Such levies were first introduced in the USA in response to lobbying from the recording industry with the advent of the Audio cassette.

Timbro has been accused of lobbying to restrict the freedom of the press in Sweden in response to Wikileaks.

General Gates was used as a stalking horse to replace Washington, and had himself also engaged in some lobbying for the command, but he was not responsible for the strong response within the Congress.

In response, social movements, trade union groups, and political organizations have emerged to challenge state policies through lobbying and pressure politics.

Located in Washington, D. C., People For the American Way monitors what it characterizes as " right-wing " activities, conducting rapid response, political lobbying, and volunteer mobilization.

Moran has represented the $ 200 million salmon farming industry in Atlantic Canada ; was a strategist behind a lobbying campaign in response to the closure of a Canadian Forces Base that enabled the community obtain operating control of a valuable economic asset ; led a Federal / Provincial Government Industrial Adjustment Committee to deal with the closure of the Campbell Soup plant ; managed a hospital restructuring study for the Ontario Ministry of Health ; developed a strategic plan to position the telecommunications industry as an important voice in the lobby for competition in long distance telephone services ; managed a Feasibility Study – Business Plan Report prepared to preserve a historic Canadian Pacific Railway Station ; and developed a strategic plan to position a not-for-profit recycling business as a leading edge environmental and sustainable development company.

PFAW is prominent within the progressive political movement for monitoring right-wing activities, conducting rapid response, political lobbying, and volunteer mobilization.

The idea of a greenway on the route was suggested by Minister Eamon O ' Cuiv at a West on Track conference in May 2009 in response to lobbying for this idea from www. sligomayogreenway. com

A second response to the " rediscovery " of hunger in the mid sixties had been extensive lobbying of politicians to improve welfare.

As part of the retender of Southern's franchise in 2009, the Department for Transport requested that in response to lobbying by Croydon Council the new company look into a better name for the station, as " Smitham " is no longer used as the name of the local area.

Many workers believe that the response is proportional to the incident momentum of the particles, a relation deduced from laboratory results linearly extrapolated to meteoritic velocities.

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.

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.

Soon after 10 A.M., when police reached the 1-1/2-story brick home in the Franklin Manor section, 15 miles south of here on the bay, in response to a call from the Dresbach's other son, Lee, 14, they found Mrs. Dresbach's body on the first-floor bedroom floor.

Santa's lieutenants in charge of the Journal-Bulletin Santa Claus Fund are looking for the usual generous response this year from Cranston residents.

The response from London, Paris and Bonn was favorable.

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.

The analysis of variance has been studied from several approaches, the most common of which uses a linear model that relates the response to the treatments and blocks.

In its simplest form, the assumption of unit-treatment additivity states that the observed response from experimental unit when receiving treatment can be written as the sum of the unit's response and the treatment-effect, that is

The Church of England ( which until the 20th century included the Church in Wales ) initially separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1538 in the reign of King Henry VIII, reunited in 1555 under Queen Mary I and then separated again in 1570 under Queen Elizabeth I ( the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Elizabeth I in 1570 in response to the Act of Supremacy 1559 ).

As such, it is distinguished from fear, which is an appropriate cognitive and emotional response to a perceived threat.

Reverend James Freeman Clarke was one of Alcott's few supporters and defended him against the harsh response from Boston periodicals.

They launched a major invasion of Gaul and northern Italy in 268, when the Romans were forced to denude much of their German frontier of troops in response to a massive invasion of the Goths from the east.

In response to the Black Codes and Southern recalcitrance, the Republicans prevented the secessionist states ' representatives from taking their seats in Congress in the fall 1865.

According to Diogenes Laertius, in response to Alexander's claim to have been the son of Zeus-Ammon, Anaxarchus pointed to his bleeding wound and remarked, " See the blood of a mortal, not ichor, such as flows from the veins of the immortal gods.

In response Dirgham sought help from Amalric, but Shirkuh and Shawar arrived before Amalric could intervene and Dirgham was killed.

What expands the qualities of further bodily response is a very subtle nod forward to counteract a common backward startle pattern, coupled with an upward movement of the head away from the body that lengthens the spine.

Exactly-once mode was essential for operations which were not idempotent ; in this mode, the responder kept a copy of the response buffers in memory until successful receipt of a release packet from the requestor, or until a timeout elapsed.

They were from hundreds of tribes across West Africa, and brought with them certain traits of West African music including call and response vocals and complex rhythmic music, as well as syncopated beats and shifting accents.

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 zona fasciculata secretes a basal level of cortisol but can also produce bursts of the hormone in response to adrenocorticotropic hormone ( ACTH ) from the anterior pituitary.

Catecholamines are derived from the amino acid tyrosine and these water-soluble hormones are the major hormones underlying the fight-or-flight response.

To carry out its part of this response, the adrenal medulla receives input from the sympathetic nervous system through preganglionic fibers originating in the thoracic spinal cord from T5 – T11.

The phrase began to be used in response to the blending of sounds between these international genres and frequent misrepresentations of genre by casual fans.

" 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 Twins players embraced the label, and in response, the Twins Front office started a " Piranha Night ", with piranha finger puppets given out to the first 10, 000 fans.

The collaboration garnered a positive response from both fans and critics, resulting in speculation about future projects together.

In the August 1988 issue of Dragon, he outlined the ideas from readers that been included, and Greyhawk Adventures appeared shortly afterward as a response to requests from Greyhawk fans.

Comic Book Guy's oft-repeated catchphrase, " Worst episode ever ," first appeared on alt. tv. simpsons in an episode review and David X. Cohen decided to use this fan response to lampoon the passion and the fickleness of the fans.

The eighth season episode " The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show " is largely seen as a satire of the " hardcore fans " that make up the newsgroup, as well as a response to the viewer backlash and obsession with internal consistency those fans commonly express.

In response, many Devils fans wore Mickey Mouse apparel when the Oilers returned to New Jersey.

Press response to The Killing Kind was very positive, but the album remains a hotly contested topic among the band's audience, with some longtime fans resistant to the new modern elements, and others hailing The Killing Kind as one of the band's finest moments.

Some fans have had a rather negative response to Betancourt's writing style and lack of characterization, and consider his work to be more of fan fiction, but Betancourt states that one of his primary motivations for writing the new books was to keep Roger Zelazny's books and stories alive and in print and to prevent them from fading into obscurity, much like how other authors have extended the stories and ongoing popularity of Robert E. Howard's Conan, Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series.

One night in late 1980, there was a delayed response from one section of fans, leading to them jumping to their feet a few seconds later than the section beside them.

Evisceration Plague, Cannibal Corpse's eleventh studio album was released February 3, 2009, to a highly positive response from fans.

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:

The center-field entertainment area at the Phillies current stadium, Citizens Bank Park, is named Ashburn Alley in his honor in response to the demand of numerous fans requesting that the Phillies name the stadium in Ashburn's honor ( due to Ashburn's 47 seasons of service to the Phillies organization, which was second in length in Philadelphia baseball history only to Connie Mack, who was so honored with the renaming of Shibe Park in 1953 ).

During the song " The Juggla ", Violent J addressed the audience as Juggalos, and the positive response resulted in Bruce and Shaggy 2 Dope using the word thereafter to refer to themselves and their friends, family, and fans, including other Psychopathic Records artists.

In response, the more devoted of the station's listeners and fans began signing petitions, even going so far as to file an intervention with the CRTC to oppose the station's 1989 licence renewal.

In response to Goodman's nickname, the " King of Swing ", Shaw's fans dubbed him the " King of the Clarinet.

* " Snowball Effect ", a 90-minute retrospective documentary for Clerks that focuses on Smith's early inception of the film, the process of making and distributing and finally, the reaction and response to the film from critics and fans.

Tara had become popular among fans, and Whedon and series writer David Fury decided that her death would elicit a strong response, something that Whedon felt sure was the correct course to take.

In response to fans and critics who accused the writers of being motivated by homophobia, Stafford comments, " they seem to forget that it was those same writers who created such an amazing, gentle, and realistic portrait in the first place ; that Tara is certainly not the first character to be killed off on the show ; and Tara was a lot more than just ' the lesbian ', and her character deserves better than that.

It was created as a response to the " C of Red " created by fans of the Calgary Flames, who the home town Jets were facing in the first round of the 1987 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

This means of advertisement triggered an unusual viewer response in April 2009, when fans of the television series Chuck took advantage of product placement in the series by the restaurant chain Subway as part of a grassroots effort to save the show from cancellation.

One episode in the second season finds Seth commenting that " we tried some new things ", but that " last year was just better ", echoing response from fans that the second season was inferior to the first.

In response, Frick overruled the fan vote, removed two Reds from the starting lineup and appointed two replacements from other teams, and then took the vote away from the fans and kept it that way for the remainder of his tenure.