The act, as a response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, significantly reduced restrictions in law enforcement agencies ' gathering of intelligence within the United States ; expanded the Secretary of the Treasury ’ s authority to regulate financial transactions, particularly those involving foreign individuals and entities ; and broadened the discretion of law enforcement and immigration authorities in detaining and deporting immigrants suspected of terrorism-related acts.

* August 19 – 21 – In response to the murder of a judge, a provincial police chief, and presidential candidate Galán, the authorities of Colombia arrest 11, 000 suspected Colombian drug traffickers.

Antibiotics are absolutely necessary whenever pneumonia is suspected or there has been a noticeable decline in lung function, and are usually chosen based on the results of a sputum analysis and the patient's past response.

; Cut it out, Ron: A standard response to a posting that is suspected to be a troll.

The Japanese suspected that they might meet resistance when they attempted to occupy Taiwan, and their invasion of Taiwan, hastily launched in late May 1895 in response to the proclamation of the Republic of Formosa, was preceded by an attack on Qing forces on Penghu in March 1895, in which the Japanese defeated the Chinese garrison of the islands and occupied Makung.

In response to criticism, she later said, " Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it's been across the Canadian border.

The Jewish community organized self-defense forces in response to the Jerusalem pogrom of April 1920 and later disturbances ; while other Jewish groups carried out bombings and attacks against the British, especially in response to suspected complicity with the Arabs and restrictions on immigration during World War II imposed by the White Paper of 1939.

The response was a new wave of terror, with many what are suspected to have been extrajudicial killings but have never been proved.

While recovering from his wounds, Lenin instructed: " It is necessary-secretly and urgently to prepare the terror " Even before the assassinations, Lenin was sending telegrams " to introduce mass terror " in Nizhny Novgorod in response to a suspected civilian uprising there, and " crush " landowners in Penza who protested, sometimes violently, to requisition of their grain by military detachments: Conditions in these camps led to high mortality rates, and there were " repeated massacres.

In response, on February 11, 2002, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei became one of 17 suspected terrorists added by the FBI to the " Seeking Information " list.

Patients suspected of having a rotator cuff tear are divided into two treatment groups initially: Each patient is initially a candidate for either operative or non-operative treatment, however patients are re-evaluated throughout the course of treatment and may move from one group to the other based on their clinical response and findings on repeated examination.

The exact mechanism for tumorigenesis is not determined, but it is suspected that malfunction of the SDH complex can cause a hypoxic response in the cell that leads to tumor formation.

Veterinarians often treat horses with suspected heavy worm burdens with corticosteroids to reduce the inflammatory response to the dead worms.

* 29 March-The Irish Crimes Act of 1887 is introduced by Arthur Balfour in response to the boycott of certain landlords by their tenants ( led by the National Land League ), suspending the right to trial of people suspected of involvement in the boycott.

This is suspected of being a response to Lite FM switching earlier in the week.

Despite having passed permanent counter-terrorism legislation only a year earlier, in the shape of the Terrorism Act 2000, the British government's response to the September 11, 2001 attacks was to rush through emergency legislation to increase powers to deal with individuals suspected of planning or assisting terrorist attacks within the UK.

On the second anniversary of the October Revolution, a friend of Trotsky, Adolf Ioffe, wrote an article on the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet for the Communist International titled “ The First Proletarian Government .” The MRC was created approximately two weeks before the Bolsheviks seized power in response to the decision of the Provisional Government under Kerensky to transfer military units that were suspected of being too strongly under the influence of Bolsheviks or other radical parties.

Liston's response is documented in a letter from himAccording to Liston, he saw Mary Paterson's body in Knox's rooms and immediately suspected foul play.

It is involved with allergenic response and is suspected to act as a mitogen for fibroblast lines.

By that time it was already suspected that TTP occurred in the autoimmune form as well, owing to its response to plasmapheresis and characterisation of IgG inhibitors.

During the first Gulf War the United Nations activated a biological and chemical response team, Task Force Scorpio, to respond to any potential use of weapons of mass destruction on civilians.

Research by Leslie Margolin indicates that mother-son incest does not trigger some innate biological response, but that the effects are more directly related to the symbolic meanings attributed to this act by the participants.

Although there is no universal agreement on the definition of life, scientists generally accept that the biological manifestation of life is characterized by organization, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli and reproduction.

* Phase response curve showing biological responses to light and to exogenous melatonin in animals

These proteins whose expression increases during the immune response include the 11S regulatory particle, whose main known biological role is regulating the production of MHC ligands, and specialized β subunits called β1i, β2i, and β5i with altered substrate specificity.

Piezoelectricity () is the charge that accumulates in certain solid materials ( notably crystals, certain ceramics, and biological matter such as bone, DNA and various proteins ) in response to applied mechanical stress.

* Task Force Scorpio, a United Nations biological and chemical response team

* July 1 – Iraq disarmament crisis: In response to UNSCOM's evidence, Iraq admits for first time the existence of an offensive biological weapons program, but denies weaponization.

* National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center: NARAC is a national support and resource center for planning, real-time assessment, emergency response, and detailed studies of incidents involving a wide variety of hazards, including nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, and natural atmospheric emissions.

Biodefense refers to short term, local, usually military measures to restore biosecurity to a given group of persons in a given area who are, or may be, subject to biological warfare — in the civilian terminology, it is a very robust biohazard response.

During the first Gulf War the United Nations activated a biological and chemical response team, Task Force Scorpio, to respond to any potential use of weapons of mass destruction on civilians.

For states eligible for this assurance, the United States would not use nuclear weapons in response to a chemical or biological attack, but states that those responsible for such an attack would be held accountable and would face the prospect of a devastating conventional military response.

Quantitative bioassays involve estimation of the concentration or potency of a substance by measurement of the biological response that it produces.

It is an important component of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and is often produced in response to biological stress ( along with its precursor corticotropin-releasing hormone from the hypothalamus ).

Treatment is with anti-inflammatory drugs, immunosuppression, and biological therapy targeting specific components of the immune response.

* Bottom-up saliency filters automatically enhance the response to infrequent stimuli, or stimuli of instinctive or learned biological relevance ( exogenous attention ).

Inflammation ( Latin, īnflammō, " I ignite, set alight ") is part of the complex biological response of vascular tissues to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells, or irritants.

* Yogic meditations reduce stress: practicing a form of chanting yogic meditation from a modern tradition of Kundalini Yoga for just 12 minutes daily for eight weeks led to a reduction in the biological mechanisms responsible for an increase in the immune system ’ s inflammation response.

" Ethnicity theory " in the US refers to a school of thinking on race that arose in response first to biological views of race, which underwrote some of the most extreme forms of racial social stratification, exclusion and subordination.

" First to use the term in a biological context, Selye continued to define stress as " the non-specific response of the body to any demand placed upon it.

This is biologically identified as a normal, healthy stress mechanism in response to a situation or stressor – a biological coping mechanism for a threat to homeostasis.

For most biological organisms, the physiological response is to maintain surface temperature in an acceptable range so as to avoid adverse effects.