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Observe his facial reaction when we mention a price.
What was his reaction to this news?
It started a chain reaction.
What was Tom's reaction?
Did you see Mary's reaction when she saw the spider?
Tom had an allergic reaction to the medication.
What was her reaction?
Tom couldn't tell from Mary's reaction how she felt about what he had said to her.
Tom's reaction was the opposite of what Mary had expected.
Her reaction didn't surprise me.
Tom had a similar reaction.
Tom braced himself for Mary's reaction.
Tom had an allergic reaction.
What was her reaction to the news?
It's completely impossible to foretell his reaction.
For what you have written, your reaction is not justified in any manner, and I imagine it can make your life impossible.
Tom was unable to hide his reaction.
You should've heard the family's reaction when I told them the good news.
I wonder what Tom's reaction will be.
What was his reaction?
Movie subtitles
Massive ARDS reaction to smoke inhalation.
Do you think he might have been afraid of your reaction?
Mr. Lane, you're having an adverse reaction to the alcohol you've ingested.
The bag has just been found, and the reaction of relief from her excitement and strain.
That's what I want, the personal reaction story.
Well, I wouldn't be at all surprised. That's the usual reaction.
I was amazed at his violent reaction until the evidence came to me that he owned those very 200 acres.
Don't get too conventional all at once, will you? There'll be a reaction.
I can predict his every reaction.
So, you know every reaction of mine?
I want to thank you for your splendid reaction to my call.
It's a perfectly normal reaction.
All right, then let me give you my reaction.
No! I understand your reaction my dear Avenel.
Eddie, you had too much to drink. Mr. Lane, you're having an adverse reaction to the alcohol you've ingested.
But there may be quite an interesting reaction.
The bag has just been found, and the reaction of relief from her excitement and strain. - is just a little too much for her.
A high heady reaction, a strange exhilaration.
I was observing the reaction on the common housefly of the chromatic scale.
What was the first reaction you saw on Horn after the discovery of the murder?
You seem very sure of my reaction. Oh.
There'll be a reaction.
I can predict his every reaction. I could tell you word for word exactly what he'd say.
So, you know every reaction of mine? You know me inside out?
A highly sensible reaction.
You would be watching yourself die scientifically noting every reaction and in full possession of your faculties.
As she starts to faint, I'll imply that she's having an abnormal reaction, okay?
REACTION. Sam.
YOU'RE HAVING AN ADVERSE REACTION TO THE NEOCORTICAL STIMULATION. I WHAT?
Oh, they come and go, but the reaction is always the same.
It was a normal human reaction.
Come on, Mrs. Bailey, I can't wait to see everybody's reaction.
News and current affairs
The confused reaction to this verdict should, perhaps, give pause to all those who think that putting the past on trial is a straightforward thing.
More interesting, and in a way far more disturbing, has been the reaction in the US to the Boston bombings, which killed three people and injured 264.
The second important miscalculation concerned the likely global reaction to America's exercise of its hegemonic power.
Next, no government in the region loves Saddam, but all fear popular reaction to a third Western onslaught on an Islamic state, this time with much less clear justification than over Kuwait and in Afghanistan.
Take this example: if you return to the scene of a recent accident, you are likely to have a physical reaction that reflects activation of memories stored in the amygdala.
As we know from other contexts, adjustment to newcomers is not easy: compare, say, the reaction to the tie-up between France's Alcatel and America's Lucent to the bids by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation for Chevron or Mittal for Acelor.
Another type of defensive reaction - this time to outward FDI - may well arise once the offshoring of services gathers more speed.
A speculative bubble, sustaining itself solely by reaction to price increases, cannot go on forever.
At the same time, an anti-clerical, secular movement on behalf of constitutionalism appeared in Iran - a reaction to the absolutist alliance between the Quajar Shahs and the religious establishment.
This may be a reaction to the American-led war in Iraq; but Tony Blair will exclude it precisely for that reason, and a common European defense policy without Britain makes little sense.
Nevertheless, the limited reaction to the SNB move is somewhat surprising.
In 1952, Alan Turing--best known for his work on computation and the mind--proposed a mathematical model consisting of a pair of equations describing the reaction and diffusion of two imaginary chemicals.
On this score, Turing's reaction-diffusion model has been greatly disappointing.
What made me feel a little sorry for Bush was the reaction to his announcement.
If real estate prices were to fall dramatically, a chain reaction could occur, taking down big and small investors alike, and over time causing wide suffering to ordinary Africans.
Beyond his message's wishful thinking, the public's reaction to the messenger was a mixture of disbelief and indifference.
Public reaction to both was mixed.
In October 1993, the killing by members of the army of Melchior Ndadaye, the first civilian, Hutu, non-Bururi, and democratically elected president provoked a bloody reaction by the Hutu.
Yet the euphoric reaction seen in some quarters is misplaced.
The dollar's strength reflects the knee-jerk reaction of investors rushing into US treasuries as a safe haven.
Our default reaction, often reinforced by Western philosophical traditions and simplistic political rhetoric, is that evil acts must be the product of fundamentally evil or insane individuals.
Estrada remains adored by the masses, but so far the public's reaction to the verdict has been nonviolent and almost subdued.
The government's reaction was to blame the problem on outside instigation.
In addition, the formation of a China-Japan-South Korea FTA would most likely trigger a chain-reaction.
This is the first time that a sitting head of state has been indicted for war crimes, with reaction around the world mainly divided between those who hailed the move as a great step for international justice and those who condemned it as colonialism.