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response and calamities
They agreed that the elder Pārśva should speak first, and he said: " The world should be made peaceable, with a long-lived king, plentiful harvests, and joy throughout the land, with none of the myriad calamities ", to which the ascetic had no response and so was bound to become Pārśva's disciple, and he was given full ordination as a bhikṣu.

response and within
Both opioids and amphetamines induce a therapeutic response very quickly, showing results within twenty-four to forty-eight hours ; the therapeutic ratios for both opioids and amphetamines are greater than those of the tricyclic anti-depressants.
The 3 dB bandwidth of an electronic filter or communication channel is the part of the system's frequency response that lies within 3 dB of the response at its peak, which in the passband filter case is typically at or near its center frequency, and in the lowpass filter is near 0 hertz.
Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.
In France, zolpidem has also been used in diagnosis, and response may occur within the same time period.
The frequency response may be tailored to, for instance, eliminate unwanted frequency components from an input signal, or to limit an amplifier to signals within a particular band of frequencies.
Then a mathematical procedure is used to find a filter transfer function which can be realized ( within some constraints ) and which approximates the desired response to within some criterion.
There are many biochemical consequences to the heat shock response within the cell, including slowed cell division and increased sensitivity to ionizing radiation therapy.
Davies, the gospel of Matthew was written as a direct response to developments within the Jewish community following the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD.
An eighteenth-century response to the novel from the Monthly Review reads: “ We must hear no more of enchanted forests and castles, giants, dragons, walls of fire and other ‘ monstrous and prodigious things ;’ – yet still forests and castles remain, and it is still within the province of fiction, without overstepping the limits of nature, to make use of them for the purpose of creating surprise .”
The trait of the genre of horror is that it provokes a response, emotional, psychological or physical within each individual that causes someone to react with fear.
This enzyme phosphorylates a protein known as eIF-2 in response to new viral infections ; eIF-2 is a eukaryotic translation initiation factor that forms an inactive complex with another protein, called eIF2B, to reduce protein synthesis within the cell.
In January 1604, King James VI of Scotland and I of England convened the Hampton Court Conference where a new English version was conceived in response to the perceived problems of the earlier translations as detected by the Puritans, a faction within the Church of England.
In response to this problem, some LED lighting systems have been designed with an added heating circuit at the expense of reduced overall electrical efficiency of the system ; additionally, research has been done to develop heat sink technologies that will transfer heat produced within the junction to appropriate areas of the luminaire.
The second application for UV microscopes is contrast enhancement where the response of individual samples is enhanced, relative to their surrounding, due to the interaction of light with the molecules within the sample itself.
" The response from fans was overwhelmingly positive within a couple of hours, leading to speculation of a full-blown Meat Puppets reunion in the near future.
The meta element has two uses: either to emulate the use of the HTTP response header, or to embed additional metadata within the HTML document.
The sea ice at the North Pole is typically around thick, although ice thickness, its spatial extent, and the fraction of open water within the ice pack can vary rapidly and profoundly in response to weather and climate.
In response to The Age of Enlightenment, Jewish Emancipation, and Haskalah, elements within German Jewry sought to reform Jewish belief and practice in the early 19th century.
According to Pavlov's theory of classical conditioning, the experimenters should have been able to condition a feared response within the rhesus monkeys to the evolutionary irrelevant stimuli because the Pavlovian model posits that any UCS can elicit a CR.
The success of some strategies of gene therapy depends on the efficient insertion of therapeutic genes at the appropriate chromosomal target sites within the human genome, without causing cell injury, oncogenic mutations ( cancer ) or an immune response.
The orbit of a planet around the Sun is not really an ellipse but a flower-petal shape because the major axis of each planet's elliptical orbit also precesses within its orbital plane, partly in response to perturbations in the form of the changing gravitational forces exerted by other planets.

response and empire
" Believing the response favorable, Croesus attacked, but it was his own empire that ultimately was destroyed by the Persians.
The emperor mobilized his active forces in response to the French attacks, and began the process of calling up troops from the states of the empire, establishing a defensive line at Ettlingen, near Karlsruhe.
In the " evil empire " speech, which also dealt with domestic issues, Reagan made the case for deploying NATO nuclear armed missiles in Western Europe as a response to the Soviets installing new nuclear armed missiles in Eastern Europe.
Before his death, however, Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople had drawn up the Ecthesis in response to the orthodox synodical letter of Sophronius, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and on learning of the death of Pope Honorius had convinced the Emperor to issue this document as an imperial edict in December 638, thus valid across the entire empire.
Augustine would be inspired to write The City of God in response to murmurings that the capture of Rome and the disintegration of its empire was due to the advent of the Christian era and its intolerance of the old gods who had defended the city for over a thousand years.
In response, its leader, Bae Jungson, asked Khubilai Khan to secure Jeolla Province and put it under the direct rule of the empire, just as preceding rebels had.
The 1950s saw a continuation of this type of crisis-driven work, with additional demands for help following the Korean War and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, but also the opening of new work in Africa, Asia and the Middle East in response to the decline in Britain's colonial empire.
The author might be arguing consciously for empire, but hidden within that argument will be a response to a counterargument and a presentation of an emerging synthesis.
Vijayanagara empire rose in response to the Muslim intervention and covered the most of south India and acted as a bulwark against Mughal expansion into the south.
Later on in the year, in response to a request that representatives of the colony should be sent to a conference on colonial affairs in London, Higinbotham moved and succeeded in carrying five resolutions declining to send representatives, and repeating his views that the internal affairs of a colony are its own concern and that the colonial office should only look after matters that effect the whole empire.
In response to the conscription order, even more men deserted and joined the agrarian rebels, throwing the northern central part of the empire into a state of confusion.
Almost in response, the UFO broadcasts its message of invasion and a new empire on earth, and Shinoda reveals that the aliens are after Godzilla's DNA so that they may re-form their bodies.
In response, the British blockaded Spain in 1797 and separated her colonial empire from the mother country.
Francis Joseph ’ s October Diploma, which officially divided the empire into the dualist Astro-Hungarian monarchy, left Rieger and many Czechs nationalists dissatisfied with the lack of response by the government towards their wish for autonomy.
Panamanian Police Chief José Remón led a coup d ' état in response to Chanis's refusal to overturn a Panama Supreme Court decision invalidating a contract between an abbatoir that was " part of Remón's business empire " and several powerful Panamanian families.

response and threats
However, the rebellion of Tacfarinas had shown how exposed Africa Proconsularis was to its west and how the Mauretanian client kings were unable to provide protection to the province, and it is thus possible that Caligula's expansion was a prudent response to potential future threats.
Although no other instances of lion predation on chimpanzees have been recorded, the larger group sizes of savanna chimps may have developed as a response to threats from these big cats.
* In the United States, the Department of Homeland Security was created soon after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as a means to centralize response to various threats.
Research into moose predation suggests that their response to perceived threats is learned rather than instinctual.
A treaty with Galicia – Volhynia, signed in 1219, is usually considered the first conclusive evidence that the Baltic tribes in the area were uniting in response to these threats.
After the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the Mumbai Police created specialized, quick response teams to deal with terror threats.
The security doctrine still states that " Sweden pursues a policy of non-participation in military alliances ," but permits cooperation in response to threats against peace and security.
He was concerned with threats to established political, social, and religious values and elites ; he emphasized the need for national leadership in response to radicalism, uncertainty, and materialism.
After 1570, the Algonquians consolidated under Chief Powhatan in response to threats from these other groups on their trade network.
However, in response to US threats to cut Japan's fishing quota in US territorial waters under the terms of the Packwood-Magnuson Amendment, Japan withdrew its objection in 1987.
A statement issued on the embassy's website said: " The US Embassy in Sana ' a is closed today, in response to ongoing threats by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ( AQAP ) to attack American interests in Yemen ".
* 501 BC — In response to threats by the Sabines, Rome creates the office of dictator.
As a response to these threats a program also called DeCSS but with an unrelated function was developed.
The result was the initial construction of what later became the Great Wall of China, which was built by joining and strengthening the walls made by the feudal lords, which would be expanded and rebuilt multiple times by later dynasties, also in response to threats from the north.
Although some propose a " Biosecurity Protocol " to extend the Biosafety Protocol to organisms considered weapons ( already controlled by UN arms proliferation treaties ), others argue this is an inappropriate response to military threats, and argue for a broad biodefense instead.
Dr. Barbara Frederickson states that, “ Because positive emotions arise in response to diffuse opportunities, rather than narrowly focused threats, positive emotions momentarily broaden people ’ s attention and thinking, enabling them to draw on higher-level connections and a wider-than-usual range of percepts or ideas through cognitive, psychology, physical, or social resources ”.
* Fear, an emotional response to threats and danger
At the opening of the session in March 1830, the King delivered a speech that contained veiled threats to the opposition ; in response, 221 deputies ( an absolute majority ) condemned the government, and Charles subsequently prorogued and then dissolved parliament.
In response to the failed sanctions against Austria following a coalition including Jörg Haider's party having come to power, and fears about possible future threats to the stability of the new member states to be admitted in enlargement, the Treaty of Nice for the first time adopted formal rules for the application of sanctions against a Member State.
In response to threats of ongoing Indian attacks, Camp Peña Colorado was established in 1879 a few miles south of the future site of Marathon.
It was founded in 1962 in response to environmental threats to the local countryside and has continued to grow.
Nik Aziz ’ s remarks were made in response to the criticisms and threats made by UMNO against Democratic Action Party ’ s Dr Boo Cheng Hau, the opposition leader in Johor when Dr Boo was reported to have compared “ bumiputeraism ” with state apartheid.
The king continued to exercise the right to occupy and use any castle in the kingdom in response to external threats, in those cases he would staff the occupied castles with his own men ; the king also retained the right to authorise the construction of new castles through the issuing of licenses to crenellate.
* Arecibo Science Advocacy Partnership ( ASAP ), established to protect the future of the Arecibo Observatory in response to NSF funding threats

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