusations of ' coarseness ' which had been levelled at her writing.

At the time, Soviet helicopters countered the threat from RPGs at landing zones by first clearing them with anti-personnel saturation fire.

A second attempt to bring Sweden back under his control in 1518 was also countered by Sture's victory at Brännkyrka.

Although Mazda produced an experimental Wankel that year, NSU was first with a Wankel automobile on sale, the sporty NSU Spider in 1964 ; Mazda countered with a display of two and four rotor Wankel engines at that year's Tokyo Motor Show.

In turn, the U. S. countered by developing the vastly more powerful thermonuclear weapon, testing their first hydrogen bomb in 1952 at Ivy Mike, but the USSR quickly countered by testing their own thermonuclear weapons, with a test in 1953 of a semi-thermonuclear weapon of the Sloika design, and in 1956, with the testing of Sakharov's Third Idea – equivalent to the Castle Bravo device.

Officials at Rideau Hall have pointed to the Letters Patent of 1947 as justification for describing the governor general as head of state, but others countered that the document makes no such distinction, either literally or implicitly, nor does it effect an abdication of the sovereign's powers in favour of the viceroy.

In the foundation legend of a specifically Cean weather-magic ritual, Aristaeus was credited with the double sacrifice that countered the deadly effects of the Dog-Star, a sacrifice at dawn to Zeus Ikmaios, " Rain-making Zeus " at a mountaintop altar following a pre-dawn chthonic sacrifice to Sirius, the Dog-Star, at its first annual appearance, which brought the annual relief of the cooling Etesian winds.

The Mongols were then countered decisively at their weak points, which were battles in swampy areas such as Chương Dương, Hàm Tử, Vạn Kiếp and on rivers such as Vân Đồn and Bạch Đằng.

Regarding treatment at Hoa Lo and other prisons, Communist propagandists countered by stating that prisoners were treated well and in accordance with the Geneva Conventions.

Charles countered this by attacking the Russian besiegers at the Battle of Narva.

The Crown Army was judged too weak to oppose the four columns of enemy armies advancing into Polish Ukraine and began a fighting withdrawal to the western side of the Southern Bug River, where it regrouped and countered the Russian advance in a pitched battle, when Prince Poniatowski was victorious in the Battle of Zieleńce ( June 18, 1792 ), while Kościuszko's division took part in only some artillery exchange at the end of the battle, the general was among the first to receive the newly created Virtuti Militari medal, Poland's highest military decoration even today.

Nahmanides countered that Christiani's interpretations were per-se distortions ; the rabbis would not hint that Jesus was Messiah while, at the same time, explicitly opposing him as such.

Higginson countered by asking to be struck from the roll, and invited all present who were sympathetic to withdraw and meet instead at Dr. Trall's Water Cure Institute at 2 p. m.

At a meeting at Fire Records ' London office, Peter Kember proffered his name for single writing credits for six of the album's nine songs ; however, Jason Pierce countered, demanding joint credits for three of those songs due to the guitar parts he had contributed to them.

They countered combined U. S. Army and militia forces that ranged from 6, 000 troops at the outset to 9, 000 at the peak of deployment in 1837.

The lack of respect for traditional, " bourgeois ," " repressive " forms of authority and ritual, countered by irony and humour, was typified by Fritz Teufel's reply when told to stand for the judge at a trial: " If it helps the search for the truth " ( Wenn's der Wahrheitsfindung dient ).

In the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Soviets countered the U. S .– backed Mujahideen with a policy of scorched earth, driving over one third of the Afghan population into exile ( over 5 million people ), and carrying out widespread destruction of villages, granaries, crops, herds and irrigation systems, including the deadly and widespread mining of fields and pastures.

Soviet actions were countered by the United States which saw communism as a menace to its interests.

The Soviet Union countered this threat by issuing a statement that any use of nuclear weapons ( tactical or otherwise ) against Soviet forces would be grounds for a full-scale Soviet retaliatory strike.

# Zionism — the advocacy of a Jewish national state in Palestine — which countered Soviet views of nationalism.

The Soviet leader countered by saying " If we could promise the people nothing but revolution, they would scratch their heads and say ' Isn't it better to have good goulash?

" Koryagin persevered with his challenge and countered that these answers failed to clarify whether an acknowledgment was being made that Soviet psychiatry had been misused for political reasons.

Secret learning prepared new cadres for the post-war reconstruction of Poland and countered the German and Soviet threat to eradicate Polish culture.

During World War II he enlisted and worked for British intelligence in Bulgaria and later, having become disillusioned with communism, for the British Foreign Office in a programme that countered Soviet propaganda and misinformation.

In particular, Gorbachev essentially repudiated the Brezhnev Doctrine, which had stipulated that attempts by its Eastern European satellite states to abandon Communism would be countered by the Soviet Union with force.