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response and nobility
It was mainly in response to the almanacs that the nobility and other prominent persons from far away soon started asking for horoscopes and " psychic " advice from him, though he generally expected his clients to supply the birth charts on which these would be based, rather than calculating them himself as a professional astrologer would have done.
In response to this organized, military lawlessness, the " Rheinischer Bund ," or Rhine League was formed by and from the nobility, knights, and lords of the Church, all of whom held large stakes in the restoration of law and order to the Rhine.
On the basis of this freedom, in late 1710 Handel left Hanover for London, possibly in response to an earlier invitation from members of the English nobility.
In captured territories the nobility, Ukrainian Catholics, Jesuits and the Jews were murdered en masse ( see Massacre of Uman ), which led to a quick response by the Polish army.
But in response to pressures from the nobility, Joseph's successor, Leopold II ( 1790 – 1792 ), abrogated many of Joseph's edicts and restored certain feudal obligations.
Oskar II suggested that he prefix the name Hedin with one of the two common predicates of nobility in Sweden, " af " or " von ", but Hedin abstained from doing so in his written response to the king.
Each peasant household provided one man for his army, which met with some initial success ; their revolutionary goals alarmed the nobility, however, which raised armies in response.
However, during construction, and probably in response to political intrigues by the Piacentine nobility, Ottavio Farnese moved his court to Parma where he had the Palazzo della Pilotta constructed in 1583.
In response, Adalbert convinced the Saxon nobility to revolt.

response and withdrew
In response, the United States withdrew its ambassador.
In contrast to the simple supply / demand figure above, it was commonly found that teenagers withdrew from the labor force in response to the minimum wage, which produced the possibility of equal reductions in the supply as well as the demand for labor at a higher minimum wage and hence no impact on the unemployment rate.
In response to Sherman's assault Bragg withdrew Confederate troops on the main ridge to reinforce the Confederate right flank.
Two days later the French withdrew to a position near Guastalla in response to Austrian maneuvers, but one detachment of nearly 3, 000 men was surrounded and captured by the advancing Austrians.
However, in response to US threats to cut Japan's fishing quota in US territorial waters under the terms of the Packwood-Magnuson Amendment, Japan withdrew its objection in 1987.
In response, Belgium withdrew all of its peacekeepers, blaming UNAMIR for failing to rescue their men, despite not having the mandate or the capacity to do so, leaving the UN mission utterly unable to respond to the ensuing violence.
In March, 1996, in response to mounting disagreements, Falun Gong withdrew from the Qigong Association, after which time it operated outside the official sanction of the state.
In response, Lang withdrew all the state's funds from government bank accounts and held them at Trades Hall in cash, so the federal government could not gain access to the money.
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.
Discouraged by the lack of official response to the land claims he was putting forward, he began an association with British Communists, who published articles he wrote in their publications. In 1932 to 1933, he briefly studied economics in Moscow at the Comintern School, KUTVU ( University of the Toilers of the East ) but left after the Soviet Union ( worried about Hitler's growing power and seeing Britain and France as potential allies ) withdrew its support for the movement against British and French colonial rule in Africa.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov wrote an article in response, but he withdrew it, citing " censorship " from the Foreign Affairs editorial board.
This was the first Contest in which both Greece and Turkey participated ; Greece made its debut in the Contest in 1974 in Brighton, the following year they withdrew in response to the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, in protest of Turkey's participation in Stockholm.
In response, the de Noailles family withdrew L ’ Âge d ’ or from commercial distribution and public exhibition for more than forty years ; nonetheless, three years later, in 1933, the film was privately exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City.
In response, Charles invaded Provence, advancing to Aix-en-Provence, but withdrew to Spain rather than attacking the heavily fortified town of Avignon.
The Han forces were at this point in two groups — one led by Wang Feng, Wang Chang ( 王常 ), and Liu Xiu, which, in response to the arrival of the Xin forces, withdrew to the small town of Kunyang ( 昆陽, in modern Pingdingshan, Henan ) and one led by Liu Yan, which was still besieging Wancheng.
Considering the response given to be unsatisfactory, de Gaulle began the development of an independent French nuclear deterrent and in 1966 withdrew from NATO's military structures and expelled NATO troops from French soil.
Although Tibet withdrew in response, the Tuyühu Empire lost much of its territory in southern Gansu.
In 2000, in response to a UN resolution calling for this buffer zone to be maintained by the Lebanese government, and for the Syria to end its occupation of Lebanon, Israel withdrew its troops.
The Han forces were at this point in two groups — one led by Wang Feng ( 王鳳 ), Wang Chang ( 王常 ), and Liu Xiu, which, in response to the arrival of the Xin forces, withdrew to the small town of Kunyang ( 昆陽, in modern Pingdingshan, Henan ) and one led by Liu Yan, which was still sieging Wancheng.
The Han forces were at this point in two groups — one led by Wang Feng ( 王鳳 ), Wang Chang ( 王常 ), and Liu Xiu, which, in response to the arrival of the Xin forces, withdrew to the small town of Kunyang ( 昆陽, in modern Pingdingshan, Henan ) and one led by Liu Yan, which was still sieging Wancheng.
In response, the national SVP withdrew its support from Widmer Schlumph and its other Federal Councillor, Samuel Schmid, from the party, along with Widmer-Schlumpf's whole cantonal section.
In January 1998 the UDP voluntarily withdrew from the peace talks before they were expelled in response to a number of murders committed by the Ulster Freedom Fighters, a cover name for the UDA.
Faustin dispatched warships to the island in response to the incursion, but withdrew them after the United States guaranteed Haiti a portion of the revenues from the mining operations.
Davis appointed right-wingers Frank Miller and James Taylor to key cabinet portfolios after the election, but withdrew from a proposed austerity program following a negative public response.

response and Arcadia
As response, the Rome-based Academy of Arcadia sought to return Italian opera to what they viewed as neoclassical principles, obeying the dramatic Unities of Aristotle and replacing " immoral " plots, such as Busenello's for L ' Incoronazione di Poppea, with highly moral narratives that aimed to instruct, as well as entertain.
Briefed to come up with a concept that would bring profitability to Kendalls, Davies ' response was a blueprint which became NEXT, now the third most successful high street chain in the UK after Marks and Spencer and BHS / Arcadia Group.

response and their
In response to the lengthening days of February they budded, then bloomed their 4-inch velvety flowers.
When the frequency response characteristics of practical components are considered, their effect on stability does not present the most serious limit on the system loop gain.
Miss Upton spoke gratefully of the response of Spelman graduates and Negro friends in helping to raise the Fund, and their continuing efforts to raise money for greatly needed current expenses.
He bellowed orders and watched the alert response of some of his men and watched, too, the way a dozen or more turned their heads questioningly toward the shackled figure as though for further instruction.
In their research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA in October, 2006, they showed that both pure monetary rewards and charitable donations activated the mesolimbic reward pathway, a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food and sex.
In response, the American Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada answered that the actions had been undertaken after lengthy scriptural and theological reflection, legally in accordance with their own canons and constitutions and after extensive consultation with the provinces of the Communion.
They launched a major invasion of Gaul and northern Italy in 268, when the Romans were forced to denude much of their German frontier of troops in response to a massive invasion of the Goths from the east.
In response to the Black Codes and Southern recalcitrance, the Republicans prevented the secessionist states ' representatives from taking their seats in Congress in the fall 1865.
In response to this incursion, Alfred led an Anglo-Saxon force against the Danes who, instead of engaging the army of Wessex, fled to their beached ships and sailed to another part of Britain.
The doctrine was formulated in the second century in the first of the three senses given by Ramsey, originally as a response to Gnostic claims of having received secret teaching from Christ or the apostles ; it emphasised the public manner in which the apostles had passed on authentic teaching to those whom they entrusted with the care of the churches they founded and that these in turn had passed it on to their successors.
In their anthology, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave, editors Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott and Barbara Smith described black feminists mobilizing " a remarkable national response to the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas controversy.
The conservation profession response to this report was on the whole less than favourable, the Institute of Conservation ( ICON ) published their response under the title " A Failure of Vision ".
As a result, the malignant cells experience an abnormal response to apoptosis induction: cycle regulating genes ( such as p53, ras or c-myc ) are mutated or inactivated in diseased cells, and further genes ( such as bcl-2 ) also modify their expression in tumors.
Jensen was denied reprints of his work by his publisher and was not permitted to reply in response to letters of criticism — both extremely unusual policies for their day.
" In response to Marlborough's manoeuvres, the Elector and Marsin, conscious of their numerical disadvantage with only 40, 000 men, moved their forces to the entrenched camp at Dillingen on the north bank of the Danube.
In response to issues with the league's financial management, after the season, the Selig family requested that their names be removed from the list of board members .< ref name =" JerusalemPost-IBL ">
Brueys refused, in the belief that his squadron could provide essential support to the French army on shore, and called his captains aboard his 120-gun flagship Orient to discuss their response should Nelson discover the fleet in its anchorage.
The management of a number of societies still felt that they were unable to compete with the banks, and a new Building Societies Act was passed in 1986 in response to their concerns.
The first Persian invasion was a response to Greek involvement in the Ionian Revolt, when Athens and Eretria had sent a force to support the cities of Ionia in their attempt to overthrow Persian rule.
However, the first modern studies of magnetism only started with the development of electrodynamics by Faraday, Maxwell and others in the nineteenth century, which included the classification of materials as ferromagnetic, paramagnetic and diamagnetic based on their response to magnetization.
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.
The time between the presentation of a stimulus and an appropriate response can indicate differences between two cognitive processes, and can indicate some things about their nature.
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.

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