This is a catchall term that means three different things: an economic housing boom and bust, a financial meltdown, and a political response in which bailouts were showered upon the very institutions that were responsible for the chaos.
Merkel gave a guarded response in which she was careful not to reject Cameron's demands out of hand.
Potten hypothesised that it was an altruistic response in which the cells died, rather than expose the organism to the cancer risk of incompletely repaired genetic damage.
He might have rebid one no-trump after the negative one-diamond response, in which case his partner would probably have continued.
Kolbe seemed swept away but managed a response in which he bemoaned the rise of extreme partisanship in Congress and the decline of the art of compromise.
He ran a series of spots in response, in which he stared into the camera and talked about how Mr. McCain's accusations had gone over the line.
But after Fifa indicated in a statement that it was not open to negotiation, the FA issued its own response in which it clarified its position.
The company was forced to take out a series of national newspaper advertisements in response, in which it apologised to customers.
It has been suggested that overstimulation of the stress response, in which psychological stressors produce physical changes in the body, can lead to psychosomatic illness.
In simple organisms, such as algae, protozoans, and fungi, a response in which the organism moves toward or away from the stimulus is called taxis.
These stimuli elicit an orientation response, in which the spider faces the source and reaches out with the two front legs.
