Within this context of spontaneous and unanalyzed responses to the experience of civilizational crisis, two basic organizations of response are observable: reaction and ideological progressivism.

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.

It describes mental processes as computational operations, so that, for example, a fear response is described as arising from a neurological computation that inputs the perceptional data, e. g. a visual image of a spider, and outputs the appropriate reaction, e. g. fear of possibly dangerous animals.

The reform activity provoked hostile reaction and eventually military response on the part of the neighboring powers.

In response to the growing reaction of the government, a radical branch of the Narodniks advocated and practiced terrorism.

In response to his criticism Nichiren and his followers were met with harsh reaction from the authorities supported by various Buddhist groups.

American critical response was also positive yet more muted, a reaction that persisted for much of the band's career.

Although the show's writers and producers received a minimal negative reaction from Willow choosing Tara over Oz, the response from viewers and critics alike was overwhelming towards Whedon for killing Tara, accusing him of homophobia.

The United States ' response was " very different but just as deep an instinctual reaction ... the United States have an almost neurotic sense of vulnerability ... its two coastlines, its two theatres, its two navies are separated by the entire length of the New World ... she lives with ... the nightmare of having one day to fight a decisive sea battle without the benefit of concentration, the perpetual spectre of naval ' war on two fronts '.

The United States presidential election of 1920 was dominated by the aftermath of World War I and a hostile response to certain policies of Democratic president Woodrow Wilson, as well as the massive reaction against the reformist zeal of the Progressive Era.

In response and reaction to this hyperbole, modern historians and biographers have tended to take a more dispassionate view of the Tudor period.

Having not seen any reaction from the Spanish, the 18th Vernon bombards ordered three open fire on the city, with the intention of provoking a response that he might get an idea of the defensive capacity of the Spanish.

This reaction results in an inflammatory response which can range from uncomfortable to dangerous.

The HPA axis is related to the general fight-or-flight response or acute stress reaction, and the role of catecholamines such as epinephrine, popularly known as adrenaline.

Also, external affairs minister Joe Clark was the first foreign affairs minister to land in previously isolated Ethiopia to lead the Western response to the 1984 – 1985 famine in Ethiopia ; Clark landed in Addis Ababa so quickly he had not even seen the initial CBC report that had created the initial and strong public reaction.

This protopathic stage seemed to be marked by an " all-or-nothing " aspect since there was either an inordinate response to sensation when compared with normal reaction or no reaction whatever if the stimulation was below the threshold.

" To begin with, the pupillary response test was based on fatally flawed assumptions: that visual stimuli would give an involuntary reaction able to be measured scientifically ; that homosexuals and heterosexuals would respond differently to these stimuli ; and that there were only two types of sexuality.

The advantages of hyper-threading are listed as: improved support for multi-threaded code, allowing multiple threads to run simultaneously, improved reaction and response time.

It has been argued that they could have been defensive sites constructed in response to invasion from continental Europe, built by invaders, or a military reaction to social tensions caused by an increasing population and resulting pressure on agriculture.

In response to a molecule such as a hormone binding to the exterior domain ( blue ) the GPCR changes shape and catalyzes a chemical reaction on the interior domain ( red ).

Each MEU is an expeditionary quick reaction force, deployed and ready for immediate response to any crisis.

In response to the pressure exerted on immigrants to culturally assimilate and also as a reaction against the denigration of the culture and " race " of non-Anglo white immigrants by Nativists, intellectuals on the left such as Horace Kallen, in Democracy Versus the Melting-Pot ( 1915 ), and Randolph Bourne, in Trans-National America ( 1916 ), laid the foundations for the concept of cultural pluralism.

In other cases, the conditioned response is a compensatory reaction that tends to offset the effects of the drug.

Internal national responsibility is a societal response to the impact of the Industrial Revolution.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

Rather it is rooted in a difference of response to the threat of social disintegration.

The implicit assumption of this response is that history is reversible.

Such a response, of course, misses the point that in crisis order is going out of existence.

Despite the hopelessness of the response, it is explicable in terms of the crisis of tradition itself.

The basic truth in the reactionary response is to be found in its realistic assumption of the primacy of the real over the ideational.

Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.

The only response we can think of is the humble one that at least we aren't playing the marimba with our shoes in the United Nations, but perhaps the heavy domes in the house of delegates can improve on this feeble effort.

Action taken today is often far more valuable than action taken several months later in response to a situation then out of control.

But as the popular response suggests, the potentiality of the Peace Corps is very great.

When a question contains two verbs, the response does not make clear which of them is being answered.

Many workers believe that the response is proportional to the incident momentum of the particles, a relation deduced from laboratory results linearly extrapolated to meteoritic velocities.

Thus when yes, I have is the response to have you finished reading the paper??

Whether or not it is in the industry's interest to allow the basic wage rate to rise obviously depends upon the extent to which the public-limit price rises in response to a basic wage increase, and the relation of this response to the increase in costs accompanying the wage increase.

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.

Can we discover what it is in Utopia that has evoked this response??

He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.

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 ''.