In response to the bankruptcy President Richard Nixon signed into law the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970 which formed the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, better known as Amtrak, a nationalized government owned and subsidized railroad.

The critical response to his article was enhanced as he had previously written two poems celebrating the strength and certain immortality of the Tay Rail Bridge.

The Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Commuter Railroad placed more officers on trains and increased the visibility of police in response to the shootings.

In response, Bolger acknowledged his involvement in privatising New Zealand Rail, remarking that " my life is full of ironies.

In a 2008 interview with Phong Bui in The Brooklyn Rail, Meiselas says: " I don ’ t want to relinquish the role and the necessity of witnessing and the photographic act as a response, a responsible response.

In response to the confirmed alarm, the Rail Control Centre began to prepare for a fire in the tunnel, in case train 7539 did not make it to the other end.

A typical response could be, " Standing by ", " Thank you, Sound ", " Standby Rail ," or simply " Lights.

An active local campaign group Bexhill Rail Action Group ( BRAG )* was formed in 2005 in response to proposals to end through services to London Victoria.

On 10 August 1987, the British Rail Board issued a competitive tender for response by 7 November, for a fleet of 100 locomotives.

Investment can change rapidly in response to changes in interest rates and the total output.

The Kenmore Village Improvement Society led the resistance to this, citing the village's police and fire response times and its fiscal responsibility as reasons to keep it a separate entity.

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.

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 ).

The Parliament of Scotland was not happy with the Act of Settlement and, in response, passed the Act of Security in 1704, through which Scotland reserved the right to choose its own successor to Queen Anne.

In response to the rapid creation of new independent agencies in the early twentieth century ( see discussion below ), Congress enacted the Administrative Procedure Act ( APA ) in 1946.

The management of a number of societies still felt that they were unable to compete with the banks, and a new Building Societies Act was passed in 1986 in response to their concerns.

Some sponsoring agencies use Citizen Corps grant funds to purchase response tools and equipment for their members and team ( s ) ( subject to Stafford Act limitations ).

Ten years later, limited liability, the key provision of modern corporate law, passed into English law: in response to increasing pressure from newly emerging capital interests, Parliament passed the Limited Liability Act 1855, which established the principle that any corporation could enjoy limited legal liability on both contract and tort claims simply by registering as a " limited " company with the appropriate government agency.

EVM also received greater attention by publicly traded companies in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907.

In response, Congress passed the False Claims Act on March 2, 1863,.

In response to this, the Clean Air Act 1956 was passed, mandating the creating of " smokeless zones " where the use of " smokeless " fuels was required ( this was at a time when most households still used open fires ); the Act was effective.

* 1983 – The U. S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee ( ultimately found to be 4. 2 million pounds ), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.

They commenced proceedings in the High Court in 1982, in response to the Queensland Amendment Act 1982 establishing a system of making land grants on trust for Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, which the Murray Islanders refused to accept.

In response to the judgment, the Parliament of Australia, controlled by the Labor Party led by Prime Minister Paul Keating, enacted the Native Title Act 1993 ( NTA ).

In response to the trials of the conspirators being moved out-of-state, the Victim Allocution Clarification Act of 1997 was signed on March 20, 1997 by President Clinton to allow the victims of the bombing ( and the victims of any other future acts of violence ) the right to observe trials and to offer impact testimony in sentencing hearings.

* 1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.

In 1765 Randolph found himself at odds with a freshman burgess, Patrick Henry, over the matter of a response to the Stamp Act.

In response, a second committee was appointed-this one to produce a report indicating why the Commons disagreed with the inclusion of the Licensing Act, and chaired by Edward Clarke.

* War on Terrorism ( also Global War on Terror ) refers to the political response from the U. S. Government to the attacks of 9 / 11 and includes the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the color-coded national threat condition reporting system, the Patriot Act, and the prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

In response, the American Civil Liberties Union financed a test case in which John Scopes, a Tennessee high school science teacher, agreed to be tried for violating the Act.

In response to the renewed violent outbreaks against African Americans, Grant was the first President to sign a congressional civil rights act: the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

** In response to the events of March 7 and 9 in Selma, Alabama, President Lyndon B. Johnson sends a bill to Congress that forms the basis for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The relevant sections of the Act were introduced in response to fears that Internet pornography was on the rise.

In response, the English Parliament passed the Anatomy Act 1832, which finally provided for an adequate and legitimate supply of corpses by allowing dissection of destitutes.

In response to this, the remaining churches in CUIC decided in 2008 to suspend their work while they seek reconciliation with these churches.

The trend is similarly evident in industries such as soft drink and bottled water manufacturing, as well as global cocoa, chocolate, and sugar confectionery manufacturing, forecast to grow by 5. 7 % and 10. 0 % respectively during 2008 in response to soaring demand in Chinese and Southeast Asian markets.

* 2008 – Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.

After Hamas assaulted a neighborhood in Gaza mostly populated by the Fatah-aligned Hilles clan in response to their attack on Hamas which killed six of its members, the Hilles clan was relocated to Jericho on 4 August 2008.

Nicaragua relies on international economic assistance to meet internal-and external-debt financing obligations, although foreign donors curtailed this funding in response to widespread allegations of electoral fraud in Nicaragua's November 2008 elections.

The investigation portion of the response plan was completed with the release of the final report on 7 World Trade Center on November 20, 2008.

* Indian Premier League-The BCCI's response to the Indian Cricket League, this Twenty20 league launched in 2008 with teams in Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mohali and Mumbai, Kochi.

After the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the Mumbai Police created specialized, quick response teams to deal with terror threats.

In an article published in October 2008, Lipponen discussed the Russian response in Georgia and warned Europe of its dependence on Russian gas.

LPRadicals emerged in response and was active at the 2008 and 2010 Libertarian National Conventions.

* 2008 South Ossetia war – Russia invaded Georgia in response to Georgian aggression towards civilians and attack on South Ossetia.

In response to the 2007 – 2008 world food price crisis, the IBRD initiated a Global Food Crisis Response Program which provided food assistance to 40 million people across 44 countries.

The IBRD's lending accelerated and expanded in 2009 in response to the global financial crisis, committing approximately $ 60 billion USD to support developing countries, which was 54 % more than it had committed in 2008.

In 2008, Democrats tapped Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to give a response in English ; Texas state Senator Leticia Van de Putte did the same in Spanish.

In response to very high motor fuel prices in Spring 2008, Dodge initiated a purchase incentive guaranteeing the buyer of a new Dodge would have to pay no more than $ 2. 99 per gallon of gasoline for three years.

In response to the growing use of the term, on 23 December 2008 Psion Teklogix sent cease and desist letters to various parties including enthusiast website ( s ) demanding they no longer use the term " netbook ".

In response, the Federal Reserve decided to continue cutting interest rates, down to a near-zero range as of December 16, 2008.

In 2008, the philosopher Maxine Sheets-Johnstone published The Roots of Morality ( Pennsylvania State University Press ), which contains an analysis of Rank's argument that " immortality ideologies " are an abiding human response to the painful riddle of death.

* At the 2008 San Diego Comic Con, Zack Snyder, director of the screen adaptations of Watchmen by Alan Moore, and Miller's 300, expressed his love for The Dark Knight Returns, in response to a question about the more mature direction of comic book adaptations.

* Separately from any authorization, FEMA may also mission assign USACE for flood emergency response under the National Response Framework, which replaced the National Response Plan in 2008.

( 2008 ) tested a DNA vaccine on mice which " induced a muscle larvae burden reduction in BALB / c mice by 29 % in response to T. spiralis infection ".

The City Council passed the measure in response to an economic grassroots movement initiated in October 2008 by two Wilmington High School graduates aided by Pure Blue Energy, LLC a consulting firm out of North Carolina.

In response to the late 2000s recession, the company announced in November 2008 that it was reducing its work-week to save money while avoiding lay-offs.

The second usage described an incident which occurred in December 2008, wherein Hebron settlers lashed out at Palestinians in that city in response to the eviction of a settler group from a disputed building by Israeli security.