react against something

Examples of reacted

reacted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The indigenous heritage industry reacted to the repeated local resistance by withdrawing their commitment to the development of the site.
It reacted just as promptly as its former enemies to the need to re-evaluate its doctrine in the light of the battles of 1914-18.
A sodium reagent is used and the chloride ions are reacted with mercury and diphenylcarbazone to form a purple colour.
The issue was not why these miseries were visited on them, but how they reacted to them, how they rose to the occasion.
The dreamer usually reacted to the attack by running, escaping, or hiding (unless she woke up).
Scholars have examined the brinkmanship between intellectuals and the regime: how intellectuals reacted to the regime's propaganda and the regime dealt with the intellectuals' reaction.
When the specialized bureaucrats, politicians, and interest groups reacted and tried to fight back against these proposals, they naturally attracted press attention.
A comparative analysis of current literature in fact suggests that men reacted to the danger and disempowerment of modern combat in remarkably similar ways.
It reacted by assuring the authorities that it would abide by all orders and by asserting its readiness to co-operate.
It is difficult to determine how the letter-writers reacted to this combination of mass politics, policy, and propaganda in the 1952-1955 period.
Figures 5 and 6 show how steel prices reacted to a switch in government in a majoritarian system.
Yet even if they had, it is unlikely that they would have reacted differently.
Subjects with high symptom levels reacted faster and performed more false positive responses than subjects with low symptom levels.
Nonetheless, those women who did understand the language could and should have reacted at their own discretion.
Adjacent series of sections were stained with cresyl violet or reacted for acetylcholinesterase histochemistry for the identification of cytoarchitectonic bounderies.
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