It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.

What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.

A few days later it was learned that General Howe was planning an attack upon the American camp.

Morgan was ordered to attack the enemy, who had meantime moved to Edge Hill on the left of the Americans.

The position of the new camp was admirably selected and well fortified, its easily defensible nature being one good reason why Howe did not attack it.

The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.

I was surprised and sorry to find in your issue of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet been published.

But the attack was made from an advance copy.

In this case, then, the military objective was accomplished with an epidemic agent solely through the results secured in the initial attack.

On the other hand, a similar attack might have been made on City B whose population was known to be lousy.

There was no extra horse so it was left to his comrades who, though numbering in the fifties, had stood around on the hillside nearby without firing a shot during the entire attack.

It was not even in writing Latin epigrams, sometimes bawdy ones, or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics, or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus's philological study of the New Testament.

A British officer had come aboard and told him that in case of enemy air attack he was not to open fire until bombs were actually dropped.

The troopers knew an attack was coming, but they didn't know when, and they didn't know where.

Because of this diversionary attack the main group that had been pinned down on the hill was able to surge forward again.

So was the attack upon Charles E. Bohlen when Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to Moscow.

He was invulnerable to attack, but he could be handled, Mickey knew, if he could be brought to make the first move.

One Republican senator told this correspondent that he was constantly being asked why he didn't attack the Kennedy administration on this score.

Mr. Hawksley said he was not critical of city residents for not knowing what to do or where to assemble in case of an air attack.

The Portland school board was asked Monday to take a positive stand towards developing and coordinating with Portland's civil defense more plans for the city's schools in event of attack.

A surprise attack from the Americans would destroy much of the Soviet ICBM fleet, allowing SDI to defeat a “ ragged ” Soviet retaliatory response.

In late 2005, the FABF acquired two Mil Mi-35 ' Hind ' attack helicopters from Russia in apparent response by moves by neighbouring Côte d ' Ivoire to bolster its own air attack capabilities during the Ivorian Civil War.

A response to a check is a legal move if it results in a position where the king is no longer under direct attack ( that is, not in check ).

This alert was in response to the crisis posed by the Soviet attack on Hungary which suppressed the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Coming from this phenomenological perspective on culturally mediated and socially situated action, Holzkamp launched a devastating and original methodological attack on behaviorism ( which he termed S – R ( stimulus – response ) psychology ) based on linguistic analysis, showing in minute detail the rhetorical patterns by which this approach to psychology creates the illusion of " scientific objectivity " while at the same time losing relevance for understanding culturally situated, intentional human actions.

* Immune response – Anytime a foreign object is introduced into human tissues, the immune system has evolved to attack the invader.

After Hamas assaulted a neighborhood in Gaza mostly populated by the Fatah-aligned Hilles clan in response to their attack on Hamas which killed six of its members, the Hilles clan was relocated to Jericho on 4 August 2008.

However, the immediate response to the 1816 collection was to ignore Christabel and Kubla Khan or to just attack Kubla Khan.

The French were reluctant to reduce their armaments without a guarantee of military help if they were attacked ; Poland and Czechoslovakia felt vulnerable to attack from the west and wanted the League's response to aggression against its members to be strengthened before they disarmed.

* 1966 – In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.

The attack was a response to Iran's missile attack three days earlier on the MV Sea Isle City, a reflagged Kuwaiti oil tanker at anchor off Kuwait.

In response, Nobunaga launched a rapid attack, driving the Rokkaku clan out of their castles.

:# Exposure to the phobic stimulus almost invariably provokes an immediate anxiety response, which may take the form of a situationally bound or situationally predisposed panic attack.

The United States froze economic and military assistance to Panama in the summer of 1987 in response to the domestic political crisis and an attack on the U. S. embassy.

The complement system of the immune response also involves a complex sequential proteolytic activation and interaction that result in an attack on invading pathogens.

In response, Saladin built a fleet of 30 galleys to attack Beirut in 1182.

Following the Armistice, South Korea and the U. S. agreed to a " Mutual Defense Treaty ", under which an attack on either party in the Pacific area would summon a response from both.

Various slogans and captions were employed by media outlets to brand coverage of the September 11th terrorist attack, its after effects, and the U. S. government response.

T ' ai chi ch ' uan is the study of appropriate change in response to outside forces, the study of yielding and " sticking " to an incoming attack rather than attempting to meet it with opposing force.

Franks was the U. S. general leading the attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon in 2001.

The American Navy has reconsidered their rules of engagement in response to this attack.

When Dingane sent an impi ( armed force ) of around twelve thousand Zulu warriors to attack the local contingent of Voortrekkers in response, the Voortrekkers defended themselves at a battle at Nacome River ( called the Battle of Blood River ) on 16 December 1838 where the vastly outnumbered Voortrekker contingent defeated the Zulu warriors.

In response, the security situation deteriorated with the creation of the socialist Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen ( FLOSY ) which started to attack the NLF in a bid for power, as well as attacking the British.