The phrase "a graduated response" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a series of actions or measures are taken in increasing intensity or severity, often in response to a situation or behavior.
Example: "The school implemented a graduated response to bullying, starting with warnings and escalating to suspension for repeat offenders."
Alternatives: "a tiered approach" or "a phased response".
But one provider in Ireland, Eircom, recently started instituting its own version of a graduated response system.
It also suggests a "graduated response protocol" that would show schools how to resolve nonserious misbehavior themselves, reserving the court system for the most egregious cases.
Along with Mr. Bush's commitment last week to seek Congressional assent for any American military action in Iraq, his address yesterday offers the prospect of a graduated response to the threats presented by Saddam Hussein rather than the pell-mell rush to armed conflict that Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld have been floating.
The new procedure, which is expected to go into effect early next year, is known as a graduated response, and establishes a series of six warnings that an Internet service provider, or I.S.P., can send a customer whose account shows signs of infringing activity.
The BPI believes that a graduated response system – whereby infringing subscribers are given an escalated notifications, warnings and deterrent measures – is a fair and proportionate way to effect a change in behaviour.
The police officer may quickly elevate the response to lethal force even though the use-of-force model they are trained on claims to provide for a graduated response and the option to dial down.
Further studies are required to determine if the protein(s) coded by gene(s) at this position exert(s) a unique graduated response or a pleiotropic effect on meat color.
France has also implemented a so-called graduated response system.
In particular, a new approach called "graduated response" is gaining momentum.
"This is a further part of our graduated response strategy, and follows on from our withdrawal from the leaders talks, ending contact with the so-called Parades Commission and the steps outlined by the Orange Institution," he said.
"This is a further part of our graduated response strategy, and follows on from our withdrawal from the leaders talks, ending contact with the so-called Parades Commission and the steps outlined by the Orange Institution.
