Perhaps in response to Hamilcar's raids, Rome did build another fleet paid for with donations from wealthy citizens and it was that fleet which rendered the Carthaginian success in Sicily futile, as the stalemate Hamilcar produced in Sicily became irrelevant following the Roman naval victory at the Battle of the Aegates Islands in 241 BC, where the new Roman fleet under consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus was victorious over an undermanned and hastily built Carthaginian fleet.

The great victory of his relief work, he stressed, was not that the government rushed in and provided all assistance ; it was that much of the assistance available was provided by private citizens and organizations in response to his appeals.

This resulted in a surge of Slovene and Croat nationalism in response and the collapse of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in 1990, the victory of nationalists in multiparty elections in most of Yugoslavia's constituent republics, and eventually civil war between the various nationalities beginning in 1991.

In response to those opposing the independence of Biafra, the solicitor for the indigenous people of Biafra made a strong argument in both national and international law asserting that what Nigeria got after the Biafra War of Independence was a military conquest and not a political victory.

An easy England victory disappeared in the closing stages thanks to some incredible bowling from Australia's Fred Spofforth, seemingly in response to unsportsmanlike behaviour earlier in the game from WG Grace.

" Grim " was Powell's response when he was asked what he thought of Thatcher's victory, because he believed she would renege like Heath did in 1972.

The first celebrity response to match a contestant's answer gave that contestant the victory.

He also introduced the Thracian practice of tattooing both men and women with eye-like patterns as a magical fetish, in response to an oracle which guaranteed victory against the neighbouring Edonians tribe if so adorned.

In response, Epaminondas said that his victory at Leuctra was a daughter destined to live forever.

On VE-day Haughey and other UCD students burnt the British Union Jack on College Green, outside Trinity College, Dublin, in response to a perceived disrespect afforded the Irish tricolour among the flags hung by the College in celebration of the Allied victory which ended World War II.

In response to congratulations for winning a costly victory over the Romans, he is reported to have said: " One more such victory will undo me!

He was also very critical of the Kremlin's harsh response to the opposition's victory.

A revived Hebner then dropped Koloff's arm three times with no response and awarded Luger a submission victory.

In response to his victory, Morales proclaimed that he was " obligated to accelerate the pace of change " in Bolivia, seeing his re-election as a mandate to further his socialist reforms.

In response to McEnroe's on-court outbursts during the Championships, the All England Club did not accord McEnroe honorary club membership, an honor normally given to singles champions after their first victory.

1 Dec. 2008 < http :// search. eb. com / eb / article-9062179 >.</ ref > Originally intended as a response to problems that arose during Britain's victory in the Seven Years War they later became a source of tension between inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies and the government in London.

The Persian invasion was a delayed response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion of Greece, which had been ended by the Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon.

The first celebrity response to match a contestant's answer gave that contestant the victory ; if there were still no match ( which was rare ), the round was replayed with a new question.

In a move widely assumed to be a response to the Bulldogs ' endzone celebration of the previous year, Meyer used both of his remaining timeouts with less than a minute to play, giving his team and their fans more time to celebrate the victory and prolonging the painful loss for Georgia players and fans.

Rallies in support of the troops were discouraged for fear that a patriotic response would lead to demands for victory and rollback.

In the west, and in response to the victory there obtained, most of the cities in the countries involved in the conflict erected memorials, with the memorials in smaller villages and towns often listing the names of each local soldier who had been killed in addition ( so far as the decision by the French and British in 1916 to construct governmentally designed cemeteries was concerned ) to their names being recorded on military headstones, often against the will of those directly involved, and without any opportunity of choice in the British Empire ( Imperial War Graves Commission ).

Willis's selection was a response to the provincial victory of the United Farmers of Ontario the previous month ; he defeated Major Fawcett Taylor after three other candidates ( including Prefontaine ) withdrew their names.

Mena wrote La Coronaçión ( or Calamicleos, The Coronation, 1438 ) and dedicated it to Íñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de Santillana ( marquis of Santillana ), in response to the latter ’ s 1438 victory on the frontier between Muslim and Christian Spain, which resulted in the taking of Huelma.

The response of reaction is dominated by a concern for what is vanishing.

When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.

Despite all this, the idea apparently has captured the imagination of countless youths whose parents are probably more surprised by the response than anybody else.

The recovery will probably be sparked by a rising rate of housing starts next spring in response to more readily available mortgage credit, as well as by an expansion of Government spending, well sustained consumer spending, and some rebuilding of business inventories.

It has become painfully clear that the very attempt to make the language of social research free of values by erecting mathematical and physical models, is itself a conditioned response to a world which pays a premium price for technological manipulation.

Old Mr. Pocket's frantic response to life imprisonment with a useless, social-climbing wife is to `` put his two hands into his disturbed hair '' and `` make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it '', whereas Joe Gargery endures the shrewish onslaughts of Mrs. Joe by apologetically drawing `` the back of his hand across and across his nose ''.

The effect is that the platform returns from an off-level position at a rapid rate until it is nearly level, at which point the platform is controlled by a proportional servo with low enough frequency response so that the noise has little effect on the leveling process.

This time the orchestra gave him some superb support fired by response to his own high mood.

Other calls include those given by a female in response to the advertisement call and a release call given by a male or female during unwanted attempts at amplexus.

It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

Any information may be conveyed by an analog signal ; often such a signal is a measured response to changes in physical phenomena, such as sound, light, temperature, position, or pressure.

Suggested alternatives include: a community under the pressure of starvation or extreme social stress, dismemberment and cannibalism as religious ritual or in response to religious conflict, the influx of outsiders seeking to drive out a settled agricultural community via calculated atrocity, or an invasion of a settled region by nomadic raiders who practiced cannibalism ; such peoples have existed in other times and places, e. g. the Androphagi of Europe.

* 1919 – Gandhi organizes a day of " prayer and fasting " in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre by the British.

The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.

In 1800, as the result of a professional disagreement over the galvanic response advocated by Galvani, he invented the voltaic pile, an early electric battery, which produced a steady electric current.

An ATP request packet could be answered by up to eight response packets.

This way, it could respond to duplicate requests with the same transaction ID by resending the same response data, without performing the actual operation again.

A further approach, elaborated by André Malraux in works such as The Voices of Silence, is that art is fundamentally a response to a metaphysical question (' Art ', he writes, ' is an ' anti-destiny ').

His remaining secular works in this late period fall into three categories: first, large scale cantatas and one oratorio Habsburg written on patriotic themes or in response to the international political situation, pedagogical works written to aid his students in voice, and finally simple songs, rounds or canons written for home entertainment ; many with original poetry by the composer.

The doctrine was formulated in the second century in the first of the three senses given by Ramsey, originally as a response to Gnostic claims of having received secret teaching from Christ or the apostles ; it emphasised the public manner in which the apostles had passed on authentic teaching to those whom they entrusted with the care of the churches they founded and that these in turn had passed it on to their successors.

The removal of dying cells by phagocytes occurs in an orderly manner without eliciting an inflammatory response.

Fas-induced apoptosis can be blocked by use of FLIPs ( FLICE-inhibitory proteins, which inhibit caspases-8 and-10 ), Bcl-2 ( which prevents cytochrome c release and the subsequent activation of caspase 9 ), and CrmA ( Cytokine response modifier A ).