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response and accusations
" A leaflet published in 1920 by German Jewish veterans in response to accusations of the lack of patriotism
" In response to these accusations of anti-Semitism, composer and Oberlin College professor Conrad Cummings wrote a letter to the editor defending " Klinghoffer " as " the closest analogue to the experience of Bach's audience attending his most demanding works ," and noted that, as someone of half-Jewish heritage, he " found nothing anti-Semitic about the work.
Carolyn Dinshaw argues that the poem may have been a response to accusations that Richard II had a male lover — an attempt to reestablish the idea that heterosexuality was the Christian norm.
The " four witness " standard comes from the Quran itself, a revelation Muhammad announced in response to accusations of adultery leveled at his wife, Aisha: " Why did they not produce four witnesses?
* January 4 – Hosni Mubarak, the president of Egypt, appoints a new government in response to accusations of corruption in the parliamentary elections in late 1995.
When confronted with such accusations, Laibach are quoted as replying with the ambiguous response " We are fascists as much as Hitler was a painter ".
After repeatedly asking Blake to repudiate Tarrant's accusations and not receiving a satisfactory response, and after Blake continually steps towards Avon against his warning, Avon shoots and kills Blake.
A popular myth about this movie, or at least a stretching of the truth, was that it was written in response to accusations that James Cagney was a Communist.
He did succeed in encouraging legislation to enact both election reform ( in response to accusations of corruption in the last election ), and judiciary reform.
In response to accusations that his band's lyrics desensitize people to violence, Alex Webster argued death metal fans enjoy the music only because they know the violence depicted in its lyrics is not real:
Descartes ' response to the accusations was that in that passage he had been expressly distinguishing between " the supremely good God, the source of truth, on the one hand, and the malicious demon on the other ".
In response to protests during the 2008 Olympic Torch Relay and accusations of bias from the western media, Chinese blogs, forums and websites became filled with nationalistic material, while flash counter-protests were generated through electronic means, such as the use of SMS and IM.
The company's response to these various issues has drawn praise as well as accusations of political appeasement from different parties over the years.
In response to these criticisms, and to evidence acquired after the United States invasion of Iraq, UN Secretary-General accusations were made that skimmed profits were being used to buy influence at the UN and with Kofi Annan himself.
This lunch-time talk drew accusations of sexism and careless scholarship, and an intense negative response followed, both nationally and at Harvard.
During this time, in response to the accusations of Patricia Pulling ( among others ) who felt that the " occult " elements of Dungeons & Dragons were driving people to Satanism, murder and suicide, perhaps even as part of a vast Satanic ritual abuse conspiracy, Stackpole did a research study on all American legal cases where injury or death had been attributed to gaming.
CN is facing accusations from local British Columbians over the rail line's supposed lack of response to this issue, touted as the worst chemical spill in British Columbia's history.
Defending himself, Fowler later said this was a response to Everton fans who had insulted him with false accusations of drug abuse.
In response to accusations of inaccuracies and distortion, Yigal Carmon, said:
In response to accusations of insensitivity by including scenes of New York City being devastated less than three years after the September 11 attacks, Emmerich claims that it was necessary to depict the event as a means to showcase the increased unity people now have when facing a disaster, because of 9 / 11.
In response to the accusations against the institution, professor Stephen Zunes initiated a petition titled " Open Letter in Support of Gene Sharp and Strategic Nonviolent Action " which expresses support for Dr Sharp and the Albert Einstein Institution.
In response to the accusations, Yorke left a blog on Radiohead's official site for those who were not among " those people I have managed to offend by doing nothing.
In response, Wellesley politely rebuffed Munro's accusations and defended his action as necessary because he had received and acted upon incorrect intelligence regarding the Maratha position.
In response, Kiriyenko sued Novaya Gazeta and Rozhnov for libel, and in passing judgement in favour of Kiriyenko the court ordered Novaya Gazeta to retract all publications relating to the accusations, and noted " Novaya gazeta ’ s content on the missing IMF funds include a great deal of unproven information " and also went on to say that the newspaper " is obliged to publish only officially proven information linking Mr Kiriyenko with embezzlement.
In response to ongoing accusations surrounding the Clintons ' investment in a real estate development known as Whitewater in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Clinton's Attorney General Janet Reno had appointed an independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, to investigate those accusations in 1994.

response and insensitivity
The national response to the AIDS epidemic in minority communities was slow during the ' 80s and ' 90s, showing an insensitivity to ethnic diversity in prevention efforts and AIDS health services.
In a 1992 article, he describes how the federal government ’ s national response to the AIDS epidemic in minority communities has been slow, showing insensitivity to ethnic diversity in preventive medicine, community health maintenance, and AIDS treatment services.
* An example of a hypogonadism resulting from the lack of hormone response is androgen insensitivity syndrome, where there are inadequate receptors to bind the testosterone, resulting in a female appearance despite XY chromosomes.
In response to these allegations, Richardson said, " I just want to take a moment to say I ’ m really hurt by the recent and false allegations of insensitivity and misconduct.

response and for
He recalled that in California after a critic had attacked him for `` still trying to sell Bruckner to the Americans '', the public's response at the next concert was a standing ovation.
The response of reaction is dominated by a concern for what is vanishing.
A fire had just been lighted, he saw, and things had been set out for drinks, and, like any stray, his response to these comforts was instantaneous.
Previous experiences are obviously of great importance for the qualitative and quantitative emotional response.
While there are many different possibilities for the timing of casework intervention, the experiments recently reported from a variety of traditional settings all point up the importance of an immediate response to the client's initial need for help.
She looked confused at this, and I felt sure it had been a wrong response for me to make.
But in any event, full credit should be given to the Cost Section for its express and overt recognition of a vital distinction too often ignored in utility-cost analyses: namely, that between a cost allocation designed to reflect the actual behavior of costs in response to changes in rates of output of different classes of utility service ; ;
It has become painfully clear that the very attempt to make the language of social research free of values by erecting mathematical and physical models, is itself a conditioned response to a world which pays a premium price for technological manipulation.
He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.
They began to describe in detail the woman's capacity for response.
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.
Santa's lieutenants in charge of the Journal-Bulletin Santa Claus Fund are looking for the usual generous response this year from Cranston residents.
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.
If the response variable is expected to follow a parametric family of probability distributions, then the statistician may specify ( in the protocol for the experiment or observational study ) that the responses be transformed to stabilize the variance.
It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.
Callicott is, perhaps, best known for his research which explores an Aldo Leopold ethic as a response to global climate change.
* 1942 – Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.
Johnson, in the face of the national mania over new railroad construction, and in response to the need in his own district for additional mode of transportation, found himself moderating in his opposition to them.
Lincoln commented, in response to Hugh McCullough's criticism of Johnson's behavior, that " I have known Andy Johnson for many years ; he made a bad slip the other day, but you need not be scared ; Andy ain't a drunkard.
In response to demands for lower-cost public higher education in Arizona, ASU is developing a number of small, undergraduate-only college locations throughout Arizona.
His self-observation in multiple mirrors revealed that he was contracting his whole body prior to phonation in preparation for all verbal response.
Of course, a loss of radio communications may also be the cause for a lack of response, in which case a pilot would usually squawk 7600 anyway.
* Any attempt to hijack will be considered an act of aggression against the country and will prompt a response fit for an aggressor.

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