8 sentences with 'responded'
Example sentences and phrases with the word responded and other words derived from it.
• « The Greek expedition was crushed and the Athenians responded by moving the treasure of the League, previously held on the Greek island of Delos (hence the "League of Delia"), to Athens itself, arguing that the treasure was too vulnerable if it remained on Delos. »
• « Trajan responded personally to petitions and correspondence, instituted a programme of cheap loans to farmers and used the interest to pay for food for poor children, and worked closely and successfully with the Senate to maintain imperial stability and solvency. »
• « In 1095, Pope Urban II responded by giving a sermon in France summoning the knights of Europe to holy war to protect Christians in and near the Holy Land. »
• « The idea spread much faster and more thoroughly than Pope Urban could have hoped; knights from all over Europe responded when the news reached them. »
• « The idea was so appealing that not only knights but thousands of commoners responded, forming a "people's crusade" that marched towards Jerusalem, for the most part without weapons, armour or adequate supplies. »
• « Luther responded by posting a list of ninety-five attacks on indulgences on the door of Wittenberg Cathedral. These "95 Theses" are considered by historians to be the first official act of the Protestant Reformation. »
• « In 1784, a Prussian philosopher named Immanuel Kant published a short essay entitled What is the Enlightenment? It responded to nearly a century of philosophical, scientific and technical advances in Central and Western Europe that, he argued, had culminated in his own lifetime in a more enlightened and just age. »
• « Napoleon demanded that Denmark and Portugal comply with his continental system. Britain responded by bombarding Copenhagen and seizing the Danish fleet, an example that encouraged the Portuguese to defy Napoleon and protect their lucrative trade with Britain. »