Also, it can be readily seen that the cutting and peeling types of failure show a steady state response, while the cracking mechanism is of a dynamic nature.

In response, the Federal Reserve decided to continue cutting interest rates, down to a near-zero range as of December 16, 2008.

Jacques Derrida, in " The Purveyor of Truth ," his response to Jacques Lacan's seminar on " The Purloined Letter " ( 1956 ), applies the metaphor to the structural analysis of texts: " By framing in this violent way, by cutting the narrated figure itself from a fourth side in order to see only triangles, one evades perhaps a certain complication.

In response to the difficulties, railroad companies began dramatically lowering workers ' wages, forcing employees to work without pay, and cutting jobs and the amount of paid work hours.

The crystals then had to be carefully prepared by skillfully cutting them into sections with facets that had a different orientation to that of the internal structure of the crystal, and the response to a magnetic field had to be painstakingly measured.

In response to the immediate execution of rebels by government forces, the RUF instead instituted a policy of cutting off the hands of captured soldiers with the intent of sending the message, " You don't hold your weapon against your brother.

Local 1000 played a prominent role in opposing Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's response to the budget crisis of 2008-9, much of which focused on cutting public services such as home care and education in order to reduce the deficit.

Another cause of the destabilization of the desert has been the cutting of poplars and willows for firewood ; in response, a reserve was established in 2003 to preserve of poplar.

The Great Strike began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in response to the cutting of wages for the second time in a year by the B & O Railroad.

In response, the Cork County Board went ahead with cutting the tops off the back of each seat to marginally improve the legroom.

It started on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in response to the cutting of wages for the second time in a year by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad ( B & O ).

This dome limits the spectral response from 300 to 2, 800 nanometers ( cutting off the part above 2, 800 nm ), while preserving the 180 degrees field of view.

Highland's response to the competition was fast and ferocious, cutting fare levels well below the competition and increasing traffic levels by 60 %.

Part VIII (" High Hedges ") is in response to concerns about hedges, typically of Leyland Cypress plants, which can grow to 6 metres or more in height, sometimes cutting out light for neighbours.

Cutting Social Security benefits beyond the already scheduled increase in the retirement age from 65 to 67 would create even more needless hardship for millions of vulnerable Americans .” This was in response to President Obama giving the task of cutting government spending to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, on October 15, 2010.

A naltrexone treatment study released by the National Institute of Health in February 2008 and published in the Archives of General Psychiatry has shown that alcoholics having a certain variant of the opioid receptor gene ( G polymorphism of SNP Rs1799971 in the gene OPRM1 ) demonstrated strong response to naltrexone and were far more likely to experience success at cutting back or discontinuing their alcohol intake altogether, while in those lacking the gene variant, naltrexone appeared to be no different from placebo.

This was in response to British Prime Minister David Cameron's comment that the United Kingdom would consider cutting off aid to any country that failed to recognize gay rights.

On May 15, 2009, students staged a walk out in response to LAUSD increasing class sizes and cutting teachers.

As a response, there were many arrests, especially of the Bedouin in the Sinai who allegedly aided the attack, and Egypt started erecting a separation barrier around the city, cutting it off from possible attacks and the nearby Bedouin community.

* Felicity-In response to the girl pulling off all of her hair in the closet, Xander comments that " people are going all Felicity with their hair ," a reference to the show's star cutting off her hair.

They can be exported in the apoptotic bodies that pinch off from the surface of the dying cell and the fact that they are engulfed by phagocytes prevents the initiation of a host response.

For a Gaussian response system ( or a simple RC roll off ), the rise time is approximated by:

In the short term, CERTs perform data gathering, especially to locate mass-casualties requiring professional response, or situations requiring professional rescues, simple fire-fighting tasks ( for example, small fires, turning off gas ), light search and rescue, damage evaluation of structures, triage and first aid.

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 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.

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.

The PRC broke off relations with Liberia on October 10, 1989 in response to Liberia's recognition of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ).

" According to Michael Palin's published diary, Palin changed his response in order to throw Cleese off.

* The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands, founded in June 2004 on the uninhabited Coral Sea Islands off the coast of Queensland, in response to the Australian government's refusal to recognize same-sex marriage.

This same study showed that dendritic cells chronically treated with morphine during their differentiation produce more interleukin-12 ( IL-12 ), a cytokine responsible for promoting the proliferation, growth, and differentiation of T-cells ( another cell of the adaptive immune system ) and less interleukin-10 ( IL-10 ), a cytokine responsible for promoting a B-cell immune response ( B cells produce antibodies to fight off infection ).

The attack was a response to Iran's missile attack three days earlier on the MV Sea Isle City, a reflagged Kuwaiti oil tanker at anchor off Kuwait.

An early famous example in popular culture is the return of Sherlock Holmes: writer Arthur Conan Doyle killed off the popular character in an encounter with his foe Professor Moriarty, only to bring Holmes back, due in large part to audience response.

As well as risking a loss of support in marginal seats in eastern Melbourne, this decision brought about a strong response from the Howard Federal government, which cut off federal funding for the project on the grounds that the Bracks government had reneged on the terms of the federal-state funding agreement.

This has the effect of " signing off " the message and in a reply message of indicating that no more response follows.

" He then brushes off a response that one of the world's greatest warriors wore a similar cap.

On May 20, 1995, primarily as a response to the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995, the United States Secret Service closed off Pennsylvania Avenue to vehicular traffic in front of the White House from the eastern edge of Lafayette Park to 17th Street.

This drug induces an allergic immune response resulting in inflammation that wards off the wart-causing virus.

* Utopia, Cyclops has Asteroid M risen from the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the San Francisco as a response to the rise of anti-mutant sentiment to form a new Mutant Nation.

** In a response to Georges Bonnet's speech of January 26, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, referring to Bonnet's alleged statement of December 6, 1938 accepting Eastern Europe as being in Germany's exclusive sphere of influence, protests that all French security commitments in that region are " now off limits ".

In response, the Assyrians invade Egypt, but Taharqa is able to hold the invaders off.

In response to developing country ( Least Developed Country, LDC ) anxiety at their worsening position in world trade, the United Nations General Assembly voted for a ' one off ' conference.

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.

In telecommunication, receive-after-transmit time delay is the time interval between ( a ) the instant of keying off the local transmitter to stop transmitting and ( b ) the instant the local receiver output has increased to 90 % of its steady-state value in response to an rf signal from a distant transmitter.

* Conventions are specified as being " off " in response to a 1NT overcall, except that 2 is still Stayman.

Parts of Yugoslavia were annexed to Hungary ; the United Kingdom immediately broke off diplomatic relations in response.