Switzerland immediately reacted to the crisis.

But NATO, though it defends Estonia, reacted very prudently. Why?

Underlines also that the parties reacted differently to this plan

3. Underlines also that the parties reacted differently to this plan

Turkey reacted by landing troops and occupying portions of the island, quickly overtaking the newly installed regime.

You would have thought I'd had a nervous breakdown, recalled Ms. Schroeder about how the press reacted to her.

The British and German armies reacted to this change by exchanging their bright coloured uniforms for drab greys and browns.

So there appear to be good reasons why global markets so far have reacted benignly to today s geopolitical risks. What could change that?

I just, without a plan, I just reacted to little requests, not work requests, those I all said no to, but other little requests.

BERLIN When the democratic revolt in Tunisia successfully ousted the old regime, the world reacted with amazement. Democracy from below in the Arab world?

The international community, including civil society, the private sector and the general public, reacted spontaneously and with great generosity to aid the affected populations.

During the mission to Bermuda, the people had reacted to the information they had received and had asked good questions, another indication of its importance.

He asked whether the Special Rapporteur found difficulty in carrying out his mandate and how the international community and the two parties to the conflict reacted.

The Committee reacted favourably to the Team's earlier recommendations concerning cooperation with Interpol (S 2005 83, paras. 127 130 and 138 142), and the Team believes the

Kosovo's institutions reacted quickly and calmly in electing a new Government after the indictment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of former Prime Minister Haradinaj.

Second, the international community reacted unfavourably to Egypt's closure of the Suez Canal to Israeli shipping beginning in 1948, as closing the Canal was not necessary for Egypt's defence.

You see, if you have, over time, reacted negatively to past events and people, neural pathways are laid down by chemical and electrical signals that are sent through the brain.

Among the States which reacted was Mexico, a country adjacent to the United States, which issued a presidential declaration one month later, incorporating its continental shelf into its national territory.

How have other countries reacted? France, which is around 80 dependent on nuclear energy, and is a big exporter of nuclear plant technology, initially avoided most of the global anti nuclear concerns.

Not surprisingly, Pakistan has reacted angrily to such statements they are also alarmed. General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Pakistan s army chief, cautioned the US against intervening in the terrorist bastion of North Waziristan.

Not surprisingly, at least some people at the US Securities and Exchange Commission have reacted negatively this is stepping onto their turf, after all. And the lobbyists are, naturally, out in full force.

China reacted to Ishihara s proposal with its usual sensitivity it refused to receive the scheduled visit of Ishihara s son, who is Secretary General of Japan s Liberal Democratic Party, the country s main opposition party.

Different countries have reacted differently, influenced by their historical experience and their economic interests. Yet it is essential for the European Union to develop a unified policy, reconciling these divergent national interests and attitudes.

The Federal Government required the University of Puerto Rico to allow such military activities, threatened to withhold federal funds if they were opposed and silenced those who reacted against the interests of the military.

German firms reacted by outsourcing the labor intensive parts of their production chains and curtailing their investment in Germany. The share of net investment in GNP is now the second lowest in all OECD countries.

LONDON In November, the United Kingdom s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced a settlement in which six banks would be fined a total of 4.3 billion for manipulating the foreign exchange market. And yet share prices barely reacted.

The Republika Srpska government reacted badly to the measures which the High Representative, the United States and EUFOR announced following the refusal of NATO in December 2004 to admit Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Partnership for Peace.

Capitalism s three stabilizing devices lost their efficacy. While rich countries reacted more quickly and more wisely in stimulating their economies than in 1929, and the hemorrhaging of banks was stanched, this has not been enough to boost growth.

Unlike Musharraf, Zardari cannot count on the support of the army, which remains Pakistan s most powerful state institution. It has already reacted furiously to attempts to curb its powers and rein in the activities of its intelligence apparatus.

India s government has reacted with fury to the mistreatment of an official enjoying diplomatic immunity, and public indignation has been widespread and nearly unanimous. So, has an era of steadily improving ties between the two countries come to an end?

Different European countries have reacted differently to the rise of a hostile Russia, influenced by their historical experience and their economic interests. Europe must resist the geopolitical challenge that Russia is posing, and it must be unified to have any chance of success.

India s government, which has reacted to previous terrorist outrages with calm and restraint, has no choice this time but to respond decisively. Anything that smacks of temporizing and appeasement will further inflame the public a few months before national elections are due.

These claims began to be made by respectable conservatives, and even some social democrats, in the 1990 s. They reacted against a rather smug liberal establishment that tended to dismiss all critical thought about immigration or non Western faiths and traditions as racism and bigotry.

Germany primarily reacted to low wage competition from ex communist countries. Currently, the average wage of the ten countries that joined the EU in May 2004 is about one seventh of the West German wage level, and the Chinese wage is one twenty fifth.

The military reacted by portraying the party and its supporters as an atheist force of evil which had to be annihilated. The resulting carnage was deliberate, systematic, and spanned the country, with the most horrific and intense violence in Central and East Java, Bali, and northern Sumatra.

For example, some inflation targeting central banks have reacted to increases in prices of imported commodities by tightening monetary policy and thereby increasing the value of the currency. But adverse movements in the terms of trade must be accommodated they cannot be fought with monetary policy.

Eichengreen is my friend, teacher, and patron, and his book is to my mind the best explanation to date of why policymakers in Europe and the United States have reacted to the most dramatic economic collapse in almost four generations with half hearted measures and half finished interventions.

Firms and consumers reacted to this year s shocks by temporarily slowing consumption, capital spending, and job creation. As long as the shocks don t worsen (and as some become less acute), confidence and growth will recover in the second half of the year, and stock markets will rally again.

Israel has reacted positively to the will of the young generation, but it cannot and should not intervene in events in the Arab world. Our hearts are with the rebelling youngsters and their legitimate yearning for freedom and basic rights to express themselves, choose their leaders, and earn their own living.

Nobody will be caught unawares if the Fed acts next month, as many investors were in February 1994 and June 2004, the only previous occasions remotely comparable to the current one. And even in those cases, stock markets barely reacted to the Fed tightening, while bond market volatility proved short lived.

America has reacted strongly at least verbally to Russia s attack on its neighbor, in which the Russian army moved in first and made things safe for the Russian backed unofficial South Ossetian militias to burn and pillage Georgian property. But America is not in a strong position to go any further.

That is pretty much how most people reacted to the stories about bankers bonuses, when the great crash of 2007 2008 wiped out banks, businesses, shareholders savings, growth, and jobs. There was, as one banker charmingly conceded, a bit of asymmetry between what bankers were being paid and what their banks had lost.

It has also been reported to the Monitoring Group that some of the criminal groups using dhows to transport weapons from Yemen to Somalia reacted, for example, by dividing a single shipment of arms into smaller quantities and loading them on different dhows for transport across the Gulf of Aden to Puntland.

Earlier this month, the Indian government reacted to the revelations about the baseless nature of the glacier claim by announcing plans to establish what amounts to its own Indian IPCC to assess the impact of global warming. India s environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, declared There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism.

But what happened in the winter of 2004 2005 was not only about the Ukrainian people s democratic right to self determination and their national independence, but also about the future of the European order as it had emerged from the Cold War s end. At the time, Europe immediately understood the challenge and reacted effectively.