The only response we can think of is the humble one that at least we aren't playing the marimba with our shoes in the United Nations, but perhaps the heavy domes in the house of delegates can improve on this feeble effort.

Only one other contemporary of More's evokes so immediate and direct a response, and only one other contemporary work -- Niccolo Machiavelli and The Prince.

* Ada regulon, one of the Escherichia coli adaptive response proteins

; Model: Mathematical relationship which relates changes in a given response to changes in one or more factors.

The fixed-effects model of analysis of variance applies to situations in which the experimenter applies one or more treatments to the subjects of the experiment to see if the response variable values change.

* Multivariate analysis of variance ( MANOVA ) is used when there is more than one response variable.

Reverend James Freeman Clarke was one of Alcott's few supporters and defended him against the harsh response from Boston periodicals.

When one continues to operate with an open mind they will have a real sense of spontaneity rather than pre-planning a response.

His remaining secular works in this late period fall into three categories: first, large scale cantatas and one oratorio Habsburg written on patriotic themes or in response to the international political situation, pedagogical works written to aid his students in voice, and finally simple songs, rounds or canons written for home entertainment ; many with original poetry by the composer.

In ultra high fidelity amplifier design, the amp's frequency response should extend considerably beyond this ( one or more octaves either side ) and might have points < 10 Hz and >.

Most modern day biblical scholars assert that the Book of Lamentations was written by one or more authors in Judah, shortly after the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC ; and was penned as a response to Babylonian Exile, the intense suffering of the people of Judah, and the complete and utter destruction of Jerusalem.

This means that for every feature that one sees in the frequency response of the analog filter, there is a corresponding feature, with identical gain and phase shift, in the frequency response of the digital filter but, perhaps, at a somewhat different frequency.

Caltech undergraduates have historically been so apathetic to politics that there has been only one organized student protest in January 1968 outside the Burbank studios of NBC, in response to rumors that NBC was to cancel Star Trek.

As a response to the increased global sedentarity and consequent overweight and obesity, one response that has been adopted by many organizations concerned with health and environment is the promotion of Active travel, which seeks to promote walking and cycling as safe and attractive alternatives to motorized transport.

The Chula is a song where the singer part is much bigger than the chorus response, usually eight singer verses for one chorus response, but the proportion may vary.

Finally, the Quadra is a song where the same verse is repeated four times, either three singer verses followed by one chorus response, or one verse and one response.

In response to Haeckel ’ s evolutionary claim that all vertebrates are essentially identical in the first month of embryonic life as proof of common descent, His responds by insisting that a more skilled observer would recognize even sooner that early embryos can be distinguished.

In response to Cypriot fears that the Jews would never leave ( since they lacked a state or documentation ) the British later allowed the refugees to enter Palestine at a rate of 750 per month.

And the second course of action led to my going to Pakistan a month or so after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for the purpose of coordinating with the Pakistanis a joint response, the purpose of which would be to make the Soviets bleed for as much and as long as is possible ; and we engaged in that effort in a collaborative sense with the Saudis, the Egyptians, the British, the Chinese, and we started providing weapons to the Mujaheddin, from various sources again – for example, some Soviet arms from the Egyptians and the Chinese.

* 1945 – Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.

As a response, Paramount Pictures devised their own system the following month to augment their 3-D process known as Paravision.

And the second course of action led to my going to Pakistan a month or so after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for the purpose of coordinating with the Pakistanis a joint response, the purpose of which would be to make the Soviets bleed for as much and as long as is possible ; and we engaged in that effort in a collaborative sense with the Saudis, the Egyptians, the British, the Chinese, and we started providing weapons to the Mujaheddin, from various sources again – for example, some Soviet arms from the Egyptians and the Chinese.

The FLN carried out an average of 800 shootings and bombings per month through the spring of 1957, resulting in many civilian casualties and inviting a crushing response from the authorities.

In response, Amiga Power put the same screenshot of the game on their Next Month Strip every month for about six months, with repeated humble reassurances to the reader that they might, possibly, have it by next month.

Clinical trials have shown that after three brief sessions of Pavlovian response conditioning while awake, and subsequent use of a biofeedback headband during sleep, more than 75 % of bruxism sufferers experience more than a 60 % reduction in nighttime clenching from the first day of biofeedback onward, and more than 50 % of bruxism sufferers experience more than an 80 % reduction in bruxism within the first month.

" Fisking " was coined by bloggers in December 2001, following a three-paragraph response by Andrew Sullivan to an article Fisk wrote for The Independent on Sunday earlier that month.

Later that month, at a press conference in the garden of the British embassy in Washington, DC in response to a question as to why he appeared so cheerful, Lamont commented that it was a beautiful morning, adding, " My wife said she heard me singing in the bath this morning ," a response which led to the story that he was singing in the bath with happiness at leaving the ERM.

Treatment for ehrlichiosis involves the use of antibiotics such as tetracycline or doxycycline for a period of at least six to eight weeks ; response to the drugs may take one month.

On 6 August, the Conservatives learnt that Asquith planned to put the Home Rule Bill on the statute books ; Law wrote an angry letter to Asquith, the response of which was that Asquith could either pass the bill immediately, suspending it for the duration of the conflict, or make it law with a six month delay and with a three year exclusion for Ulster.

* In response to events of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, John Dryden's topical play Amboyna, about events in the East Indies, is reportedly " contrived and written in a month " — certainly one of the fastest acts of solo dramatic composition known.

That same month, Powell's announced it would close its technical bookstore on the North Park Blocks, moving its sections on math, science, computing, engineering, construction and transportation into " Powell ’ s Books Building 2 " at the corner of 10th and Couch Street, near the main City of Books location ; the consolidation was in response to a five-year decline in brick-and-mortar sales of technical books in favor of online sales.

Citrine alleged, in response to his lawyer's questioning, that the Daily Worker received £ 2000 pounds per month from " Moscow ", and that Moscow directed the paper to print anti-war stories.

The tests were seen widely as a response to Israeli aerial war games staged earlier in the month.

* Late February-In response to allegations of atrocities the Taliban authorities accuse rebel forces of killing 120 civilians during their three-day occupation of Bamiyan earlier in the month.

1957 Ford Thunderbird The Ford Thunderbird began life in February 1953 in direct response to Chevrolet's new sports car, the Corvette, which was publicly unveiled in prototype form just a month before.

In response, Congress passed the Contraction Act, calling for the withdrawal of $ 10 million in United States Notes within the first 6 months and an addition $ 4 million per month thereafter.

There was no immediate response while everyone waited for Vanguard to launch, but the continued delays in Vanguard and the November launch of Sputnik II resulted in the go-ahead being given that month.

However, critical response was negative, and it was out of the theaters by the end of the month.

Action taken today is often far more valuable than action taken several months later in response to a situation then out of control.

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.

In response, U. S. forces were withdrawn from Somalia and later conflicts were approached with fewer soldiers on the ground.

Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.

Almost forty years later, on 3 October 1935, after the League of Nations's weak response to the Abyssinia Crisis, the Italians launched a new military campaign endorsed by Benito Mussolini, the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

The Analects, the main source of the Confucianism of Confucius, actually has little to say on the matter of filial piety and some sources believe the concept was focused on by later thinkers as a response to Mohism.

Then-Bengals defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau ( who would later be the team's head coach from 2000 – 2002 ) created the zone blitz in the 1980s in response to the West Coast Offense.

The artists fought the response through letter writing and four years later succeeded in gaining the right to complete the murals.

An opinion on the matter was sought from the most esteemed ministers of the area and Cotton Mather took credit for their response when anonymously celebrating himself years later: " drawn up at their desire, by Cotton Mather the younger, as I have been informed.

Ten years later, limited liability, the key provision of modern corporate law, passed into English law: in response to increasing pressure from newly emerging capital interests, Parliament passed the Limited Liability Act 1855, which established the principle that any corporation could enjoy limited legal liability on both contract and tort claims simply by registering as a " limited " company with the appropriate government agency.

When in AD 451, Emperor Marcianus attempted to heal divisions in the Church, the response of Pope Dioscorus – the Pope of Alexandria who was later exiled – was that the emperor should not intervene in the affairs of the Church.

The elegiac couplet is presumed to be the oldest Greek form of epodic poetry ( a form where a later verse is sung in response or comment to a previous one ).

In response to Himmler's attempts to open peace overtures with the Allies in 1945 through Count Bernadotte, Churchill enquired if they should negotiate with Himmler ' and bump him off later.

In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, then a scientist at CERN, proposed and later prototyped a new hypertext project in response to a request for a simple, immediate, information-sharing facility, to be used among physicists working at CERN and other academic institutions.

It was harshly panned by both contemporary and later literary critics, with even kinder critics regarding the work as " a long-winded sob story " which many have found to be " simply unreadable ," and this negative response has been speculated to be the reason Salinger decided to quit publishing.

The thermoregulatory hypothesis ( first proposed by Darwin in 1871 and later developed by Dr. Peter Wheeler, 1984, 1985 ) suggests that a need for decreased body hair originated as a response to climate change that began approximately 3 million years ago.

Only two weeks before Kennedy had spoken in more conciliatory tones, speaking of " improving relations with the Soviet Union ": in response to Kennedy's Berlin speech, Nikita Khrushchev, days later, remarked that " one would think that the speeches were made by two different Presidents.

Jacob then settled in Migdal Eder, where his firstborn, Reuben, slept with Rachel's servant Bilhah ; Jacob's response was not given at the time, but he did condemn Reuben for it later, in his deathbed blessing.

In 2006, in response to 9 / 11 conspiracy theories surrounding its original news story, the BBC said that confusion had arisen with the common Arabic names, and that its later reports on the hijackers superseded its original story.

He and Douglas both spoke to the large audience, Douglas first and Lincoln in response two hours later.

In response, Gottwald instigated a series of purges, first to remove non-communists, later to remove some communists as well.

She later wrote of this response