verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a patient responds to treatment (= starts recovering )
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Some patients respond quickly and satisfactorily to treatment.
respond to a request
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Thank you to those who responded to our request for information last month.
respond to pressure (= do something as a result of pressure )
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The government responded to this pressure and modified the Bill.
respond to treatment (= become better when given treatment )
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He contracted a lung infection which did not respond to treatment.
responded cautiously
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The government responded cautiously to the move.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
by
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Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi responded by openly opposing Yeltsin, blaming the President's advisers for encouraging a confrontation with the legislature.
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I responded by putting this most amiable of politicians to the test.
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The United States responded by informally requesting her partners to use restraint in exercising their right to convert dollars into gold.
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Lincoln responded by warning that Southern prisoners would be executed man-for-man if the South carried out its plan.
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It seems to have responded by having her write to the White House asking for a state apology.
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Most responded by aggressively pursuing a policy of getting and acting smaller.
immediately
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Suppose your boss asks you for suggestions about how a particular problem could be solved and you immediately respond with some ideas.
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Nelson used a cellular phone to contact her rescuers, although the storm kept them from responding immediately .
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Bobo responded immediately by reaching out with a begging gesture, palm upwards and fingers slightly curled.
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Apparently, the flight attendant was too busy to respond immediately to the finger-snapping demands of the princess for more drinks.
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The tsar responded immediately to Valuev's call for the acceleration of the reform of the courts.
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Klusener set off to claim the winning run, and had Donald responded immediately victory would have been theirs.
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Barlaston responded immediately with Alan Hope's left-wing cross finding the back of the net before Hackney claimed the glory.
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Any animal that has been sprayed just once will respond immediately and back away fast from a displaying skunk.
positively
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If your customer is genuine he should respond positively to this fair approach.
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Occasionally, the state responds positively to these demands.
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The council had a responsibility to local businesses and should respond positively by allowing the change of use.
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Indeed, candidates may be reluctant to respond positively without knowing the purchaser's identity.
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The mark of a good organisation is that it responds positively when things get tough.
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Will the Minister respond positively and allow the board to do what it wishes?
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This prevents the skin from becoming too accustomed to the essences and failing to respond positively to them.
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However, although 70 percent of women expressed a desire for such facilities only 39 percent of men responded positively .
quickly
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Infolink's ability to respond quickly to the needs of a particular industry sector is demonstrated by a number of recent initiatives.
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When that happens and some one falls in a channel, the city and county fire department swift-water rescue teams must respond quickly .
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Trained to respond quickly to danger.
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Visalia had adopted a radically new budget system, which allowed managers to respond quickly as circumstances changed.
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Are you able to respond quickly ?
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Politically, this meant that individuals could gain immediate knowledge of events anywhere in the world and could respond quickly .
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When intruders appear, the chicks respond quickly to their parents' calls by crouching or running to shelter.
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First, they are far more flexible than centralized institutions; they can respond quickly to changing circumstances and customers' needs.
to
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What would some wily girl see in him that he would respond to ?
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Was there nothing this man did that she didn't like, didn't respond to ?
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Manufacturers and specialists are struggling to respond to constantly changing requirements, he said.
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As children, our cries for attention are acknowledged and responded to , ignored or dealt with by aggression.
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The ability of the school to enlist - and respond to - parental involvement, will be crucial.
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Things that light up and make sounds are easier to respond to.
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In the visual system of birds, colours and contrasting outlines are some of the features picked out and responded to strongly.
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Their horizons stretch even further as they seek to listen, respond to, and support, individual consumers world-wide.
well
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Some ragged wild Angels responded well to herbal treatment.
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About 30 % of these patients do not respond well initially or eventually break through drug treatment.
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She's relaxed and responding well to some half-completed treatment, unconcerned about her hair loss.
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And really, it seems to be responding well .
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When it responds well its power is immense.
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It is also used in patients not responding well to ergotamines or methysergide.
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They resent disturbance so do not respond well to division.
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But all other things being equal, the gay and lesbian community has responded well to examples of perceived corporate goodwill.
■ NOUN
ability
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Capacity and other resource constraints which may limit the target's ability to respond to increases in demand.
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The reader develops an ability to respond to the visual as well as the literary.
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To increase the number of errors can sometimes improve the ability to respond to a challenge.
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Infolink's ability to respond quickly to the needs of a particular industry sector is demonstrated by a number of recent initiatives.
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We are not just talking about information; we are talking about the ability to respond to the living language.
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The ability to respond in crisis is one of the skills which all teachers must possess.
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The ability to respond constructively to frequent re-organisations and a moving requirements target has become part of life.
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The depth to which an enquiry is classified can also affect a bureau's ability to respond to local problems.
body
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If our mind refuses to let our body respond , the feeling stays locked in and can affect all our physical processes.
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Vargas said the body would try to respond to concerns of legislators and officials over the content and timetable of some programs.
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The first thing which strikes one is the speed with which bodies are expected to respond or to change.
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Together they tell your body how to respond .
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And Shiona pressed herself against him, enthralled by the hard feel of him, her body responding to every little touch.
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And she had felt her body respond .
call
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Education the key Education responds to the call of the prevailing culture.
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All of my doubts you gently quelled, I responded to your call .
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Hammond responded to a call to remove a female bobcat from Tucson Raceway Park.
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Sadly, Smith was out 10 short of his century: run out, responding to an unrealistic call by Marshall.
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Neither Chung nor his lawyer responded to phone calls Friday seeking comment.
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No, they were Zionists, they were believers, they were responding to the call or answering a challenge.
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Wood, who lives in the Washington area, did not respond to calls seeking comment on the allegations.
challenge
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How should specialist services respond to this challenge ?
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I responded to the challenge of combat with the tactics of avoidance and flight.
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Small wonder that he seldom responds to the challenge .
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But they keep responding to the challenge .
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It can not respond to unfamiliar challenges or develop new opportunities.
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In June, a Parliamentary committee assembled to respond to its challenge .
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All over the world, natural selection had responded to the new challenge .
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A truly remarkable achievement and one that demonstrates the enthusiasm with which Johnson Matthey has responded to the challenge .
change
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Process control nets will need to respond to changes in the process.
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Another requirement to respond to unanticipated change is a short production cycle.
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What determines whether firms, households, or symphony orchestras respond to price changes ?
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How does aggregate demand respond to changes in interest rates?
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Bureaucratic organizations are slow to respond when conditions change , and housing authorities were no exception.
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They had to respond to changes in volume, changes in client, changes in climate.
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Therefore firms may respond to high-paced information change by constraining search process time.
demand
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His only major mistake lay in the way he responded to the demand for international films.
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Instead, they argue that gold is behaving more like a traditional commodity, responding to supply and demand forces.
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Moreover, system technology is capable of reducing the time needed to respond to changes in demand or to serve orders.
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Occasionally, the state responds positively to these demands .
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The Army Council faction has not yet responded to the demand .
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Economic growth favours some particular sector of industry, and technology responds to the demand .
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The food and drink industry is responding to the undoubted demand for low and no-alcohol drinks.
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The company that bottles the water says it's acting completely within the law and is simply responding to customer demand .
government
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The government responded to these incidents with considerable brutality, sentencing those involved to long prison terms.
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The government responded to militancy in the traditional ways.
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Here the government responds to market imperfections in proportions according with the extent of imperfection.
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The Government has delayed responding to the need to equalise pension rights because it means equalising State retirement ages.
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Slowly, government has begun to respond .
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This was slightly less than earlier forecasts to which the Government had responded by announcing a major prison-building programme.
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Successive governments encountered problems in responding to the changed conditions and in raising resources to meet public expectations.
need
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It is the Government's role to understand and to respond to the need for balance.
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Moreover, the number of Sisters had grown to almost 300, which enabled her to respond to this need .
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The staff are alert and responding to the needs of their guests and are dressed appropriately to support the scene.
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The idea of responding to a critical need for jobs by creating cooperatives should have promoted democratically owned and managed workshops.
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Exclusive business data Infolink is well placed to respond to this need .
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The market would respond to the needs of the customers.
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There are other signs that the club is stirring itself commercially as it responds to the needs of its growing membership.
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Equally, he wants to stress that the government should listen to industry and respond to its needs .
patient
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For each treatment, nourished and malnourished patients responded similarly.
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About 30 % of these patients do not respond well initially or eventually break through drug treatment.
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Our results show that relatively well nourished patients respond equally well to elemental diet as those with a poor nutritional state.
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However, a few patients do not respond to drug therapy.
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Whenever possible, patients who do not respond to antibiotics should be screened for resistant strains.
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Part of this controversy results from the fact that patients respond variably to phosphate administration.
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Those patients who did not respond to dilatation treatment were advised to have surgery.
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Some patients seem to respond to propranolol and / or tricyclic antidepressants.
pressure
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But it makes commercial sense for them to respond to pressure .
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The government responded to such pressure not with concessions or negotiations but with outright repression.
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Even when the judicial structure does strive to maintain some political independence, it still might respond to political pressure .
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In the Health Service, authoritarian corporatist administration is a way of responding to system pressures for restricted public expenditure.
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He was not responding to pressure on himself in making the move.
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Soares, as Commander-in-Chief, urged the government to respond to military pressure for changes in pay and professional career structures.
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He was simply responding to the twin pressures of dwindling tax revenues and pressing needs.
question
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Because of the market sensitivity of such a decision, ministers were refusing to respond to questions .
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I spent two hours responding to questions put to me by the Select Committee only a fortnight or so ago.
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Hayworth faxed a written statement before he left, but declined to respond to reporters' questions .
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But these public memories are rigid in organization and inflexible in description; they do not respond to questions , or contents.
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Yet these Cowboys respond quickly to the question of where San Francisco ranks on their list of concerns.
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A police report at the time said that Stubblefield refused to respond to questions and pushed an officer in the chest.
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In 1985, Steven Spielberg responded to an ordinary question with an extraordinary answer.
request
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The Wigan directors have yet to respond to his request .
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Key Republicans did not respond to requests for comment.
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The objective is to allow the system to respond flexibly to requests for, and information given by the human interlocutor.
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Staff members are expected to respond to any request within 24 hours.
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They needed to be able to respond to local requests for specific training from individual boards.
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The server tries to respond to the request in good faith as it assumes that all requests are legitimate.
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Smith did not respond to interview requests .
treatment
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Some ragged wild Angels responded well to herbal treatment .
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Sea World veterinarian Jim McBain said the calf is gaining strength and responding to treatment .
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He contracted a lung infection which did not respond to treatment .
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Cerebellar tremors do not respond well to drug treatment .
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But they weren't aware of a dressing-room drama as John Muldoon failed to respond to treatment for a hamstring injury.
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Fish which respond to herbal treatment are not doing so because they think they should get better.
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Paul Bodin is responding well to treatment and should be fit.
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Those patients who did not respond to dilatation treatment were advised to have surgery.
■ VERB
fail
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Joe failed to respond this time.
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Lawyers for Mentavlos and Messer failed to respond to numerous interview requests.
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Obviously, animals have no such sophistication and, just as babies, fail to respond to these placebos.
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There were scattered signals that something was wrong, investigators say, but the system failed to respond .
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The factories had previously been ordered to install pollution control equipment but had failed to respond .
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For the first time during the entire voyage, he failed to respond instantly to a request.
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But they weren't aware of a dressing-room drama as John Muldoon failed to respond to treatment for a hamstring injury.
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She, too, blamed herself for failing to respond to Niagara.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"I'd be there if I could," Bill responded.
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His father usually responds by telling him to be quiet.
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How do you respond to the allegation that you deliberately deceived your employers?
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Rob's smile was irresistible, and she responded with a grin.
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The children responded well to the day's activities.
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The demonstrators attacked and burned buildings and cars; the soldiers responded by opening fire.
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The meeting will give administrators a chance to respond to the community's questions and concerns.
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The more attention you pay him, the better he responds.
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The theatre has been slow to respond to the challenges presented by progressive drama.
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The waitress waited a moment and then responded.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Customised training and employment facilities to respond to all disabilities are essential.
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He could see that the baby responded and was actively seeking his attention.
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Museums are responding by offering family programs, workshops, classes and art talks by curators, scholars and artists.
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Neither Loral nor Lockheed responded to requests for comment.
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Repeat the viewing process after walking across the rug a few times, as this will show how it responds to use.
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The colors we responded to when we were children, we reportedly still respond to.
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This is not to suggest that most people will not respond to the reward of money.
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With anti-lock as standard, they respond smoothly and effectively to instruction and show no signs of fade during repeated hard stopping.