The series has included the trio rowing up the River Thames ( similar to the 1889 novel also named Three Men in a Boat ), sailing from London to the Isle of Wight for a sailing yacht race, borrowing numerous vessels to make their way from Plymouth to the Isles of Scilly, taking to the Irish Canals and Rivers and along with Dara's dog ( Snip Nua ), an escapade travelling throughout the Mediterranean to Venice and most recently attempting to find a boat to take to the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, where in response to an ongoing challenge between Griff and Dara ( who had each secured a boat each and who refusing to give it up to use the others ) he secured the Nantucket Lightship to use.

In a letter published in the British Medical Journal in 1980 in response to Kräupl Taylor's article, Dr Brendan Musgrave recalled that in 1947 when he was a houseman at the Royal Isle of Wight County Hospital he had seen a case of this seemingly rare condition.

* 1786 – Shays ' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.

A special armed employee of the express service using the stage for transportation of bullion or cash would sit beside the driver, carrying a short shotgun ( or alternatively a rifle ), to provide an armed response in case of threat to the cargo, which was usually a strongbox.

In response, the United States moved to provide material assistance to the new government's armed forces, which were engaged against both CPK insurgents and NVA forces. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces, desperate to retain their sanctuaries and supply lines from North Vietnam, immediately launched armed attacks on the new government.

" In 1988, in response to a campaign against lesbians at the Marine's Parris Island Depot, activists launched the Gay and Lesbian Military Freedom Project ( MFP ) to advocate for an end to the exclusion of gays and lesbians from the armed forces.

As response to this operation, the Awami League announced the declaration of independence of East Pakistan on March 26, 1971 and began an armed struggle against the Pakistan, with India staunchly supporting Awami League by the means of providing arm ammunition to its guerrilla forces.

Fatah was appealing to Palestinians who want a more hardline response to Israel by reaffirming its option for " armed resistance " against Israel.

Additionally, ICBMs are generally considered to be nuclear only ; although several conceptual designs of conventionally armed missiles have been considered, the launch of such a weapon would be such a threat that it would demand a nuclear response, eliminating any military value of such a weapon.

On Independence Day 1821, in response to those who advocated American support for independence movements in many South American countries, Adams gave a speech in which he said that American policy was moral support for independence movements but not armed intervention.

In 1980, Kahane was arrested for the 62nd time since his emigration and jailed for six months following a detention order based on allegations of planning armed attacks against Palestinians in response to the killings of Jewish settlers.

Montoneros did not think about their armed violence as a response to a threat to society, but as the key of their identity.

In this latter usage, a militia is a body of private persons who respond to an emergency threat to public safety, usually one that requires an armed response, but which can also include ordinary law enforcement or disaster responses.

Most larger jurisdictions also employ specially selected and trained quasi-military units armed with military-grade weapons for the purposes of dealing with particularly violent situations beyond the capability of a patrol officer response, including high-risk warrant service and barricaded suspects.

In a political move to provide some manner of response, Grant met as a civilian with the opposing party heads and, with his potential use of the armed forces an implicit threat, was able to facilitate a settlement.

When Dingane sent an impi ( armed force ) of around twelve thousand Zulu warriors to attack the local contingent of Voortrekkers in response, the Voortrekkers defended themselves at a battle at Nacome River ( called the Battle of Blood River ) on 16 December 1838 where the vastly outnumbered Voortrekker contingent defeated the Zulu warriors.

In the " evil empire " speech, which also dealt with domestic issues, Reagan made the case for deploying NATO nuclear armed missiles in Western Europe as a response to the Soviets installing new nuclear armed missiles in Eastern Europe.

Finally, disgusted with the slow response from the government and the overt bias towards the wealthy plantation owners, Zapata began making use of armed force, simply taking over the land in dispute.

In response the railroad loaded a train with fourteen workers and four armed guards who were tasked with keeping the tracks open.

A response to the harsh reality that the armed forces of Malcolm had met their match.

In 1913, in response to the Lockout, he, along with an ex-British officer, Jack White, founded the Irish Citizen Army ( ICA ), an armed and well-trained body of labour men whose aim was to defend workers and strikers, particularly from the frequent brutality of the Dublin Metropolitan Police.

The arms purchase was a response to the US arms embargo ; the Árbenz Government resupplied the Guatemalan armed forces, because it was convinced that a U. S .– sponsored paramilitary invasion was imminent.

Eldridge Cleaver and Huey Newton eventually fell out with each other over the necessity of armed struggle as a response to COINTELPRO and other actions by the government against the Black Panthers and other radical groups.

Drill conditions the soldier ideally to instant response to commands, is essential for military function, because without it, a military unit would likely disintegrate under the stress of combat and degenerate into a mere armed mob.

The basic truth in the reactionary response is to be found in its realistic assumption of the primacy of the real over the ideational.

Johnson, in the face of the national mania over new railroad construction, and in response to the need in his own district for additional mode of transportation, found himself moderating in his opposition to them.

In 1800, as the result of a professional disagreement over the galvanic response advocated by Galvani, he invented the voltaic pile, an early electric battery, which produced a steady electric current.

In response to criticism over ergonomic issues in the 7800 ’ s Pro-Line controllers, Atari later released joypad controllers with European 7800s, which were similar in style to controllers found on Nintendo and Sega Systems.

Nevertheless, a 2009 systematic review and meta-analysis of trials in people diagnosed with schizophrenia found that less than half ( 41 %) showed any therapeutic response to an antipsychotic, compared to 24 % on placebo, and that there was a decline in treatment response over time, and possibly a bias in which trial results were published.

In response, Universal turned the film over to outside film editors who cut Army of Darkness to 81 minutes in length and another version running 87 minutes that was eventually released in theaters, ending up with an R rating as a result.

By not asking about the horses, Confucius demonstrates that the sage values human beings over property ; readers are led to reflect on whether their response would follow Confucius's and to pursue self-improvement if it would not have.

The speed and fidelity of their response, combined with the simplicity of their design, makes them well-suited for experiments where scientists need to have very fine control over stimuli which are presented to an observer.

If a simply stable system response neither decays nor grows over time, and has no oscillations, it is marginally stable: in this case the system transfer function has non-repeated poles at complex plane origin ( i. e. their real and complex component is zero in the continuous time case ).

After the program was broadcast, Ford received over a thousand angry letters and telegrams in response to Draper ’ s appearance.

There is no evidence that her books ' popularity ever suffered: her response to criticism is said to be that she was not interested in the views of critics aged over 12 .< ref >

In 1773 he resigned from the Marblehead committee over the virulently negative response the townspeople had to the hospital for treating smallpox he set up on Cat Island.

Flame trolling is the posting of a provocative or offensive message, known as " flamebait ", to a public Internet discussion group, such as a forum, newsgroup or mailing list, with the intent of provoking an angry response ( a " flame ") or argument over a topic the poster often has no real interest in.

In response to the NIST decision, the Census Bureau is in the process of transitioning over to the GNIS Feature ID, which will be completed after the 2010 Census.

Perhaps in response to Hamilcar's raids, Rome did build another fleet paid for with donations from wealthy citizens and it was that fleet which rendered the Carthaginian success in Sicily futile, as the stalemate Hamilcar produced in Sicily became irrelevant following the Roman naval victory at the Battle of the Aegates Islands in 241 BC, where the new Roman fleet under consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus was victorious over an undermanned and hastily built Carthaginian fleet.

In 1893, judging that his power over Ethiopia was secure, Menelik repudiated the treaty ; in response the Italians ramped up the pressure on his domain in a variety of ways, including the annexation of small territories bordering their original claim under the Treaty of Wuchale, and finally culminating with a military campaign across the Mareb River into Tigray ( on the border with Eritrea ) in December 1894.

However, many see his monumental work, Don Carlo, as a response to Wagner's typical epics that often spanned over four hours.

When hypoglycemia occurs repeatedly, a record or " diary " of the spells over several months, noting the circumstances of each spell ( time of day, relation to last meal, nature of last meal, response to carbohydrate, and so forth ) may be useful in recognizing the nature and cause of the hypoglycemia.

By 1888, it was clear that the piecemeal system that had developed over the previous century in response to the vastly increased need for local administration could no longer cope.

This method was allegedly utilized by Russian secret services, over a period of two weeks on a cyberattack on Estonia in May 2007, in response to the removal of a Soviet era war memorial.

Memories of World War II linger among the older members of the Australian public, as does a contemporary fear of Japanese economic domination over countries, particularly Australia, although such fears have fallen off in response to Japan's economic stagnation in the 1990s.

In the 1950s, " a spiritual and cultural revival washed over American Jewry " in response to the trauma of the Holocaust.

In response to this problem, the kings tried to centralize power over time ; but they lost control over Spoleto and Benevento definitively in the attempt.