intended to forestall any more immediate response.

required an immediate response from the European Union.

We intended to start a dialogue. We have been surprised by a lack of administration response.

Hurricane Katrina was the most significant test of our new national emergency preparedness and response system since 9/11 and it obviously did not pass the test,

Hurricane Katrina was in one sense the most significant test of the new national emergency preparedness and response system that was created after 9-11, and it obviously did not pass that test,

Hurricane Katrina was in one sense the most significant test of the new national emergency-preparedness and -response system that was created after 9/11, and it obviously did not pass that test,