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