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response and claim
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.
Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.
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.
Thus in A v United Kingdom, the Court dismissed a claim that a derogation lodged by the British government in response to the September 11 attacks was invalid, but went on to find that measures taken by the United Kingdom under that derogation were disproportionate .< ref >
Michael Uslan and Bruce Solomon claim that when Sullivan asked the group back for a second appearance, he asked them to wear matching suits " for a cleaner look ," but that the Stones in response " showed up for the show in rental Nazi uniforms.
In response, Luther wrote his De servo arbitrio ( On the Bondage of the Will ) ( 1525 ), which attacks the " Diatribe " and Erasmus himself, going so far as to claim that Erasmus was not a Christian.
In response to Haeckel ’ s evolutionary claim that all vertebrates are essentially identical in the first month of embryonic life as proof of common descent, His responds by insisting that a more skilled observer would recognize even sooner that early embryos can be distinguished.
In 1893, judging that his power over Ethiopia was secure, Menelik repudiated the treaty ; in response the Italians ramped up the pressure on his domain in a variety of ways, including the annexation of small territories bordering their original claim under the Treaty of Wuchale, and finally culminating with a military campaign across the Mareb River into Tigray ( on the border with Eritrea ) in December 1894.
This response to the paradox is, in effect, the rejection of the claim that every statement has to be either true or false, also known as the principle of bivalence, a concept related to the law of the excluded middle.
The skit ends with Ferrigno knocking Anthony unconscious, in response to Ian's claim that Anthony stole Ferrigno's Butterfinger.
A more modern response to this criticism of concepts without sense-perception is the claim that the universality of its qualities is an unavoidable given because one only experiences an object by means of general concepts.
If they cannot, its claim may be dismissed without any need for a response by other parties.
Many people who have been practicing the latihan for some time claim to be able to recognize indications or intuitions ' from their inner feeling ' in response to questions that are put forward.
Faludi has rejected the claim advanced by critics that there is a " rigid, monolithic feminist orthodoxy ", noting in response that she has disagreed with Gloria Steinem about pornography and Naomi Wolf about abortion.
In response, many of Chinatown's residents and landlords stayed behind to stake their neighborhood's claim, sleeping out in the open and makeshift tents.
to the court, the party who has pleaded a claim for relief and received no response may request entry of default.
On film, he was Igor ( pronounced " EYE-gore "-an ironic response to Wilder's claim that " it's pronounced FRONK-EN-STEEN ") in Young Frankenstein where many lines were improvised.
Some scholars go as far as to claim that neither insulin resistance, nor obesity are really metabolic disorders per se, but simply adaptive responses to sustained caloric surplus, intended to protect bodily organs from lipotoxicity ( unsafe levels of lipids in the bloodstream and tissues ): " Obesity should therefore not be regarded as a pathology or disease, but rather as the normal, physiologic response to sustained caloric surplus ... As a consequence of the high level of lipid accumulation in insulin target tissues including skeletal muscle and liver, it has been suggested that exclusion of glucose from lipid-laden cells is a compensatory defense against further accumulation of lipogenic substrate.
Despite stating this was a response to consumer demand to improve taste and texture, there was no " new improved recipe " claim placed on New Zealand labels.
This musical chairs approach to collaboration was a characteristically provocative gesture by Bailey, perhaps in response to John Stevens ' claim that musicians needed to collaborate for months or years in order to improvise well together.
AIDS activists allege redlining of health insurance against the LGBT community in response to the AIDS crisis, though no evidence exists to support this claim.
In response, this claim is rejected by the government of the Republic of China, which views itself as an independent sovereign country and equally refuses to recognize the existence of the mainland People's Republic of China.
In response to the claim that the Church's response to one heresy led to an overcorrection in the opposite direction, it can only be admitted that this is always a real danger, and history provides abundant examples.

response and Whewell's
Whewell's suggestion of the term was partly satirical, a response to changing conceptions of science itself in which natural knowledge was increasingly seen as distinct from other forms of knowledge.

response and treatise
As an apologetic treatise it was intended to point out the futility of pagan beliefs and to establish the reasonableness and truth of Christianity as a response to pagan critics.
In the Autumn of 1968 he returned to France, where he published L ' archéologie du savoir ( The Archaeology of Knowledge ) – a methodological treatise that included a response to his critics – in 1969.
In response to this second triad, Barlaam composed the treatise " Against the Messalians " linking the hesychasts to the Messalians and thereby accusing them of heresy.
Ratramnus wrote another treatise, The Birth of Christ, possibly as a response to Paschasius ’ De Partu Virginis.
Milton's treatise is his response to that licensing order, which clearly came at a time when he and the Parliament were already at odds.
The Enchiridion is a compact treatise on Christian piety, written in response to a request by an otherwise unknown person, named Laurentius, shortly after the death of Saint Jerome in 420.
In response to this second triad, Barlaam composed the treatise " Against the Messalians " linking the hesychasts to the Messalians and thereby accusing them of heresy.
Upshur's view of the Constitution received its fullest expression in his 1840 treatise in response to Judge Joseph Story, A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government: Being a Review of Judge Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.
In 1730 ( in response to his perceived harassment by the officials and out of concern for the deteriorating condition in religious music ), Bach wrote a treatise he entitled “ Kurtzer, iedoch höchstnöthiger Entwurff einer wohlbestallten Kirchen Music ; nebst einigem unvorgreiflichen Bedenkken von dem Verfall derselben.
Michelangelo's treatise on the superiority of sculpture is a famous response to Leonardo's treatise.
His treatise on the sanctification of the Lord's day was in response to the policies of James VI and the Episcopalian clergy.
In his theoretical treatise about psaltic art and in response to the " wrong ideas " that some singers already had some years after the conquest of Constantinople ( 1458 ), the famous Maïstoros Manuel Chrysaphes introduced not only into the two phthorai nenano and nana, but also into four phthorai which bind the melos to the diatonic echoi of protos, devteros, tritos, and tetartos.
Changawi's other books include a treatise about Islam's response to Christian missions ( A ' ina-i ' isai ' yat ) and a book about Islamic teachings regarding matrimonial relations between husband and wife ( Hadayat al-Zaujain ).

response and We
The words were given in response to the Latin maxim: " Ignoramus et ignorabimus " or " We do not know, we cannot know ":
We do not have a record of their activity, but are left to reconstruct it from Paul's response.
An eighteenth-century response to the novel from the Monthly Review reads: “ We must hear no more of enchanted forests and castles, giants, dragons, walls of fire and other ‘ monstrous and prodigious things ;’ – yet still forests and castles remain, and it is still within the province of fiction, without overstepping the limits of nature, to make use of them for the purpose of creating surprise .”
We believe that in obedience to God and in loving response to His grace in Christ, the Sabbath should be faithfully observed as a day of rest, worship, and celebration.
Frank Capra's seven-film series Why We Fight is said to have been directly inspired by and America's response to Triumph of the Will.
In response to Goodall's revolutionary findings, Louis Leakey wrote, " We must now redefine man, redefine tool, or accept chimpanzees as human!
When confronted with such accusations, Laibach are quoted as replying with the ambiguous response " We are fascists as much as Hitler was a painter ".
Additionally, she wrote a poem in response called " We Shall Keep the Faith ".
Israeli defense minister Yitzhak Rabin's response was: " We will teach them there is a price for refusing the laws of Israel.
In 1934 Kung stated, in response to the American " nationalization of silver ", that " We also would like to nationalize silver but for China this is impossible because our Government is hampered by extraterritorial treaties.
In response to the rise of European fascism in the 1930s he was asked to write We Europeans with the ethnologist A. C. Haddon, zoologist Alexander Carr-Saunders and historian of science Charles Singer.
Written by Freddie Mercury, " We Are the Champions " was built on audience response, with Brian May stating ; ' We wanted to get the crowds waving and singing.
The name " West Lothian question " was coined by the Ulster Unionist MP Enoch Powell in his response to Dalyell's speech: " We have finally grasped what the Honourable Member for West Lothian is getting at.
In response, a Japanese website posted guidelines on how to write an English-language letter of protest to Google, and how to attack VANK's website ; they were quoted as stating, " We must fight against VANK ... We lost our sea, but this does not mean a defeat.
In October 2011, Keenan said in response to questions of new material, " We ’ ve been kicking around some stuff.
This song and its well-known partner " We Are the Champions " were written in response to an event occurring in the 1977 British Tour.
Of the project, Angela Baker has said, " We are constantly amazed at the response we had, and still get, to our Calendar.
In response to extensive criticism of Protect and Survive, Civil Defence: Why We Need It was also printed in November 1981 by the Home Office, which attempted to defend the reasons for civil defence.
The response was " We could probably tell you the number of people who have declared themselves as such, but we don't publish it ".
* Saying " We are not going to dignify with a response ;"
We understand the contention that every state and city needs to have some minimum infrastructure for emergency response.
Glenn Greenwald in response said that " We don ’ t need a state-run media because our media outlets volunteer for the task ..." and commented that the media often act as propaganda for the government without coercion.

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