G. Maximoff ) In response to the anarchists ' resistance, the Cheka orchestrated a massive retaliatory campaign of repression, executions, and arrests against all opponents of the Bolshevik government, in what came to be known as " Red Terror ".

In response, opponents of the Sino-Bodic hypothesis note that the existence of shared lexical material only serves to establish an absolute relationship between two language families, not their relative relationship to one another.

In response to the court's decision in Baker and the legislature's enactment of civil unions, opponents of the legal recognition of same-sex unions formed an opposition organization called Take Back Vermont.

Hamilton decided to launch a measured and extensive defense and explanation of the proposed Constitution as a response to the opponents of ratification, addressing the people of the state of New York.

Sometimes a player may fake a tell, hoping to induce their opponents to make poor judgments in response to the false tell.

" In response, Whig opponents attributed OK, in the sense of " Oll Korrect ," to Andrew Jackson's bad spelling.

Reagan's response of " I am paying for this microphone, Mr. Green ," was wildly applauded by the audience and even his fellow Republican primary opponents, none of whom noted that he got the moderator's name wrong.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee have all been vocal opponents of the PATRIOT Act of 2001, the proposed ( as of 2003 ) PATRIOT 2 Act, and other associated legislation made in response to the threat of domestic terrorism that it believes violates either the letter and / or the spirit of the U. S. Bill of Rights.

The potential success of the third Home Rule Bill in 1912 introduced serious tensions: opponents of the Bill organised the Ulster Volunteer Force in January 1913 while supporters formed the Irish Volunteers in response.

In response to the argument that Article 23 legislation is constitutionally required, opponents to the government bill point out that the Basic Law does not set up a specific time for passage of the legislation, and that the Basic Law also constitutionally requires that the HK government work toward a system of universal suffrage.

J¹ to M with the longer 5 cm KwK 39 L / 60 cannon in response to increasingly better armed and armoured opponents.

His opponents blamed him for various problems arising in the second term, including a slow response by his environmental agency to a big fish kill, and problems at two state centers for the developmentally disabled.

The United States ' covert response included financing Manley's political opponents, the instigation of mutiny in the Jamaican army, and the fitting out of a private mercenary army against the Manley government.

In response to that, and particularly the arrest and exile of several vocal opponents by the Russian troops, namely bishop of Kiev Józef Andrzej Załuski, bishop of Cracow Kajetan Sołtyk, and hetman Wacław Rzewuski with his son Seweryn, Polish magnates Adam Krasiński, Bishop of Kamenets, Kazimierz Pułaski and Michał Krasiński and their allies decided to form a confederatio-a legal military association opposing the government.

" The interviewer noted that Granholm would be criticized, but she hoped that everyone would “ keep those values in mind ... through the budget process .” Betsy DeVos, the chairman of the Michigan Republican Party ( 1996-2000, 2003-05 ), was upset that Granholm had decided “ to cloak her views on balancing the budget in religious terms in order to demonize her political opponents .” Granholm responded that she did not think her response was controversial and said that many people of faith were serving in state government.

If the team in control knew the answer but believed that their opponents did not, they could Dare in hopes of having the opponents Double Dare them in response.

In response to the bill and the referendum result, several legal actions were initiated by opponents to the independence of Quebec, questioning the legality of secession.

According to New York Review of Books editor Barbara Epstein, who was delighted by Sokal's hoax, within the humanities the response to the book was bitterly divided, with some delighted and some enraged ; in some reading groups, reaction was polarized between impassioned supporters and equally impassioned opponents of Sokal.

A connection has been made by opponents of the decision with Wikileaks cables suggesting the US and UK governments wanted to end Press TV's broadcasting licence in response to the Iranian government's jamming of the BBC Persian Service and the Voice of America.

In response, opponents of Howard have said that he himself has done a U-turn by asking for a referendum at all.

There was no penalty for an incorrect response in these rounds, and if the first team to buzz answered incorrectly, their opponents could then buzz in and provide an answer.

To allow for popular discussion of the treaties and in response to claims made by opponents of the treaty in the U. S. that Panama was incapable of democratically ratifying them, restrictions on the press and on political parties were lifted several weeks prior to the vote.

Afansyev's period as editor of Pravda saw a lukewarm response to Mikhail Gorbachev's changes in the late 1980s, vacillating between support for Gorbachev's policies and for those of his opponents in the leading circles of the party, while Pravdas readership witnessed a precipitous decline, dropping by around half in the course of Gorbachev's first four years at the helm of the Soviet Union.

The day after the bill was reintroduced two Ohioans, Rep. Joshua Giddings and Sen. Salmon P. Chase, published a free soil response titled, “ Appeal of the Independent Democrats in congress to the People of the United States .” The appeal stated:

** In response to the events of March 7 and 9 in Selma, Alabama, President Lyndon B. Johnson sends a bill to Congress that forms the basis for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

In response, a coalition of 96 scientific and educational organizations wrote a letter to the conference committee, urging that the amendment be stricken from the final bill, arguing that evolution is, in the scientific fields, regarded as fact and that the amendment creates the mis-perception that evolution is not fully accepted in the scientific community, and thus weakens science curricula.

As a response, a coalition of 96 scientific and educational organizations wrote a letter to the conference committee, urging that the amendment be stricken from the final bill.

owner may change a thermostat setting in response to a utility bill

In response to Taylor's alleged crimes against humanity, the United States Congress passed a bill In November 2003 that offered two million dollars for his capture.

As a response to the rising union movement and Cold War hostilities, the bill could be seen as a response by business to the post-World War II labor upsurge of 1946.

The Act, § 15 of the appropriations bill for the Army for 1879, found at, was a response to, and subsequent prohibition of, the military occupation by U. S. Army troops of the former Confederate States during the ten years of Reconstruction ( 1867 – 1877 ) following the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ).

CellAntenna lost its case, but as a response have supported legislation ( The Safe Prisons Communications Act ) sponsored by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Representative Kevin Bradley ; the bill attempting to amend the Communications Act of 1934 was left in committee in the House.

In response to the proposed bill, Judy Lennon, the Patton Village mayor, lobbied in an attempt to have the bill blocked.

in response to a land reform bill sponsored by Caesar, who was then consul.

The House Republican leadership withdrew the bill in response to the banking industry opposition, but vowed to bring it back when Congress returned from recess.

In 2004, the Florida Senate, in response to the band's actions, passed a bill barring the " exploitation of self-murder " for " commercial or entertainment purposes ," subsequently signed into law by Governor Bush.

' The claims of Palestinian complicity in the murder of the European Jews were to some extent a defensive strategy, a preemptive response to the Palestinian complaint that if Israel was recompensed for the Holocaust, it was unjust that Palestinian Muslims should pick up the bill for the crimes of European Christians.

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 reports of human rights atrocities during World War II, the Institute in 1942 appointed a committee of lawyers and political scientists, supposedly representing the principle cultures of the world, to compile a list of agreed-upon individual rights: an international bill of rights.

The bill, which did not pass the House of Commons, was intended primarily as a satirical response to the contemporaneous American Helms-Burton Act.

In response to the bill and the publicity that it generated, the Scottish Executive announced a review of the impact that the charges had on the chronically sick and full time students just three hours prior to the bill being debated.

* In response to the demonstration, two of the pro-government parties in the Legislative Council expressed reservations about the bill, and informal polls of the Legislative Council delegates suggested that the ability of the government to pass the bill was in doubt.