react against something

react | American Dictionary

react
verb[ I ]
us/riˈækt/
to act in a particular way as a direct result of something else:
How do you think she’ll react when she hears the news?
The State Department reacted favorably to the proposal.
chemistry
If substances react, they change when brought together.

react | Business English

react
verb[ I ]
uk /riˈækt/us
if prices or markets react, their levels rise or fall as a direct result of something that happens:
react to sthHow did bank share prices react to last year's financial results?
react badly/favourably/positivelyThe market reacted positively to last week's news of the £53.7m bid.
react with sthThe shares reacted with a 22p fall to 684p.
to behave in a particular way as a direct result of something else:
react calmly/cautiously
react quickly/strongly
react to sthThe union reacted angrily to the threat of job losses.
react by doing sthChina has reacted to reports of unsafe products by cracking down on its own manufacturers.

Examples of react

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A comparative analysis of current literature in fact suggests that men reacted to the danger and disempowerment of modern combat in remarkably similar ways.
Whitehead uses the concept of the masculine subject to capture the fact that a man perceives and reacts to a set of cultural discourses.
The evolution of catalysts had to be in parallel with the evolution of the molecular species reacting.
Chapter 5 deals with teachers evaluating the performance of their pupils and reacting to the assessment of examiners, adjudicators, critics and agents.
A sodium reagent is used and the chloride ions are reacted with mercury and diphenylcarbazone to form a purple colour.
When the specialized bureaucrats, politicians, and interest groups reacted and tried to fight back against these proposals, they naturally attracted press attention.
Figures 5 and 6 show how steel prices reacted to a switch in government in a majoritarian system.
She defines relaxation as: that condition in which we have the greatest capacity of reacting.
The mapping module is made up of an extensible set of functions which reacts to the detected features by generating an appropriate output.
Subjects with high symptom levels reacted faster and performed more false positive responses than subjects with low symptom levels.
His body reacts to the imprisonment of his soul.
Nonetheless, those women who did understand the language could and should have reacted at their own discretion.
A detailed understanding of the linear stability characteristics of compressible reacting mixing layers will be of aid in mixing enhancement.
609 plagioclase, which reacted with neighbouring garnet and omphacite during a period of ductile shearing.
Adroitly reacting to the newfound opportunity, conservative intellectuals penned their writings accordingly.
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