In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.

A promising response then is to point out that the assertion " evil exists " implies an ethical standard against which moral value is determined, and then to argue that this standard implies the existence of God ( see argument from morality.

is a question sometimes given in response to an incredible assertion.

* acquiescence response bias, which is the tendency to agree with any assertion, regardless of its content

A dedicated member of the Orange Order and staunchly Protestant, he famously stated, in April 1934, in response to Éamon de Valera's assertion that Ireland was a " Catholic nation ": The hon.

" Later in response to Press's assertion that "... they are just shutting down progressive talk from one city after another ," Senator Harkin responded, " Exactly, and that's why we need the fairthat's why we need the Fairness Doctrine back.

One dialetheist response is to offer a distinction between assertion and rejection.

The deflationist response is that the assertion that truth is a norm of assertion can be stated only in the form of the following infinite conjunction:

The result of an attribute query is a SAML response containing an assertion, which itself contains an attribute statement.

The assertion consumer service processes the response, creates a security context at the service provider and redirects the user agent to the target resource.

In response to Martin's assertion that foreign policy rests with the cabinet, Karygiannis said that a clear majority of Parliament saw it differently and urged Martin to live up to his promise to give MPs real clout.

" ( in response to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney's assertion that " There is no more corruption in unions than there is in business or in Congress.

In 2005, Alan Sykes argued that National-Anarchism represents a further evolution in the thinking of the radical right rather than an entirely new dimension, a response to the new situation of the late 20th century in which the apparent triumph of materialist capitalism on a global scale requires a greater assertion of the centrality of anti-materialist nationalism.

In the book-length interview Hitchcock / Truffaut ( 1967 ), in response to fellow filmmaker François Truffaut's assertion that aspects of the remake were by far superior, Hitchcock replied " Let's say the first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional ".

Her response to this assertion was that she was sworn to uphold the law, and that the death penalty was part of state law.

The response of reaction is dominated by a concern for what is vanishing.

When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.

Despite all this, the idea apparently has captured the imagination of countless youths whose parents are probably more surprised by the response than anybody else.

The recovery will probably be sparked by a rising rate of housing starts next spring in response to more readily available mortgage credit, as well as by an expansion of Government spending, well sustained consumer spending, and some rebuilding of business inventories.

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.

Old Mr. Pocket's frantic response to life imprisonment with a useless, social-climbing wife is to `` put his two hands into his disturbed hair '' and `` make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it '', whereas Joe Gargery endures the shrewish onslaughts of Mrs. Joe by apologetically drawing `` the back of his hand across and across his nose ''.

The effect is that the platform returns from an off-level position at a rapid rate until it is nearly level, at which point the platform is controlled by a proportional servo with low enough frequency response so that the noise has little effect on the leveling process.

This time the orchestra gave him some superb support fired by response to his own high mood.

Other calls include those given by a female in response to the advertisement call and a release call given by a male or female during unwanted attempts at amplexus.

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.

Any information may be conveyed by an analog signal ; often such a signal is a measured response to changes in physical phenomena, such as sound, light, temperature, position, or pressure.

Suggested alternatives include: a community under the pressure of starvation or extreme social stress, dismemberment and cannibalism as religious ritual or in response to religious conflict, the influx of outsiders seeking to drive out a settled agricultural community via calculated atrocity, or an invasion of a settled region by nomadic raiders who practiced cannibalism ; such peoples have existed in other times and places, e. g. the Androphagi of Europe.

* 1919 – Gandhi organizes a day of " prayer and fasting " in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre by the British.

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.

In 1800, as the result of a professional disagreement over the galvanic response advocated by Galvani, he invented the voltaic pile, an early electric battery, which produced a steady electric current.

An ATP request packet could be answered by up to eight response packets.

This way, it could respond to duplicate requests with the same transaction ID by resending the same response data, without performing the actual operation again.

A further approach, elaborated by André Malraux in works such as The Voices of Silence, is that art is fundamentally a response to a metaphysical question (' Art ', he writes, ' is an ' anti-destiny ').

His remaining secular works in this late period fall into three categories: first, large scale cantatas and one oratorio Habsburg written on patriotic themes or in response to the international political situation, pedagogical works written to aid his students in voice, and finally simple songs, rounds or canons written for home entertainment ; many with original poetry by the composer.

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.

The removal of dying cells by phagocytes occurs in an orderly manner without eliciting an inflammatory response.

Fas-induced apoptosis can be blocked by use of FLIPs ( FLICE-inhibitory proteins, which inhibit caspases-8 and-10 ), Bcl-2 ( which prevents cytochrome c release and the subsequent activation of caspase 9 ), and CrmA ( Cytokine response modifier A ).

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

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

Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik was sworn in as Prime Minister on January 29, 2011, in response to the 2011 Egyptian revolution ; he was succeeded on 5 March by Essam Sharaf, in response to continued protests.

* 1966-In response, the Spanish Foreign Office Minister Fernando Castiella, published and presented to the Spanish Courts the " Spanish Red Book " ( named so because of its cover ; its reference is " Negociaciones sobre Gibraltar.

David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel, appreciated Adenauer's response in playing down the affair and not pursuing it further, as it would have burdened the relationship between the two new states.

British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin heard Marshall's radio broadcast speech and immediately contacted French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault to begin preparing a quick European response to ( and acceptance of ) the offer.

Although the President was unharmed, 21 people were killed in the bombing, including the South Korean deputy Prime Minister, and Burma suspended diplomatic relations in response.

In response to the judgment, the Parliament of Australia, controlled by the Labor Party led by Prime Minister Paul Keating, enacted the Native Title Act 1993 ( NTA ).

* 1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.

Stroessner's response was to employ the state's virtually unlimited power by giving a free hand to the military and to Minister of Interior Edgar Ynsfrán, who began to harass, terrorize, and occasionally murder family members of the regime's foes.

On 6 July 2003, in response to a proposal to send 300 police and 2, 000 troops from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea to Guadalcanal, warlord Harold Keke announced a ceasefire by faxing a signed copy of the announcement to the Solomons Prime Minister, Allan Kemakeza.

** In Paris, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, in response to rumours ( which are true ) that he is seeking to end the French alliance system in Eastern Europe, gives a speech highlighting his government's commitment to the cordon sanitaire.

** 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 to a Four Corners program aired on 21 February 1994, on 23 February 1994, the Minister for Foreign Affairs Gareth Evans announced a ' root and branch ' review of ASIS.

* 1983-U. S. invades Grenada in response to a coup d ’ état by Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard on the Caribbean island.

The King personally attended the festivities ; he gave a speech that received a blistering response by Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba.

In response, the Germans occupied northern Italy and founded the Italian Social Republic ( Repubblica Sociale Italiana or RSI ) with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini as its " Head of State " and " Minister of Foreign Affairs ".

In response to a sarcastic interjection about " starving permanent secretaries ", Sir Humphrey patronises her as " dear lady " ( as he did " that Wainwright female " in the TV series ).< ref >< Jay & Lynn ( 2010 ) Yes, Prime Minister, especially pages 14, 32 and 81-3 .</ ref > Emily Joyce, who played Claire both at Chichester and in London, was forty-one when the play opened.

This normally includes the Leader of the Government in the Senate representing the Prime Minister in response to questions asked by senators about general government policy.

In response to a backlash against the Treaty, politician Winston Peters, the 13th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand ( and founder of the New Zealand First Party ), and others have campaigned to remove vague references to the Treaty from New Zealand law, although the New Zealand Māori Council case of 1990 indicated that even if this does happen, the Treaty may still be legally relevant.