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* When Leonidas was in charge of guarding the narrow mountain pass at Thermopylae with just 7, 000 Greek men in order to delay the invading Persian army, Xerxes offered to spare his men if they gave up their arms.
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When the two met at Bragg's headquarters in the evening, Bragg placed Longstreet in command of the Left Wing of his army ; Lt. Gen. Leonidas Polk commanded the Right.
Plutarch has recorded the following: " When someone said to him: ' Except for being king you are not at all superior to us ,' Leonidas son of Anaxandridas and brother of Cleomenes replied: ' But were I not better than you, I should not be king.
When Hermogenes is recognized by the usurper-king Polydamas, he declares that Leonidas is Polydamas's son.
* When he was asked why he had come to fight such a huge host with so few men, Leonidas answered, " If numbers are what matters, all Greece cannot match a small part of that army ; but if courage is what counts, this number is sufficient.
When and was
When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.
When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.
When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.
When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.
When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.
When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.
`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.
When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.
`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.
When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.
When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.
When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.
When he was eight he began violin lessons.
When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.
When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.
When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.
When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.
When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.
When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.
When and charge
When Giffen decided to charge him interest on the loan from John Palfrey, Gorham readily assented, vowing that in a matter of dollars and cents, his brothers would never have any cause to complain of him.
When my father, who had been appointed by his country as public notary in the customs at Bugia acting for the Pisan merchants going there, was in charge, he summoned me to him while I was still a child, and having an eye to usefulness and future convenience, desired me to stay there and receive instruction in the school of accounting.
When an object falls into a black hole, any information about the shape of the object or distribution of charge on it is evenly distributed along the horizon of the black hole, and is lost to outside observers.
When this rule is broken, giving the " molecule " a charge, the result is sometimes named a molecular ion or a polyatomic ion.
When Sholes took over pop production in 1957 — a result of his success with Elvis Presley — he put Atkins in charge of RCA Victor's Nashville division.
When EM radiation at the frequences for which it is referred to as " radio waves " impinges upon a conductor, it couples to the conductor, travels along it, and induces an electric current on the surface of the conductor by moving the electrons of the conducting material in correlated bunches of charge.
When the net electric charge of an object is non-zero and motionless, the phenomenon is known as static electricity.
When certain EEG seizure criteria are met, the device delivers a small electrical charge to other electrodes near the epileptic focus, which disrupt the seizure.
When the group of covalently bound atoms bears a net charge, the group is referred to more properly as a polyatomic ion or a complex ion.
When only six survivors remained, out of ammunition, a bayonet charge was conducted in which three of the six were killed.
When using volume to meter each charge, it is important to regularly check the charge weight on a scale throughout the process.
When in charge of government, both CDU and SPD have tended to favor improved relations with Central and Eastern Europe, even when this conflicts with the interests of the displaced people.
When a current-carrying semiconductor is kept in a magnetic field, the charge carriers of the semiconductor experience a force in a direction perpendicular to both the magnetic field and the current.
When Chilean troops occupied Lima during the War of the Pacific in 1881, they put in charge certain Patricio Lynch, whose grandfather came from Ireland to Argentina and then moved to Chile.
When implanted in a semiconductor, each dopant atom can create a charge carrier in the semiconductor after annealing.
When suitable prey arrives near a dragon's ambush site, it will suddenly charge at the animal and go for the underside or the throat.
When Guericke held his hand against the ball and turned the shaft quickly, a static electric charge built up.
When Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Germany in 1919, Feininger was his first faculty appointment, and became the master artist in charge of the printmaking workshop.
When the altimeters sensed the correct height, the firing switch closed, igniting the three BuOrd Mk15, Mod 1 Navy gun primers in the breech plug, which set off the charge consisting of four silk powder bags each containing two pounds of WM slotted-tube cordite.
When the planes of an ionic bond slide past one another, the resultant change in location shifts ions of the same charge into close proximity, resulting in the cleavage of the crystal ; such shift is not observed in covalently bonded crystals where fracture and crystal fragmentation occurs.
When harassed or startled by people or in the presence of a dog, moose may charge.
When they encounter an infection site the particles gain a positive charge provoked by the slightly acidic environment at the infection sites, allowing them to bind to the negatively charged bacterial cell walls and release antibiotics at locally high concentration.
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When the case is weak, the parties must rely on charge bargaining ...
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