Raeder's response was that this was true, but " It was not a cold blooded affair ".

In response, Nehru sacked the defence minister Krishna Menon and sought U. S. military aid.

Cobb agrees with Mathiez that the Terror was simply a response to circumstances, a necessary evil and natural defence, rather than a manifestation of violent temperaments or excessive fervour.

As a response to the expanded military cooperation the defence proposition of 2009 stated that Sweden will not remain passive if a Nordic country or a member of the European Union were attacked.

As a response to the problem of evil, a theodicy is distinct from a defence.

As an alternative to a theodicy, a defence may be offered as a response to the problem of evil.

T ' ai chi ch ' uan training involves five elements, taolu ( solo hand and weapons routines / forms ), neigong & qigong ( breathing, movement and awareness exercises and meditation ), tuishou ( response drills ) and sanshou ( self defence techniques ).

This plan was later abandoned, but William continued to pursue a ferociously warlike defence of his French possessions and interests to the end of his life, exemplified by his response to the attempt by Elias de la Flèche, Count of Maine, to take Le Mans in 1099.

The first project he worked on after his return, the Bristol T. T. A., was designed in response to a War Office requirement for a two-seat fighter intended for home defence against Zeppelin raids.

This was the defence response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill of March 1989.

These include the Office of Ethnic Affairs, which provides information to ethnic communities and policy advice to the government ; the Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management, which manages the national response to civil defence emergencies, provides leadership of the sector including the development of standards and guidance and leads a coordinated national public education campaign ; and the Local Government Commission, which makes decisions on the structure and representation requirements of local government.

In response, the New Zealand Parliament introduced the Crimes ( Provocation Repeal ) Amendment Bill, which repealed Sections 169 and 170 of the Crimes Act 1961 and therefore abolishing the partial defence of provocation.

His Discourses Concerning Government ( the text for which Sidney lost his life ) was written during the Exclusion Crisis, as a response to Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, a defence of divine right monarchy, first published in 1680.

In March 2011 Storm Shadows were fired at Libyan air defence installations by Tornado GR4s during Operation Ellamy, Britain's response to the 2011 Libyan civil war.

In response to extensive criticism of Protect and Survive, Civil Defence: Why We Need It was also printed in November 1981 by the Home Office, which attempted to defend the reasons for civil defence.

The parliament decides on constitutional amendments, enacts legislation, passes the state budget, declares war and decides on the cessation of hostilities, adopts declarations of policy of the parliament, adopts national defence strategy, representing a long-term defence resource planning document, and national defence strategy, which defines bases for establishment and implementation of institutions, measures and activities in response to general security issues and specific challenges and threats to Croatia, implements civil supervision of the armed forces and security services, calls referenda, performs elections and appointments conforming to the constitution and applicable legislation, supervises operations of the government ( headed by the Prime Minister of Croatia ) and other civil services responsible to the parliament, grants amnesty for criminal offences and performs various other duties defined by the constitution.

In 2011, Cunningham arranged a meeting with the Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology Peter Luff, as a response to the Rolls-Royce announcement that it would lay off one quarter of its staff at its Ansty plant by 2012 due to the UK defence cuts and the plant's reliance upon repairing and servicing RAF jet engines.

" The response — air defence ".

By this time, Australian surveillance had observed that the ship's passengers had fashioned signs that read " SOS " and ' HELP " on the ship's deck and, in response, further attempts were made to contact BASARNAS, first by fax and then through the defence attaché in Jakarta.

Historians ( in particular Hugh Kennedy ) have argued that the concentric defence arose as a response to advances in siege technology in the crusader states from the 12th to the 13th century.

When he subsequently tried to organise the defence of the Ballymurphy area, he was initially chased away by the nationalist residents, who were unimpressed with the IRA's response to the events of August 1969.

The 9K34 Strela-3 (; ) man-portable air defence missile system ( MANPADS ) was developed in the Soviet Union as a response to the poor performance of the earlier 9K32 Strela 2 ( SA-7 Grail ) system.

In 1949 the United States and Canada joined the alliance and its mutual defence agreements through the North Atlantic Treaty with its Article 5 mutual defence clause which differed from the Brussels Treaty as it did not necessarily include military response.

Cisco's response was to develop a new version of Cisco IOS called IOS XR that offered modularity and memory protection between processes, lightweight threads, pre-emptive scheduling and the ability to independently restart failed processes.

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 a pamphlet named Baruch Hagever, published in 1994, and a book called Baruch Hagever: Sefer Zikaron la-Kadosh Baruch Goldstein in 1995, various rabbis praised Goldstein's action as a pre-emptive strike in response to Hamas threats of a pogrom, and wrote that it is possible to view his act as following five Halachic principles.

In the early 21st century, Loblaw brought the Superstore banner to Ontario as a response to the introduction of large grocery sections in most Canadian Wal-Mart stores and other department stores, as well as a pre-emptive strike against any plans by Wal-Mart to bring its " Supercenter " format to Canada.

When Fosdick showed the letter to Baker his negative response was: `` For God's sake, Raymond, don't show this to the President or he'll stop the war ''.

In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany.

In response, German officers attended technical schools during this period of rebuilding after the war.

Chiang Kai-shek threatened the French with war in response to maneuvering by the French and Ho Chi Minh's forces against each other, forcing them to come to a peace agreement.

Whereas previously any noble could start a war, the monarchs of Europe of necessity consolidated military power in response to the Napoleonic war.

The Afghan war and the Soviet response to Mr. Reagan's Star Wars program caused only a relatively small rise in defense costs.

The Council also condemned and executed Jan Hus and ruled on issues of national sovereignty, the rights of pagans, and just war in response to a conflict between the Kingdom of Poland and the Order of the Teutonic Knights.

In response, the Indian government ordered a full mobilisation and on 6 May 1919 declared war.

They are issued in response to questions by ordinary Muslims, and go unnoticed by those not concerned, while the much smaller number of fatwā issued on controversial subjects, such as war, jihad, and dhimmis ( particularly by extremist preachers ), sometimes get wide coverage in the media because of their political content ( see examples below ).

Hezbollah first emerged in response to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, during the Lebanese civil war.

This method was allegedly utilized by Russian secret services, over a period of two weeks on a cyberattack on Estonia in May 2007, in response to the removal of a Soviet era war memorial.

In response, Gaddafi declared that a state of " war with no limits " existed between Libya and the members of the coalition.

Military expenses increased steadily during the 3rd century, mainly in response to the need to defend against the renewed war with Sassanid Persia, which began in the middle of the 3rd century.

" In August, Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson set up a task force to study the response of U. S. prisoners of war to brainwashing.

Stalin enacted total war policy in response.

This resulted in a surge of Slovene and Croat nationalism in response and the collapse of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in 1990, the victory of nationalists in multiparty elections in most of Yugoslavia's constituent republics, and eventually civil war between the various nationalities beginning in 1991.

In an interview in 2000, Mikhail Gorbachev, in response to the comment " In the 1980s, you warned about the unprecedented dangers of nuclear weapons and took very daring steps to reverse the arms race ," said " Models made by Russian and American scientists showed that a nuclear war would result in a nuclear winter that would be extremely destructive to all life on Earth ; the knowledge of that was a great stimulus to us, to people of honor and morality, to act in that situation.

One famous such response to a query about participation in a military campaign was " You will go you will return never in war will you perish ".

Following the 9 / 11 attacks, many Americans were split on the success of the government ’ s response and the ensuing war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Books such as Dr. Joseph Lichten's A Question of Judgment ( 1963 ), written in response to The Deputy, defended Pius XII's actions during the war.

After the war, and in response to Roosevelt being elected to third and fourth terms, the Twenty-second Amendment was adopted.

During Childeric's siege and blockade of Paris in 464, the nun Geneviève ( later canonised as the city's Patron Saint ) pleaded with the Frankish King for the welfare of prisoners of war and met with a favourable response.

In 1914 Russia entered World War I in response to Austria-Hungary's declaration of war on Russia's ally Serbia, and fought across multiple fronts while isolated from its Triple Entente allies.

The war also developed a weariness in the city, owing to a lack of food in response to the disruption of agriculture.