This was part of a response to an Aboriginal Stolen Generations inquiry, which found widespread suffering had taken place amongst Australian Aboriginal children forcibly placed into the care of white parents in a little-publicised state government scheme.

The story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted in 1932 into an NBC produced cantata ( the only known editorial set to classical music ) and an Emmy Award-winning animated television special in 1974, animated by Bill Meléndez ( best known for his work on the various Peanuts specials ) and featuring the voices of Jim Backus, Susan Silo and Courtney Lemmon, with theme song performed by Jimmy Osmond.

In 1996, the story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted into a holiday musical " Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus " by David Kirchenbaum ( music and lyrics ) and Myles McDonnel ( book ).

In a data system, the system response time is the interval between the receipt of the end of transmission of an inquiry message and the beginning of the transmission of a response message to the station originating the inquiry.

After Sherman's departure, Garrison Frazier, a Baptist minister, declared in response to an inquiry about the feelings of the black community:

When Aegeus asked Pittheus for advice as to how to understand an oracle he received in response to his inquiry whether or not he was going to ever have children, Pittheus got him drunk and Aegeus ended up spending the night with Aethra.

Some particularly dislike the Calvinist response because it leaves the matter of God's motives and means largely unresolved, but the Calvinist sees it merely as following Calvin's famous dictum that " whenever the Lord shuts his sacred mouth, student of the Bible also desists from inquiry.

The first of these was published on May 15, and Miller writes of the public ’ s response, “ I began to be flooded with letters of inquiry respecting my views, and visitors flocked to converse with me on the subject .” In 1834, unable to personally comply with many of the urgent requests for information and the invitations to travel and preach that he received, Miller published a synopsis of his teachings in a “ little tract of 64 pages .” These he “... scattered, the most of them gratuitously, sending them in reply to letters of inquiry and to places which I could not visit .”

Lloyd's response was to commission a secret internal inquiry, known as the Cromer Report, which reported in 1968.

Further, the Committee concluded that the measures undertaken by the Mexican State in response to gendered violence against women leading up to the time of their inquiry were, " few and ineffective at all levels of the State ".

Subsequent to a fraud inquiry the European Commission said that Cresson in her capacity as the Research Commissioner " failed to act in response to known, serious and continuing irregularities over several years ".

The first of these was published on May 15, and Miller writes of the public's response: " I began to be flooded with letters of inquiry respecting my views ; and visitors flocked to converse with me on the subject.

In response to this increasing congestion Essex County Council announced it would hold an A12 inquiry which was tasked with deciding how to improve the A12 and prevent the congestion.

In response to these reports, and after congressional inquiries, the General Accounting Office launched an inquiry and directed the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force to conduct an internal investigation.

In response to an inquiry from a reader, sex columnist Dan Savage wrote: " Facials are degrading — and that's why they're so hot.

In a response to a press inquiry about his knowledge of the loan discounts McKeon stated, " If I had known we had got a good deal then I would have gotten all my loans from Countrywide.

The letter was written in response to Wentworth's inquiry on behalf of one of his friends who was writing a history of New Hampshire.

In response to an inquiry from a reader, sex columnist Dan Savage wrote: " Facials are degrading — and that's why they're so hot.

The official response to an inquiry by JAC about the participation of the Jewish soldiers in the war ( 1. 8 % of the total number ).

According to an inquiry response from General Mills Customer Service:

Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.

The restrained gyro-stabilized platform with reasonable response characteristics operates with an approximate equation of motion, neglecting transient effects, as follows: Af where U is a torque applied about the output axis of the controlling gyro.

This torque causes the entire system to rotate about the **yf axis, since the response to Af.

To be sure, when this is pointed out, a common response among certain churchmen is to fulminate about `` the little flock '' and `` the great crowd '' and to take solace from Paul's castigation of the `` wisdom of the wise '' in the opening chapter of First Corinthians.

A cell initiates intracellular apoptotic signaling in response to a stress, which may bring about cell suicide.

Her response was, " Wait until I'm dead before you make a movie about my life !".

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.

In 1919, the May Fourth Movement began as a response to the terms imposed on China by the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, but quickly became a protest movement about the domestic situation in China.

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.

Partly in response to international pressures, Comorians in the 1990s have become more concerned about the environment.

In response to a question about Iran's treatment of women and homosexuals, he asserted that women are respected in Iran and that " In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country ...

In response to this Etisalat and MTN Group were launched, and by 2009 there were about 18 million mobile phone users in Afghanistan.

move seemingly had a strictly personal political motive – that is, fear and jealousy of his cousin Ptolemy – and thus the expansion was not set about in response to pressing military or economic needs.

In response to concerns about the meaning of CCM, bishops in the ELCA drafted Tucson Resolution, which presented the official ELCA position.

Rocks hotter than about 300 degrees Celsius flow in response to stress ; they do not rupture in earthquakes.

On September 20 President Obama appeared on all major news programs except Fox News, a snub partially in response to remarks about the president by commentators Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Fox coverage of Obama's health-care proposal.

The manifest purpose of the tale may primarily be one of mundane instruction regarding forest safety or secondarily a cautionary tale about the dangers of famine to large families, but its latent meaning may evoke a strong emotional response due to the widely understood themes and motifs such as “ The Terrible Mother ”, “ Death ,” and “ Atonement with the Father .”

One of the complaints about these hotlines is the response time, there is often a lag time between a property owner calling about the graffiti and the actual removal of it.

Groucho was the subject of an urban legend about a supposed response to a contestant who had nine children which supposedly brought down the house.

" In his book Graham Crackers, Chapman said that this took place just before Cleese left the show, and he wondered what the woman thought about his disappearance after getting Idle's response.

The spectral response of the SSI ranged from about 0. 4 to 1. 1 micrometres.

The response contains completion status information about the request and may also contain requested content in its message body.

A tough military response was needed to end the insurgency and bring about the establishment of an independent, multi-racial Federation of Malaya in 1957.