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.

* 1990 – Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany.

During the first Gulf War the United Nations activated a biological and chemical response team, Task Force Scorpio, to respond to any potential use of weapons of mass destruction on civilians.

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 response, the United States tightened up its trade embargo, hoping it would lead to Castro's downfall.

In response, Jacobs and many of the New West End congregants established the New London Synagogue, which became the center of Masorti Judaism in the United Kingdom.

In the United States a community emergency response team ( CERT ) can refer to

The swift expansion of the Commonwealth after decolonisation saw the newly-independent countries demand the creation of the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the United Kingdom, in response, successfully founding the Commonwealth Foundation.

On 14 July 1960, in response to requests by Prime Minister Lumumba, the UN Security Council adopted United Nations Security Council Resolution 143.

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" Emerging in the eighties as a response to the essentialist ideals of the thirties as well as to the criticism of the fifties and the advocates for education in the seventies, neoessentialism was created to try to appease the problems facing the United States at the time.

Although Secret Messages debuted at number four in the United Kingdom, it fell off the charts, failing to catch fire with a lack of hit singles in the U. K. ( though " Rock ' n ' Roll Is King " was a sizeable hit in UK, the US and Australia ) and a lukewarm media response.

In the United States the response was from the famous strip cartoon artist Winsor McCay, who drew much more realistic animated figures going through smoother, more naturalistic motion in a series of films starting with the film Little Nemo, made for Vitagraph in 1911.

In response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, former President Bush released to the public this initial list on October 10, 2001 of the FBI's top 22 Most Wanted Terrorists.

In response, United Fruit lobbied the Eisenhower administration to remove Arbenz.

In response to the coup, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 841 imposing international sanctions and an arms embargo on Haiti.

In response, a United States warship was dispatched to the area, and the Honduran government began arresting leaders.

In response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, he and Secretary of State Henry Stimson outlined the Hoover – Stimson Doctrine which held that the United States would not recognize territories gained by force.

This was done in response to a United Kingdom government request that the General Assembly " make recommendations under article 10 of the Charter, concerning the future government of Palestine ".

Brzezinski has stated that the United States provided communications equipment and limited financial aid to the mujahideen prior to the " formal " invasion, but only in response to the Soviet deployment of forces to Afghanistan and the 1978 coup, and with the intention of preventing further Soviet encroachment in the region.

The decline was also attributed to an inadequate response to broad demographic changes in the United States, particularly the growth in population among Hispanic Americans and African Americans.

* In the United States, the Department of Homeland Security was created soon after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as a means to centralize response to various threats.

This action was taken in response to an appeal obtained from the governor general and to a request for assistance from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, without consulting the island's head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, Commonwealth institutions or other usual diplomatic channels ( as had been done in Anguilla ).

* 1941 – World War II: in response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.

* 1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of the Atlantic – German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.

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:

Within the government, it was agreed that Japan would try to secure its position in China, defuse the conflict with the Soviet Union, move troops into Indochina, and prepare for a military response from Britain and possibly the United States.

The military had been certain that the United States would not take this drastic measure in response to its southern move.

President Bill Clinton, the moderator in a town meeting discussing the topic " Race In America ", in response to a participant argument that the issue was not affirmative action but " racial preferences " asked the participant a loaded question: " Do you favor the United States Army abolishing the affirmative-action program that produced Colin Powell?

In 1958, during the last months of President Camille Chamoun's term, an insurrection broke out, and 5, 000 United States Marines were briefly dispatched to Beirut on July 15 in response to an appeal by the government.

In response, the United States withdrew its ambassador.

Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, the institute adopted the European polytechnic university model and emphasized laboratory instruction from an early date.

In response, the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) froze assets and imposed an embargo, leaving some with only days of fuel.

In the United States, today ’ s United Methodist Church continues to embody Methodist traditions in their response to social needs through the General Board of Church and Society and the General Board of Global Ministries.

The American Navy has reconsidered their rules of engagement in response to this attack.

On 12 April 2009, in response to a hostage-taking incident off of the coast of Somalia by Somalian pirates, three Navy SEALs from DEVGRU simultaneously engaged and killed the three pirates who were closely holding the hostage, Captain Richard Phillips, of the freighter ship, the Maersk Alabama.

Shortly before midnight on August 4, President Johnson made a speech by radio in which he described an attack by North Vietnamese vessels on two U. S. Navy warships, USS Maddox and and requested authority to undertake a military response.

In the 18th century, in response to the growth of the British Empire and economic changes, institutions such as the Office of Works and the Navy Board grew large.

In mid-1954 Frost proposed " Project Y-2: Flat Vertical Take-Off Gyroplane " in response to requests by the US Air Force and US Navy for " vertical rising point-defense fighters ".

This was in response to actions in which Navy ships were hit by air-launched Henschel Hs 293 glide bombs and Fritz X anti-ship missiles during 1943.

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Reprisal, promising hostile action in response to an offense.

In response, the Imperial Japanese Navy's combined fleet sortied to attack the U. S. Navy fleet supporting the landings.

In an initial response, Truman called for a naval blockade of North Korea, and was shocked to learn that such a blockade could only be imposed ' on paper ', since the U. S. Navy no longer had the warships with which to carry out his request.

Ali Shirazi, representative of the Revolutionary Guards naval forces said, warned that Iran would " set fire " to Israel and the U. S. Navy in the Persian Gulf as its first response to any pre-emptive strike by America or Israel over its nuclear program.

In response, Israel Getzler presents detailed evidence that the vast majority of the sailors had been in the Navy since 1917:

It was partly a response to growing German antagonism, as expressed in the expansion of the Kaiserliche Marine ( Imperial Navy ) into a battle fleet that could threaten British naval supremacy.

He built his first submarine, Argonaut Junior, in 1894 in response to an 1893 request from the Navy for a submarine torpedo boat.

In keeping with the Department of the Navy strategic concept " Forward ... from the Sea ", these forces provide the flexibility and immediate response necessary to react to any emerging crisis from humanitarian and peacekeeping missions to major regional conflicts.

This concept was a response to a contract he was working on with a defense contractor who made aircraft engines for the US Navy.

In response to the increased danger to British shipping and other British interests, a Royal Navy escort vessel was sent to the Persian Gulf and at least one has remained there ever since.

The Australian IWR Tables were developed by the Royal Australian Navy in the 1960s in response to their need for treatment in remote locations far away from recompression chambers.

The response was overwhelming ; Navy leaders realized that they were out of touch with what the sailor on the deckplate was truly feeling.

In response to continued British interference with American shipping ( including the practice of impressment of American sailors into the British Navy ), and to British aid to American Indians in the Old Northwest, the Twelfth Congress — led by Southern and Western Jeffersonians — declared war on Britain in 1812.

* June 11 – In response to orders from Admiral Chester W. Nimitz to " bomb the enemy out of Kiska ," U. S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator bombers and U. S. Navy PBY Catalina flying boats begin a bombing campaign against Japanese forces at Kiska in the " Kiska Blitz.

* March 31 – In response to the North Vietnamese " Easter Offensive " against South Vietnam which began on March 30, the United States begins a series of deployments code-named " Constant Guard ," in which a large number of U. S. Air Force and U. S. Marine Corps squadrons return to bases in South Vietnam and Thailand and the U. S. Navy aircraft carrier presence at Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin increases from two on March 30 to six by late spring.

In response to the ever increasing re-direction charges incurred by soldiers posted from one station to another throughout the expanding British Empire an Act of Parliament ( 1795 ) was passed to provide cheap postage rates for non-commissioned officers ( NCO ) and private soldiers or Royal Navy sailors.

In addition to disaster response, the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps has been partnering with the United States Navy on their health diplomacy missions.

In response to the allegations contained in the report, the CIA appointed retired U. S. Navy Admiral David Jeremiah to review and assess the report's findings.