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response and diminishing
The backward motion of the cannon as its projectile leaves the bore is termed its recoil and the effectiveness of the cannon can be measured in terms of how much this response can be diminished, though obviously diminishing recoil through increasing the overall mass of the cannon means decreased mobility.
* In response to the concern that progressive taxation creates an unfair psychological burden on the wealthy ; if the utility gained from income exhibits diminishing marginal returns, as many psychologists assert ( see Weber-Fechner law ), then for the tax burden to be shared in a utilitarian way the tax-bill must increase non-linearly with income.
Classical economists often used agricultural examples of diminishing returns, such as the amount of yield from a fixed area of land in response to inputs like seed or labor.
The misunderstanding has been generally repeated by other economists, except Kenneth Boulding who frequently referred to the eventual necessity to limit investment growth in response to environmental impacts and diminishing returns and later by P. F.

response and Iraqi
** U. S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of Baghdad, in response to an Iraqi plot to assassinate former U. S. President George Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.
In response, Iran in the early 1970s became the main patron of Iraqi Kurdish groups fighting for independence from Iraq.
He went on to say that after the ineffectiveness of the Iraqi response to U. S. bombing campaigns, the media no longer used the term " Elite ".
In response, Faisal cabled to the Iraqi Legation in London: " Although everything is normal now in Iraq, and in spite of my broken health, I shall await the arrival of Sir Francis Humphrys in Bagdad, but there is no reason for further anxiety.
* The US launched Operation Desert Strike with a series of cruise missile attacks on Iraqi targets in Kut, Iskandariyah, Nasiriyah, and Tallil in response to Iraqi troops moving to the northern part of Iraq.
In response for Iraqi troops moving to the north, the US extends the southern No-Fly Zone to latitude 33 degrees north.
In response to personal intervention from King Hussein of Jordan, Saddam released Uday, banishing him to Switzerland as the assistant to the Iraqi ambassador there.
When criticized, the U. S. military's response was to point out that these men were no ordinary combatants, and to express hope that confirmation of the deaths would bring closure to the Iraqi people.
The programme was introduced by United States President Bill Clinton's administration in 1995, as a response to arguments that ordinary Iraqi citizens were inordinately affected by the international economic sanctions aimed at the demilitarisation of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, imposed in the wake of the first Gulf War.
General Buford Blount, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, said it was a response to Iraqi fire from the hotel.
Then, in response to the IPC's rejection of this proposal, Qasim issued Public Law 80, which would have taken away 99. 5 % of the IPC's ownership and established an Iraqi national oil company to oversee the export of Iraqi oil.
The 1991 uprising in northern Iraq resulted in an Iraqi military response towards the rebels in both northern and southern Iraq.
* 1968-1969-Al-Dawa founded by Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr in response to repression of Shi ' i religious academies in Najaf by the Iraqi Ba ' ath regime.
In response to Israeli attacks on Gaza, al-Sadr called for reprisals against US troops in Iraq: " I call upon the honest Iraqi resistance to carry out revenge operations against the great accomplice of the Zionist enemy.
Twenty-first Air Force controlled the largest airlift in history during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, ensuring the success of our response to Iraqi aggression.
In response he wrote a report stating there was no evidence of Iraqi involvement and got it signed by all relevant agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the CIA.
* August 6 – The United States issues its first orders deploying military forces in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, sending two squadrons of United States Air Force F-15 Eagle fighters to the Persian Gulf region and several U. S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers from the continental United States to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
* August 24 – Early in the build-up of forces in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the U. S. Air Force has 222 fighters, ground-attack aircraft, and bombers deployed in and around Saudi Arabia.
In response he wrote a report stating there was absolutely no evidence of Iraqi involvement and got it signed by all relevant agencies ( the FBI, the CIA, etc .).
Both Sidqi and Jawad were sent as part of a military mission by the Iraqi government in response to an invitation from the Turkish government.
When it began, the United States Defense Department and CENTCOM stated that increasing numbers of bombings of Iraqi installations in the region were merely in response to more attacks by the air-defense forces of that country.

response and cooperation
Early detection and rapid response to bioterrorism depend on close cooperation between public health authorities and law enforcement ; however, such cooperation is currently lacking.
In response to revolt in the Italian colony of Libya, Fascist Italy abandoned previous liberal-era colonial policy of cooperation with local leaders.
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.
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.
In February 1989, North Yemen joined Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt informing the Arab Cooperation Council ( ACC ), an organization created partly in response to the founding of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and intended to foster closer economic cooperation and integration among its members.
During that time, Soviet imperialism in Eastern Europe, its delayed withdrawal from Iran, and the breakdown of Allied cooperation in Germany provide the backdrop of escalating tensions for the Truman Doctrine ; the U. S. response has been much debated by historians.
In 1994, working in cooperation with the emergency response agencies of Covington, KY, 911 Mapping Systems, Inc. founded in 1992 by Robert Graham Thomas Jr., implemented the first real-time on-screen E911 street map display to highlight the caller's position, nearest available emergency responders and other relevant information such as fire hydrants, hazardous materials and / or other data maintained by the city.
In response to the criticism, the UFC increased cooperation with state athletic commissions and redesigned its rules to remove the less palatable elements of fights while retaining the core elements of striking and grappling.
Written partly in response to Social Darwinism and in particular to Thomas H. Huxley's Nineteenth Century essay, " The Struggle for Existence ", Kropotkin's book drew on his experiences in scientific expeditions in Siberia to illustrate the phenomenon of cooperation.
Among the report's findings were the revelation that the vast majority of allegations made in the diocese were not reported to the Garda, as required by the Church's 1996 guidelines ; that the Bishop of the Diocese, John Magee, and others had withheld full cooperation with the Government's investigation and had deliberately misrepresented his own response to the allegations ; and that the Vatican itself had both refused to cooperate in the investigation and counseled the Diocese that the 1996 guidelines were not binding.
Wikileaks also applies this technique in cooperation with volunteer servers worldwide in response to its account termination at Amazon. com as well as heavy cyber attack upon its server after its controversial publication of secret United States diplomatic cables around the world in order to make it " impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the Internet ".
Under the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan, the United States is obliged to defend Japan in close cooperation with the Japan Self-Defense Forces for maritime defense, ballistic missile defense, domestic air control, communications security ( COMSEC ), and disaster response operations.
Along with these albums, she established a cooperation with Yugoslav folk star Miroslav Ilić and recorded a collaborative extended play Jedan dan života, which featured four songs, including a romantic duet called " Jedan dan života ", and the song " Živela Jugoslavija ", which was received with a mixed response.
In specific response, Ermita said, " Our national sovereignty and territorial integrity are intact ", going on to point out that the African Lion exercises had bolstered national and regional security, and to say that terrorists and communist rebels were " common enemies of democracy, therefore there is nothing wrong with cooperation " between the armed forces of the US and the Philippines.
As the dispute escalated, colonists started to view the British rule as oppressive and hostile, and sought cooperation with other colonies in response.
The appointment of a new commissioner with portfolio for International cooperation, humanitarian aid and crisis response corresponds to the Articles of the Treaty of Lisbon where Humanitarian aid and Civil Protection play a sustainable role.
IMO was created in response to an ever-growing need for international cooperation on amateur meteor work.
Among the report's findings were the revelation that the vast majority of allegations made in the diocese were not reported to the Garda, as required by the Church's 1996 guidelines ; that the Bishop of the Diocese, John Magee, and others had withheld full cooperation with the Government's investigation and had deliberately misrepresented his own response to the allegations ; and that the Vatican itself had both refused to cooperate in the investigation and counseled the Diocese that the 1996 guidelines were not binding.
When determining the appropriate response, the officer may take many factors into consideration, such as the severity of the noise, the time of day, whether the residents have been warned before, the cooperation of the residents to address the problem.
In response to Wright's assumption that cooperation and communication will continue to increase, Pinker writes:
The latter has been an ongoing dispute on a number of issues, in April 2007 Microsoft became the first company to refuse to comply with the Commissions rulings, in response Commissioner Kroes is looking at more harsher methods to gain the cooperation of companies ; " We have never, ever before encountered a company that has refused to comply with commission decisions ... We learned we may have to look for a more effective remedy.
The Department of International Cooperation, to present an example of the activities of one of these departments and commissions, has already signed agreements on cooperation during disaster response and prevention with Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, Poland, Belarus, Georgia, and Kazakhstan.
" In response, the Iranian government threatened to end cooperation with the British Museum if the Cylinder was not loaned within the following two months.

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