Peter Gay places the zenith of deism " from the end of the 1690s, when the vehement response to John Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious ( 1696 ) started the deist debate, to the end of the 1740s when the tepid response to Conyers Middleton's Free Inquiry signalled its close.

It came to be used in the debate of the NATO countries in response to Willy Brandt's attempts to normalize relations with East Germany, and the following widespread scepticism in Germany against NATO's Dual-Track Decision.

The film sparked debate across the country, presenting mixed assessments on the role of the U. S. government and its response along with the controversy that normally arises when depicting recent, traumatic events.

Finally, because the free will response assumes a libertarian account of free will, the debate over its adequacy naturally widens into a debate concerning the nature and existence of free will.

Well known for his wit and sense of humor, one of Marshall's most enduring jokes came during a Senate debate in which, in response to Senator Joseph Bristow's catalog of the nation's needs, Marshall quipped the often-repeated phrase, " What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar ", provoking laughter.

While many outpatient commitment laws have been passed in response to violent acts committed by people with mental illness, most proponents involved in the outpatient commitment debate base their arguments on the quality of life and cost associated with untreated mental illness and " revolving door patients " who experience a cycle of hospitalization, treatment and stabilization, release, and decompensation.

There is some debate over the appropriate use of such medications, as fever is part of the body's immune response to infection.

The poem was said to be a response to an ongoing debate on the question of whether poetry should be natural, or written according to predetermined artificial rules inherited from the classical past.

Although the clinical relevance of the fungal airway colonization is still a matter of debate, filamentous fungi may contribute to the local inflammatory response, and therefore to the progressive deterioration of the lung function, as often happens with allergic broncho-pulmonary aspergillosis ( ABPA ) – the most common fungal disease in the context of CF, involving a Th2-driven immune response to Aspergillus.

Fisk strongly condemned the September 11 attacks, describing them as a " hideous crime against humanity ," but he also denounced the Bush administration's response to the attacks, arguing that " a score of nations " were being identified and positioned as " haters of democracy " or " kernels of evil ," and urged a more honest debate on U. S. policy in the Middle East.

In the discussion leading up to the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) then-Vice President Al Gore mentioned the Smoot – Hawley tariff as a response to NAFTA objections voiced by Ross Perot during a debate in 1993 they had on The Larry King Show.

In response to this political threat and to growing popular calls for greater accountability within government, the king and the prime minister initiated an ongoing national debate on the constitutional and political future of Swaziland.

In response to this debate, the Firearms ( Amendment ) Act 1997 and the Firearms ( Amendment ) ( No. 2 ) Act 1997 were enacted, which effectively made private ownership of handguns illegal in the United Kingdom.

During a debate in Parliament on 2 March 1978 Michael Foot labelled Tebbit a " semi-house-trained polecat " in response to a question from Tebbit asking if he accepted that the legislation being proposed that made it compulsory for people to join a Trade Union was an act of Fascism.

NRA formed a legislative affairs division in response to debate concerning passage of the National Firearms Act in 1934.

This debate can be illustrated by the response to groups like the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, which use property destruction and sabotage as direct action tactics.

There continues to be vigorous debate within Kenyan society and among the academic community within and without Kenya regarding the nature of Mau Mau and its aims, as well as the response to and effects of the uprising.

" The debate over Linux vs Windows is missing, showing the origin of the OS only as a response to proprietary and expensive Sun and DEC software and hardware, and its growth solely due to the Apache web server.

* In 2006, in response to a candidate ( Ottón Solís ) who challenged him to a debate, Oscar Arias said: “ Eagles live on high and see from on high, and don ’ t bother to watch what the snails are doing ”, referring himself as an eagle and other the candidates as “ snails ”.

During a May 3, 2007, presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Thompson said in response to a question from moderator Chris Matthews that a private employer opposed to homosexuality should have the right to fire a gay worker.

It has also campaigned against rendition flights, including introducing a debate in the Scottish Parliament over the issue, and against the lack of response from the UK government in Israel's war on Lebanon.

The series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas for U. S. Senate were true, face-to-face debates, with no moderator ; the candidates took it in turns to open each debate with a one-hour speech, then the other candidate had an hour and a half to rebut, and finally the first candidate closed the debate with a half-hour response.

* Chemokinesis is also induced by molecules of the liquid phase of the surrounding environment ; however, the response elicited is a not vectorial, random taxis.

In response to letters prompted by this paper, Dyson replied, " A solid shell or ring surrounding a star is mechanically impossible.

In response to the controversy surrounding The Bell Curve, the American Psychological Association's Board of Scientific Affairs established a task force in 1995 to write a report on the state of intelligence research which could be used by all sides as a basis for discussion, " Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns ".

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

In 2006, in response to 9 / 11 conspiracy theories surrounding its original news story, the BBC said that confusion had arisen with the common Arabic names, and that its later reports on the hijackers superseded its original story.

The second application for UV microscopes is contrast enhancement where the response of individual samples is enhanced, relative to their surrounding, due to the interaction of light with the molecules within the sample itself.

Their paper was partly a response to Jack Drescher's 2001 paper, " Ethical issues surrounding attempts to change sexual orientation ", which used the principle of " Do no harm " to argue against conversion therapy.

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States ( 9 / 11 Commission ), chaired by former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, was formed in late 2002 to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the attacks, including preparedness for, and the immediate response to, the attacks.

( Some modern textual scholars consider that the Song of Moses, believed to be originally distinct from the surrounding text of Deuteronomy and not written by Moses, may in reality have been written in response to the theological implications of this disastrous defeat, possibly by Samuel himself.

The book is inspired by the failed mutiny on board the Storozhevoy by Valery Sablin in 1975 ; however, the military response depicted in the novel is likely from events surrounding the sinking and subsequent salvaging of K-129.

In response to public suggestions by some advocates of firearms for home defense, that homeowners were at high risk of injury from home invasions and would be wise to acquire a firearm for purposes of protection, Kellermann investigated the circumstances surrounding all in-home homicides in three cities of about half a million population each over five years, and found that the risk of a homicide was in fact slightly higher in homes where a handgun was present, rather than lower.

Fever can be differentiated from hyperthermia by the circumstances surrounding it and its response to anti-pyretic medications.

The traditional Chinese response of building higher and higher levees along the banks sometimes also contributed to the severity of the floods: When flood water did break through the levees, it could no longer drain back into the river bed as it would after a normal flood as the river bed was sometimes now higher than the surrounding countryside.

Both the oddities surrounding the water bottles and Pryor's response to its use were noticed after the bout, and controversy raged for months.

Most of the Mexican media reported that the students provoked the army ’ s murderous response with sniper fire from the apartment buildings surrounding the plaza.

The territory was formed a year earlier in response to the discovery of gold in the surrounding area in 1829.

* An O-ring response system is a rubber ring embedded in a recessed groove in the inside side wall of each half of the yo-yo body, surrounding the axle.

AmStar staffs a 24-hour Advanced Cardiac Life Support Paramedic unit in Thomasville, which also responds to the surrounding unincorporated areas in Clarke County, as well as providing mutual aid response into Marengo, Clarke, and Monroe Counties.

The Laurel Volunteer Fire Department has the main purpose of providing firefighting and rescue emergency response for the community of Laurel, the surrounding Laurel and to all those who are traveling though and find themselves in need of assistance.

In September 2003, the Associated Press's long-time chess column was cancelled in response to the controversies surrounding the split World Chess Championship between 1993 and 2006, and the disorganization demonstrated by FIDE.

* Wade Englund's apologetic response to the Tanners ' claims of wrongdoing surrounding the Kirtland Safety Society

Pinel's most important contribution may have been the observation and conviction that there could be sanity and rationality even in cases that seemed on the surface impossible to understand, and that this could appear for periods in response to surrounding events ( and not just because of such things as the phase of the moon, a still common assumption and the origin of the term lunatic ).

There are also many ethical and legal questions surrounding the use of Propranolol-based medications for use as a " memory dampener ," including: altering ( memory-recalled ) evidence during an investigation, modifying behavioral response to past ( albeit traumatic ) experiences, the regulation of these drugs, and others.

After the hype surrounding the release of Be Here Now had started to wane, critical response to the band became calmer and more considered, leading to a media backlash.

The Monitors inception was, in part, a response by Eddy to the journalism of her day, which relentlessly covered the sensations and scandals surrounding her new religion with varying degrees of accuracy.