It may be an exaggerated form of an instinctive response that helped early humans to survive, or a cultural phenomenon that is most common in predominantly European societies.

In response to criticism over ergonomic issues in the 7800 ’ s Pro-Line controllers, Atari later released joypad controllers with European 7800s, which were similar in style to controllers found on Nintendo and Sega Systems.

Evolving further partly in response to the European Central Bank, the People's Bank of China has by 2000 become a modern central bank.

However most of the colleges began in the mid-1960s as a response education and training for the then emerging baby boom generation, and to provide training to the post second World War II European immigrants and newer immigrants from around the world, that were starting to enter the country.

" At that time, and in response to a European Council report highlighting Ireland as the most centralised country in the European Union, it was decided that a single County Dublin was unmanageable and undemocratic from a local government perspective.

In response to Lord Chalfont's claim in that the Soviet Union was giving the European peace movement £ 100 million a year, Bruce Kent said, " If they were, it was certainly not getting to our grotty little office in Finsbury Park.

GPRS was originally standardized by European Telecommunications Standards Institute ( ETSI ) in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode packet-switched cellular technologies.

In response, the European Commission criticised the actions, describing them as " unilateral and disproportionate ", although no immediate ' tit-for-tat ' response was announced.

Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, the institute adopted the European polytechnic university model and emphasized laboratory instruction from an early date.

British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin heard Marshall's radio broadcast speech and immediately contacted French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault to begin preparing a quick European response to ( and acceptance of ) the offer.

European countries with a weak system of government would be unable to organize a suitable response would naturally suffer the most to Viking raiders.

Meanwhile the eastern European communist states politically deteriorated in response to the success of the Polish Solidarity movement and the possibility of Gorbachev-style political liberalization.

The European Union also banned importation of prairie dogs in response.

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.

He received little response from other European powers.

In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria, again provoking little response from other European powers.

** The European Economic Community lifts economic sanctions on South Africa in response to moves to end the apartheid system.

NATO's deployment of these missiles was a response to the Soviet deployment of the SS-20 Pioneer, which could hit most European NATO bases within minutes of launch.

In contrast, DASA's response to the breakdown of the merger discussion was to merge with Aérospatiale to create the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company ( EADS ), a horizontal integration.

It was partly in response to a new wave of European imperialism in sub-Saharan Africa and the massive immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans to the United States and Latin America.

It became autonomous in 1990 ; this was in response to a European directive which aimed at making competition mandatory in public services from the 1 January 1998.

The embargo was imposed in response to violations of U. S. neutrality, in which American merchantmen and their cargo were seized as contraband of war by the belligerent European navies.

No response has been issued by the British Government or by Northern Ireland paramilitaries, despite requests from various European bodies and human rights organisations.

In particular, the agency had not set up a truly independent office for safety oversight ; the CAIB felt that in this area, " NASA's response to the Rogers Commission did not meet the Commission's intent ".

: Furthermore, in the fifth recital the Parliament and the Council stated that the action taken by the Member States in response to the Commission's Recommendation has not fully achieved the desired result.

He then promoted the idea of an independent " Czar of Intelligence " outside of the White House in response to the 9 / 11 Commission's findings.

Critics of Reagan's response to the Commission's findings state that the recommendations of the Commission went largely ignored by both the Reagan administration and its successor, the George H. W. Bush administration.

" The Commission's final report was published in January 2001, leaving Green to begin the work of co-ordinating the Union's response.

Lane later wrote A Citizen's Dissent, documenting his response to the Warren Commission's governmental findings on the Kennedy assassination.

On August 12, 2005, Hamilton and former 9 / 11 Commission chairman Thomas Kean issued a statement in response to media inquiries about the Commission's investigation of the Able Danger program.

Flexicurity featured prominently in the Commission's response to the crisis, in the European Economic Recovery Plan of November 2008 and its follow up Communication “ Driving economic recovery " of March 2009.

On 6 July 2003, in response to a proposal to send 300 police and 2, 000 troops from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea to Guadalcanal, warlord Harold Keke announced a ceasefire by faxing a signed copy of the announcement to the Solomons Prime Minister, Allan Kemakeza.

Rider is described in the book as having buttocks like a boy, which brought a response from Fleming's friend Noël Coward that " I was also slightly shocked by the lascivious announcement that Honeychile's bottom was like a boy's.

According to a SourceForge. net announcement on their blog as a short term response, they have taken down services such as CVS Hosting, ViewVC ( web-based code browsing ), New Release upload capability, and Interactive Shell services.

A study on stocks ' response to dividend cuts or increases over three years found that after an announcement of a dividend cut, stocks underperformed the market by 15. 3 % for the three-year period, while stocks outperformed the market by 24. 8 % for the three years following the announcement of a dividend increase.

Prior to the start of the festival, Lee wrote an e-mail to the publicist of the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards, copying in other comedians, in response to the announcement of a poll to find the public's favourite act from 30 years of the award, which was previously known as the Perrier Award.

To emphasise the point, people often quote two or more lines from " Dane Geld " by Rudyard Kipling as did Tony Parsons in The Daily Mirror, when criticising the Rome daily La Repubblica for writing " Ransom was paid and that is nothing to be ashamed of ," in response to the announcement that the Italian government paid $ 1 million for the release of two hostages in Iraq in October 2004.

An immediate response was a fall in attendance ; by April, ticket booking was so slow that national advertisements were taken out to encourage people to come to Chelsea, and the original announcement that tickets would not be available at the gates was rescinded.

In response to Campbell's announcement, a partnership of nine men, led by Walter Bush, Jr. and John Driscoll, was formed to seek a franchise for the Twin Cities area of Minnesota.

In response to the government's announcement, Greenpeace activists occupied Energy Minister Dwight Duncan's offices.

In the announcement, McHugh denied that the move was made in response to several high-profile misconduct allegations leveled against soldiers from the base in the Afghanistan War such as the Maywand District murders and the Kandahar massacre.

" In response to the announcement the franc fell against the euro, to 1. 22 francs from 1. 12 francs and lost 9 % against the U. S. dollar within fifteen minutes.

These talks were agreed to after Joseph Kony released a video in May in which he denied committing atrocities and seemed to call for an end to hostilities, in response to an announcement by Museveni that he would guarantee the safety of Kony if peace was agreed to by July.

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The < tt > coop </ tt > TLD was proposed by the National Cooperative Business Association ( NCBA ) as a response to the announcement by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) in late 2000 of a phased release of seven new generic top-level domains in an expansion of the Internet domain name space.

In 1998, In response to developer comments about the new operating system, the " big announcement " at WWDC ' 98 was the introduction of Carbon.

In 2011, Cunningham arranged a meeting with the Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology Peter Luff, as a response to the Rolls-Royce announcement that it would lay off one quarter of its staff at its Ansty plant by 2012 due to the UK defence cuts and the plant's reliance upon repairing and servicing RAF jet engines.

This contrasts starkly with Macbeth ’ s famous response to the announcement of his wife ’ s death: “ She should have died hereafter / There would have been a time for such a word / Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow ” ( 5. 5. 17-19 ).

Critics had speculated that the latter change was likely as a response to the announcement of the CRTC granting approval to an application by Rogers Media for its own regional news channel focusing on the Greater Toronto Area, CityNews Channel.

However, the protest movement which had gathered to fight the construction of the Lake Pedder Dam earlier in the 1970s began to reassemble in response to the announcement.

In response to the announcement of the MOL, the USSR commissioned the development of its own military space station, Almaz.

The first action taken in response to this announcement was for No 1 ACC to move to RAF Kirton in Lindsey, a former RAF Fighter Command airfield in Lincolnshire.

Despite increased audience size, critical response, and award nominations, the ABC made no official announcement of the show's renewal.

Shortly after the announcement of The CW network's pending launch, Fox Television Stations immediately dropped all network branding from its UPN affiliates ( all of whom also stopped promoting the network's programming ), in response to being left off the initial list of The CW's charter affiliates in favor of Tribune Broadcasting and CBS Television Stations.

Following this announcement, Mr. Ruiz-Gallardón indicated his intention to retire from politics, although the next day he softened his response, and said he will " reflect " about his political future after the March 2008 General Elections.