This fast population growth and slow response from the established church allowed non-conformism to flourish in the town.

In May 1553, in response to a public petition, the first royal charter for the town was issued by King Edward VI, granting it the status of borough.

President Bill Clinton, the moderator in a town meeting discussing the topic " Race In America ", in response to a participant argument that the issue was not affirmative action but " racial preferences " asked the participant a loaded question: " Do you favor the United States Army abolishing the affirmative-action program that produced Colin Powell?

In response to these challenges bishop Cresconio, in the mid 11th century, fortified the entire town, building walls and defensive towers.

In response to a letter from Paul Truswell, MP for the Pudsey constituency ( which includes Horsforth, a town proud of its connection with HMS Aubretia ), U. S. president Bill Clinton wrote assuring that the film's plot was only a work of fiction.

Unlike his earlier town villas Corbusier was able to carefully design all four sides of the Villa Savoye in response to the view and the orientation of the sun.

On 13 November 1966, Israel launched a major raid against the Jordanian administered West Bank town of as-Samu, in response to a Fatah-implemented roadside bomb attack which had killed three members of the Israeli security forces near the southern Green Line border.

The response was simple but effective: when a fellow member was arrested for speaking, large numbers of people descended on the location and invited the authorities to arrest all of them, until it became too expensive for the town.

When revolutionary forces forced their way into Norfolk, Virginia, and used waterfront buildings as cover for shots at British vessels out in the river, the response of destruction of those buildings was ingeniously used to the advantage of the rebels, who encouraged the spread of fire throughout the largely Loyalist town, and spread propaganda blaming it on the British.

According to the provincial administrator of Basilan, more than 900 families have been displaced as a result of the deployment of soldiers in Basilan in response to the beheading of 11 soldiers of the Philippine Marines who were killed in an encounter with MILF in Al-Barkah town.

Preston's response was to bombard Jacobite positions within the town.

The workhouse building was constructed in 1840, in response to a sudden increase in extreme poverty and famine in the Roscommon town area.

Many of the changes to the town centre since 2000 have been in some way a response to competition from Bluewater Shopping Centre, 9 miles to the east in Greenhithe, Kent.

In 1882 the county seat of Alturas County was moved from Rocky Bar in present-day Elmore County to Hailey, in response to a population shift from Rocky Bar – which would eventually become a ghost town – to the Wood River Valley.

In July 2012, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, in response to allegations that the Colorado City government, including law enforcement, was taking orders from the FLDS, announced he was allocating funding to allow the Mohave County Sheriff's Department to take over law enforcement duties in the town.

Perhaps as a consequence of the practical, but somewhat less than heroic, response of the town to the raid, shortly afterwards, the name of the town was changed to Essex.

In response to the row, the mayor of the French town asked for Wallingford not to end the relationship, and declared 2009 as " a year for getting back in touch with Wallingford ".

The town is served by its own Forest Heights Police Department, which maintains primary responsibility for the response to and prevention and investigation of the majority of all crimes within the corporate limits.

Due to the rapid fire fighting response, including the use of airtankers, the fire was limited to just outside town.

The town of Centerville ( shortly thereafter spelled Centreville ) was established in 1792 on the turnpike road at the village of Newgate by the Virginia General Assembly in response to petitions by local landowners.

An emergency meeting of the town residents was held on the evening of August 19, 1943, to discuss the town's response to the problem.

In response to persistent confusion with nearby Fort Simcoe, the town changed its name to Wapato in 1903.

In 1976, in response to environmental concerns and automobile traffic congestion, Flower Mound residents proposed adding a system of recreational and commuter bikepaths around the town.

The town established the rescue lifeboat in response to the wreck of HMS Brazen in January 1800 when only one man of her crew of some 105 men could be saved.

Santa's lieutenants in charge of the Journal-Bulletin Santa Claus Fund are looking for the usual generous response this year from Cranston residents.

They sent copies of Santa Dog to west coast radio stations with no response until Bill Reinhardt, program director of KBOO-FM in Portland, Oregon received a copy.

In 1996, the story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted into a holiday musical " Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus " by David Kirchenbaum ( music and lyrics ) and Myles McDonnel ( book ).

The Regional Water Quality Control Board and the Santa Clara Valley Water District have engaged in a major outreach effort that has received extensive press and community response.

On September 11, 1996, Anschutz sold the combined company to the Union Pacific Railroad, partly in response to the earlier merger of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe which formed the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway.

The organization was chartered in 2006 as a response to a struggling economy and the Santa Fe Trail Council's Board deficit.

In response to the victory by Che Guevara at the Battle of Santa Clara, the U. S .- backed President Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba in the early morning of 1 January 1959.

The C636P was a dual service design, and the C636F was Alco's response to a request by the Santa Fe Railroad for a cowled locomotive in both cab and booster form.

He developed a reputation for being a fast and clever improviser, in the same vein as Marvin Santiago, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Oscar D ' León and other salsa singers who could improvise dozens of soneos ( improvisations within a call – response format ) on the spot.

In the early 1970s Corgi Toys issued a range of dragsters in response not only to the increased following of this form of motorsport in the UK, focussed on the Santa Pod Raceway in Northamptonshire, but also the attention brought to these vehicles by Mattel's Hot Wheels.

In response to this flooding, the Santa Clara Valley Water District ( SCVWD ) launched a series of flood protection projects along the Guadalupe River to ensure that residential and commercial areas near the river are protected from 100-year floods.

In response to public opposition, the USACE replaced the Mentone proposal with the $ 304 million Upper Santa Ana River Dam, later to be called Seven Oaks Dam, in a bedrock canyon one mile ( 1. 6 km ) upstream in the southern San Bernardino Mountains.

In response, Santa returns the entire town's letters to him unopened.

The second took place on 1 April 1855, at the hands of troops loyal to Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna during the Revolution of Ayutla, in response to the city's expressed support for Gen. Juan Álvarez.

In response, some residents of the co-ops rallied support for the families by throwing benefit concerts, establishing a protest " tent city " in the center of the UCSB campus, and staging marches throughout Santa Barbara to raise awareness of the plight these families face.

After Santa Anna's dissolution of the Constitution of 1824, issues such as lack of access to courts, the militarization of the region's government ( e. g., response to Saltillo-Monclova problem ) and self-defense issues resulting in the confrontation in Gonzales, public sentiment turned towards revolution.

In response, Koch developed the idea for a park where children could have fun and visit Santa year-round.

In response to growing a boom in population, dramatic increases in recreation usage, and numerous drownings along the Central and Northern California coastline, a budget change proposal is approved that places lifeguards along the Russian River coastal area, more than doubles the size of the Santa Cruz seasonal lifeguard operation, and places two permanent lifeguards in the Monterey District.

In response, Mexican president Antonio López de Santa Anna sent Brigadier General Manuel Micheltorena and 300 men to California in January 1842.