In response to growing criticism of its monopolistic power, New York state passed the Educational Testing Act, a disclosure law which required ETS to make available certain test questions and graded answer sheets to students.

Because of the increase in oligopoly this took the form of stagnation as monopolistic firms reduced output rather than prices in response to overcapacity.

Congregational discipline and conflict resolution are applied using various forms of consultation, mediation, and discussion, with disfellowship ( similar to excommunication ) being the final response to those with unorthodox practices or beliefs.

n3td3v was banned from the Full disclosure mailing list on January 21 2009. n3td3v is thought to be banned in response to his widespread criticism of what he saw as irresponsible disclosure practices carried out by some security researchers, such as HD Moore.

In response to Yarhouse's paper, Jack Drescher argued that " any putative ethical obligation to refer a patient for reparative therapy is outweighed by a stronger ethical obligation to keep patients away from mental health practitioners who engage in questionable clinical practices.

These certification systems were developed as a response to criticism of some forestry practices, particularly deforestation in less developed regions along with concerns over resource management in the developed world.

Mark S. Smith argues that the mention of " Topeth " in Isaiah 30: 27 – 33 indicates an acceptance of child sacrifice in the early Jerusalem practices, to which the law in Leviticus 20: 2 – 5 forbidding child sacrifice is a response.

Laws, regulations, or practices that do not take into account these new global realities-and that do not have sufficient flexibility to allow for adaptation in response to future changes-ultimately harm national security by imposing costs and burdens on U. S. industry without any corresponding benefit to U. S. security.

In response to widespread international condemnation of alleged children recruitment practices, the LTTE informed that they have made ( taking effect in Oct. 2006 ) child recruitment illegal for its groups.

In 1520, the Revolt of the Comuneros broke out in response to the perceived foreign Habsburg influence over Castile through Charles V. The rebel leaders demanded that Castile be governed in accordance with the supposed practices of the Catholic Monarchs.

Emerging in the late 1970s at the direction of kaumātua, kōhanga reo was an immediate and urgent response to the decline of te reo Māori ( Māori language ) and tikanga Māori ( Māori culture, cultural habits and practices ).

According to the PHSCC, this mission is achieved through rapid and effective response to public health needs, leadership and excellence in public health practices, and advancement of public health science.

The response from McDonald's, expressed by its representatives in the United Kingdom, is that Ritzer, like other commentators, uses the company's size and brand recognition to promote ideas that do not necessarily relate to the company's business practices.

In response to a request from the emperor, Kūkai, along with other Japanese Buddhist leaders, submitted a document which set out the beliefs, practices and important texts of his form of Buddhism.

The organisation was set up in 1957 as a response to the changing values and concerns of the post-war era, at a time of rapid changes in product markets and consumer behaviour-and a corresponding growth in sharp trading practices.

In response to that reality, crisis management policies, strategies and practices have been developed and adapted across multiple disciplines.

In the late 1970s, in response to the number of foreign poets being featured in Poetry Review, Mottram was removed as editor of the magazine ; his editorial practices being described as " a treacherous assault on British poetry ".

The heavily advertised " See Clearly Method " ( of which sales were halted by a court order in November 2006, in response to what were found to be dishonest marketing practices ) included " palming " and " light therapy ", both adapted from Bates.

Taking part in such practices is seen mostly as informal activity, but in many cities where inadequate, unreliable, and irregular access to food is a recurring problem, urban agriculture has been a positive response to tackling food concerns.

There has also been an emerging trend of going green and organic as a response to pollution and pesticides used in farming practices.

In response to these environmental problems, Congress passed in 1992 the Central Valley Project Improvement Act ( CVPIA ), Title 34 of Public Law 102-575, to change water management practices in the CVP in order to lessen the ecological impact on the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers.

A call that originates as a " pan-pan " signal might be followed by a Mayday distress call if the situation deteriorates to the point of " grave and imminent danger ", thus warranting immediate action ( intervention, assistance, response ) on the part of listeners in accordance with standard operating practices for distress signaling.

In response to past planning practices, much of the suburb is now a historic preservation precinct, with many individual buildings and streetscapes covered by Heritage Overlays.

In response, the team at Hovsgol created and distributed a Herder Handbook and continues to conduct research and work with nomadic herders to develop sustainable practices.

In response English courts developed case law on restrictive business practices.

Egale intervened to support efforts to have LGBT pride officially proclaimed in many cities ; supported community initiatives in response to the Calgary bathhouse raids ; decried the heavy-handed censorship practices of Canada Customs and helped Little Sisters Bookstore win their court case.

Only one other contemporary of More's evokes so immediate and direct a response, and only one other contemporary work -- Niccolo Machiavelli and The Prince.

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.

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.

Lincoln commented, in response to Hugh McCullough's criticism of Johnson's behavior, that " I have known Andy Johnson for many years ; he made a bad slip the other day, but you need not be scared ; Andy ain't a drunkard.

In choosing analgesics, the severity and response to other medication determines the choice of agent ; the WHO pain ladder, originally developed in cancer-related pain, is widely applied to find suitable drugs in a stepwise manner.

Bandwidths ( otherwise called " frequency responses ") for other response tolerances are sometimes quoted (, etc.

Examination of Beowulf and other Anglo-Saxon poetry for evidence of oral-formulaic composition has met with mixed response.

According to Kirsten Abbott, feminist interpretation regards the story of Hosea and his relations with his wife Gomer as a metaphor for the conflict between a Covenant Theology ( Israel violating the covenant relationship with YHWH ) and a Creation Theology ( YHWH will undo the fertility of the earth in response to Israel following other fertility gods ).

Santer and 40 other scientists responded to the Wall Street Journal that all IPCC procedural rules were followed, and that IPCC procedures required changes to the draft in response to comments from governments, individual scientists, and non-governmental organizations.

At other frequencies, more radiant intensity is required to achieve the same luminous intensity, according to the frequency response of the human eye.

In response, he, John Herschel, George Peacock, and several other friends formed the Analytical Society in 1812.

The solo is followed by a louvação, a call and response pattern that usually thanks God and one's master, among other things.

: Plotted on the x-axis is the retention time and plotted on the y-axis a signal ( for example obtained by a spectrophotometer, mass spectrometer or a variety of other detectors ) corresponding to the response created by the analytes exiting the system.

Chiang Kai-shek threatened the French with war in response to maneuvering by the French and Ho Chi Minh's forces against each other, forcing them to come to a peace agreement.

On the other hand, CRT monitors have superior contrast, have superior response time, are able to use multiple screen resolutions natively, and there is no discernible flicker if the refresh rate is set to a sufficiently high value.

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.

Loosely speaking, a derivative can be thought of as how much one quantity is changing in response to changes in some other quantity ; for example, the derivative of the position of a moving object with respect to time is the object's instantaneous velocity.

* The Bertrand model, in which, in a game of two firms, each one of them will assume that the other will not change prices in response to its price cuts.

DPNSS is a compelled protocol in that each instruction issued must be met with an appropriate response from the other PBX otherwise the message is re-transmitted ( until timer expiry ).

In the gospel of John, the account of the Last Supper has no mention of Jesus taking bread and wine and speaking of them as his body and blood ; instead it recounts his humble act of washing the disciples ' feet, the prophecy of the betrayal, which set in motion the events that would lead to the cross, and his long discourse in response to some questions posed by his followers, in which he went on to speak of the importance of the unity of the disciples with him and each other.

# the measures taken in response to it, must be in compliance with a state's other obligations under international law

S: Substance or article so packed or designed that any hazardous effects arising from accidental functioning are limited to the extent that they do not significantly hinder or prohibit fire fighting or other emergency response efforts in the immediate vicinity of the package ( 1. 4S ).

Tremor intensity can worsen in response to fatigue, strong emotions, low blood sugar, cold, caffeine, lithium salts, some antidepressants or other factors.

Laura Mulvey, in response to these and other criticisms, revisited the topic in “ Afterthoughts on ‘ Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema ’ inspired by Duel in the Sun ” ( 1981 ).