From 1967 however, under 'flexible response,' the aim became to build up conventional forces so that, if possible, nuclear weapons might not be needed.

The new program approach is expected to allow flexible responses to changing circumstances.

Rigid planning means that unforeseen opportunities are lost and flexible response is built out of the system.

Maybe if you'd backed down before the first shots were fired last week, you could have allowed yourself a more flexible response.

This kind of structure may allow more flexible responses to environmental change, and so speed up evolution.

We need an imaginative and flexible response in a situation where there are few automatic markets left for British produce.

The short-range nuclear weapons were "absolutely vital to a flexible response," she said.

On the other hand in the early and mid-1960s the Americans remained determined to push ahead with the newly formulated strategy of flexible response.

That is obviously a very complex situation but, nevertheless, one which requires a flexible response.

I also argued for a new Community initiative designed to provide a flexible response to unexpected serious economic crises.