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response and forced
They launched a major invasion of Gaul and northern Italy in 268, when the Romans were forced to denude much of their German frontier of troops in response to a massive invasion of the Goths from the east.
In November 1956, Eisenhower forced an end to the combined British, French and Israeli invasion of Egypt in response to the Suez Crisis.
" This massive audience response forced the record company to flip the songs, so that subsequent copies of the single listed the more popular song on the A-side.
The latter measure was applied after the so-called general strike from 1 September to 3 September 1942, which paralyzed the administration, agriculture, industry and education as response to the declaration of forced conscription by the German administration on 30 August 1942.
This can render occupying the corner largely useless, and often much worse than that because of loss of tempo ( Where it is an issue of running out of desirable moves and being forced to make undesirable ones, the grabbing of a corner may give the opponent not only the wedging response but also a follow-up move which one cannot respond to practically ).
This provoked such a response that the Government was forced to relent and allow the Scottish banks to continue printing pound notes.
Bishop Richard Watson, forced to address this new audience in his influential response to Paine, An Apology for the Bible, writes: " I shall, designedly, write this and the following letters in a popular manner ; hoping that thereby they may stand a chance of being perused by that class of readers, for whom your work seems to be particularly calculated, and who are the most likely to be injured by it.
" The essay chastises the society of the time for making a disproportionate response to what Bentham appears to consider a largely private offence – public displays or forced acts being dealt with rightly by other laws.
The Mono Lake Committee formed in response, winning a legal battle that forced Los Angeles to partially restore the lake level.
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.
At this time, his proof that white light was a combination of primary colours ( found via prismatics ) replaced the prevailing theory of colours and received an overwhelmingly favourable response, and occasioned bitter disputes with Robert Hooke and others, which forced him to sharpen his ideas to the point where he already composed sections of his later book Opticks by the 1670s in response.
Chiang Kai-shek threatened the French with war in response to manoeuvering by the French and Ho Chi Minh against each other, forcing them to come to a peace agreement, and in February 1946 he also forced the French to surrender all of their concessions in China and renounce their extraterritorial privileges in exchange for withdrawing from northern Indochina and allowing French troops to reoccupy the region starting in March 1946.
* Seminole People, originally from the present-day state of Florida, signed the Treaty of Payne's Landing in 1832, in response to the 1830 Indian Removal Act, that forced the tribes to move to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma.
In rejecting this response he was forced to arrive at his own solution.
In response, the Regent marched on Perth, but was forced to withdraw and negotiate when another reformed contingent arrived from the west.
Dynamic response or forced response is the response of an object to changes in a fluid flow such as aircraft to gusts and other external atmospheric disturbances.
They were eventually forced off by officials after overrunning their allotted time ; the festival organisers were at that point already annoyed at the band when, in response to their invitation to join other recording artists in signing a Make Poverty History poster which would be auctioned off for charity, lead singer Bobby Gillespie instead altered the poster so that it read " Make Israel History ".
In practice, this meant state support of all-white schools that appeared as a response to forced integration.
Both the battles of Huck ’ s Defeat and Kings Mountain, a direct response to the Waxhaw Massacre, were fought in the New Acquisition, and Lord Cornwallis was forced northward, and ultimately to surrender at Yorktown, after facing defeat in the Carolina Upcountry.
In response to the forced liquidation of mortgage-backed assets caused by the Carlyle margin calls and other similar developments in credit markets, on March 11, 2008, the Federal Reserve gave Wall Street's primary dealers the right to post mortgaged-back securities as collateral for loans of up to $ 200 billion in higher-grade, U. S. government-backed securities.
In response to this act of violence, the state introduced a second Public Safety Act, which introduced the death penalty and was widely unpopular with the public, and an Electoral Amendment Act which forced elected TDs to take the Oath of Allegiance.
News of the death of Gediminas forced Algirdas to quit the campaign before Simeon could arrange a military response.

response and reversals
The firm's management methods make mechanical, non-discretionary trading decisions in response to systematic determinations of reversals in each market's direction, with the explicit intention of precluding not only human emotion, but also any subjective evaluation of such things as the so-called fundamentals, to trigger each decision to be long or short each market, or not.

response and proposed
Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.
Perennialism was a solution proposed in response to what was considered by many to be a failing educational system.
In response to the early-to-mid-17th century " continental rationalism " John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ) proposed in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1689 ) a very influential view wherein the only knowledge humans can have is a posteriori, i. e., based upon experience.
Encephalization has been tied to an increasing emphasis on meat in the diet, or with the development of cooking, and it has been proposed that intelligence increased as a response to an increased necessity for solving social problems as human society became more complex.
In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, then a scientist at CERN, proposed and later prototyped a new hypertext project in response to a request for a simple, immediate, information-sharing facility, to be used among physicists working at CERN and other academic institutions.
The thermoregulatory hypothesis ( first proposed by Darwin in 1871 and later developed by Dr. Peter Wheeler, 1984, 1985 ) suggests that a need for decreased body hair originated as a response to climate change that began approximately 3 million years ago.
The response arrived on 21 February, but the proposed terms were so harsh that even Lenin briefly thought that the Soviet government had no choice but to fight.
In response to criticism of verificationism, A. J. Ayer proposed a weak version.
Another prominent tether is Sigma-1R, another chaperone whose stabilization of ER-resident IP3R has been proposed to preserve communication at the MAM during the metabolic stress response.
On 15 May 2009, in response to their parties opposition to a proposed referendum to allow the President to seek a third term, the three members of RDP-Jama ' a and ANDP-Zaman Lahiya were replaced with ministers drawn from the MNSD-Nassara.
Behaviourists such as John B. Watson and B. F. Skinner have proposed that perception acts largely as a process between a stimulus and a response but have noted that Gilbert Ryle's " ghost in the machine of the brain " still seems to exist.
In response to the catastrophic situation in post-war Germany, he proposed extensive social reforms through the establishment of a Threefold Social Order in which the cultural, political and economic realms would be largely independent.
In response to the sector ’ s recent decline, a new mining policy is being drafted by consultants, paid for by a grant from China, and legislation to facilitate small-scale mining has also been proposed.
In response to the increasing need of transport capacity and the cost of ground surface infrastructures, an underground transportation has been proposed and studied.
The advisory opinion was issued in response to a formal request made by the International Seabed Authority following two prior applications the Authority's Legal and Technical Commission had received from the Republics of Nauru and Tonga regarding proposed activities ( a plan of work to explore for polymetallic nodules ) to be undertaken in the Area by two State-sponsored contractors ( Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. ( sponsored by the Republic of Nauru ) and Tonga Offshore Mining Ltd. ( sponsored by the Kingdom of Tonga ).
Several authors have proposed that symptoms of ADHD arise from a primary deficit in a specific executive function ( EF ) domain such as working memory, response inhibition or a more general weakness in executive control.
This disruption of host cell protein kinase activity causes apoptosis of macrophages, and it has been proposed that this is important for the establishment of infection and for evasion of the host immune response.
" This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent.
In response, Sigmund Freud proposed that we do not move about in a common world, but a common thought process.
If there can also be a statement of what constitutes the maximum allowable 95 percentile response time, then an injector configuration could be used to test whether the proposed system met that specification.
Hamilton decided to launch a measured and extensive defense and explanation of the proposed Constitution as a response to the opponents of ratification, addressing the people of the state of New York.
In the 19th century Aonghas MacCoinnich of Glasgow proposed that Scoti was derived from the Gaelic word Sgaothaich but this proposal to date has not been met with any response in mainstream place-name studies.
Some have proposed that the number of deaths was influenced by the development of risk compensation, which says that drivers adjust their behavior in response to the increased sense of personal safety wearing a seat belt provides.
Various Jewish thinkers, however, have proposed a " finite God ," sometimes in response to the problem of evil and ideas about free will.
The 19th century author Aonghas MacCoinnich of Glasgow proposed that Scoti was derived from a Gaelic ethnonym ( proposed by MacCoinnich ) Sgaothaich from sgaoth " swarm ", plus the derivational suffix-ach ( plural-aich ) However, this proposal to date has not been met with any response in mainstream place-name studies.

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