Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

British reaction to the creation of the EEC was mixed and complex.

The aftermath of the Rising, and in particular the British reaction to it, helped to sway a large section of Irish nationalist opinion away from hostility or ambivalence and towards support for the rebels of Easter 1916.

During the 1920 Jerusalem riots, the 1921 Palestine riots and the 1929 Palestine riots, Palestinian Arabs manifested hostility against Zionist immigration and Jewish communities, which provoked the reaction of Jewish militias, sometimes supported by British troops.

In 1935, Sir Eric Phipps, the British Ambassador to Germany, complained to London about Ribbentrop's British associates in the Anglo-German Fellowship, that they created " false German hopes as in regards to British friendship and caused a reaction against it in England, where public opinion is very naturally hostile to the Nazi regime and its methods ".

The different foreign-policy conceptions held by Hitler and Ribbentrop were illustrated in their reaction to the Fall of Singapore in 1942: Ribbentrop wanted this great British defeat to be a day of celebration in Germany, whereas Hitler forbade any celebrations on the grounds that Singapore represented a sad day for the principles of white supremacy.

At the same time, British, French and Soviet negotiators scheduled three-party talks on military matters to occur in Moscow in August 1939, aiming to define what the agreement would specify should be the reaction of the three powers to a German attack.

As a reaction to an anti-Sandinista statement by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her proposal to ban the use of the word itself, punk rock group The Clash used the title Sandinista!

Credit for invention of the steam turbine is given both to the British engineer Sir Charles Parsons ( 1854 – 1931 ), for invention of the reaction turbine and to Swedish engineer Gustaf de Laval ( 1845 – 1913 ), for invention of the impulse turbine.

* Elizabeth I of England decrees that all Africans should be removed from the British realm in reaction to the food crisis.

Lyndon B. Johnson had indeed asked Wilson for some British forces for Vietnam, and when it was later suggested to Powell that Washington understood that the public reaction to Powell's allegations had made Wilson realise he would not have favourable public opinion and so could not go through with it, Powell responded: " The greatest service I have performed for my country, if that is so ".

In an advert in the British newspaper The Guardian, the aftermath of the Three Little Pigs tale is told in the style of modern news media coverage, including social media reaction and the sociopolitical consequences of the story.

Nel suggested that the unflattering characterisation of the extremely conventional, status-conscious, materialistic Dursleys was Rowling's reaction to the family policies of the British government in the early 1990s, which treated the married heterosexual couple as the " preferred norm ", while the author was a single mother.

In reaction, King Philip V of Spain annulled the " Asiento Right " and had all British ships in Spanish harbours confiscated.

The Acadians ' joining the fight against the British was partially a reaction to the British having evicted them from Acadia.

German reaction by the General Staff to the first day's events was one of surprise ; they did not expect such a big attack by the British.

In contrast, historian Ben Rubin argues that because the American Revolution was a conflict that as often pitted neighbor against neighbor — Whigs ( advocates of Revolution ) against Tories ( loyalists to Britain )— as it pitted nascent Americans against the British, many people stayed neutral until goaded into taking a stand in reaction to military atrocities, such as those attributed to Tarleton, or individual atrocities, such as the death of Thomas Young's brother, or the burning of Thomas Sumter's house and the abuse of his wife, or the interrogation at knife point of William Bratton's wife, the beating of their young son, and the family's imprisonment in their own attic -- individual atrocities similar to those depicted in The Patriot.

Despite promotion involving former Formula One racing driver Stirling Moss, the reaction upon its release was that the C5 was impractical in the British climate meaning it was only comfortably usable in southern England in the spring and summer, and possibly dangerous on busy roads.

The movement developed as a reaction to British colonialism in India, which was believed by a group of prominent Indian scholars consisting of Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi, Shah Rafi al-Din, Sayyid Muhammad Abid, Zulfiqar Ali, Fadhl al-Rahman Usmani and Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi to be corrupting the Islamic religion.

A U. S. reaction to the cozy conventionality of British murder mysteries was the American " hard-boiled " school of crime writing of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Mickey Spillane, among others.

Yet, more often than not, though the setting was grittier, the violence more likely to be on-stage, and the style more colloquial, the plots were, as often as not, whodunits constructed in much the same way as the " cozier " British mysteries they were written in reaction to.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

Game reserves have, however, been established in South Africa, British Central Africa, British East Africa, Somaliland, etc., while measures for the protection of wild animals were laid down in an international convention signed in May 1900.

The Pacific Fur Company failed, however, and the fort and fur trade were sold to the British in 1813.

Canova in 1817 by George Hayter ( British Embassy, Paris ) There was, however, another proof, which modesty forbade him to mention, an ever-active benevolence, especially towards artists.

The German defences in Serre were supposed to have been obliterated by sustained, heavy, British shelling during the preceding week ; however, as the battalion advanced it met with fierce resistance.

The forms of spoken English, however, vary considerably more than in most other areas of the world where English is spoken, so a uniform concept of British English is more difficult to apply to the spoken language.

The party is keen to maintain its independent identity however, and argues that the need for a modern Liberal force in British politics has never been greater.

They are usually considered closest in form to British broadside ballads and in terms of style are largely indistinguishable, however, they demonstrate a particular concern with occupations, journalistic style and often lack the ribaldry of British broadside ballads.

The British Rail Mark 2 coach, however, carried the B4 bogies from new.

The French however failed to achieve British participation in a common intervention to stop the Balkan conflict.

Later, however, the British would have spectacular success defeating the Italians and Germans at the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa, and in the D-Day invasion of Normandy with the help of American, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand forces.

This work, however, did go on to influence the prayer books of many British colonies.

In 1901, he was caught planning to sabotage strategic British installations in Cape Town and sentenced to life in prison ; however, he escaped and was re-captured several times again throughout his life.

During the Napoleonic wars the Kingdom of the Netherlands adopted the French code civil in 1809, however the Dutch colonies in the Cape of Good Hope and Sri Lanka, at the time called Ceylon, were seized by the British to prevent them being used as bases by the French Navy.

The British film industry produced a number of highly successful film series, however, including the Doctor series, the St. Trinian's films and the increasingly bawdy Carry On films.

Near the year 550, however, the British began to lose ground once more, and within twenty-five years, it appears that control of almost all of southern England was in the hands of the invaders.

In 1908 however the six British lancer regiments in existence resumed use of this impressive but obsolete weapon for active service.

By the mid-19th century, however, the powerful British Empire gave up mercantilism and trade restrictions and introduced the principle of free trade, with few restrictions or tariffs.

This does not mean, however, that little British opium clippers from prior to 1830 were not called " opium clippers " just as they are today.

Jones however was the one who is generally credited with having gone much of the way towards a practical solution through his scheme of ' Cardinal Vowels ', a relatively simple system of reference vowels which for many years has been taught systematically to students within the British tradition.

The college was allowed to falter however after Ramsay left Halifax shortly after its establishment to serve as the Governor General of British North America.

Thus the dragoon regiments of the Imperial German Army wore the pickelhaube ( spiked helmet ) of the same design as those of the infantry and the British dragoons wore scarlet tunics, In other respects however dragoons had adopted the same tactics, roles and equipment as other branches of the cavalry and the distinction had become simply one of traditional titles.