semantics are very strong: they guarantee that the read and write operations to the variable behave exactly as if they happened instantaneously in some point in time which is within the actual time where the operation took place.

The divergence of carnivorans from other miacids, as well as the divergence of the two clades within Carnivora, Caniformia and Feliformia, is now inferred to have happened in the middle Eocene, about 42 million years ago ( mya ).

When the comet passed Jupiter in the late 1960s or early 1970s, it happened to be near its aphelion, and found itself slightly within Jupiter's Hill sphere.

Also, similar hunting-out happened with the megafauna of New Zealand, Madagascar and many smaller islands around the world ( such as New Caledonia, Cyprus, Crete and Wrangel Island ), and at least in part, in the Americas — probably within a thousand years or so.

This film has a story that happened long before which is narrated by one character in the framing scene, and initially accompanied by his narrating dialogue in intertitles, though after a while this stops, and the intertitles then convey the dialogue occurring within the flashback.

Thus, the events of previous stories are considered to have happened within a certain number of years prior to the publishing date of the current issue.

The earliest written records of the death and resurrection of Jesus are the letters of Paul, which were written around two decades after the death of Jesus, and show that within this time frame Christians believed that it had happened.

On 2 November 1939, the President dissolved the Sejm and the Senate, which were then, according to plan, to resume their activity within two months after the end of the Second World War ; this, however, never happened.

* Accused must be charged with a summary conviction within 6 months after the act happened.

In Judaism, the historical absence of political authority has meant that most theological reflection has happened within the context of the Jewish community and synagogue, rather than within specialized academic institutions.

Among the former communist countries only the Czech Republic has graduated within EBRD so far ( this happened in 2007 ) and gained the status of the only ex-communist country that is a shareholder within EBRD and not a borrower any more.

Legend, for its active and passive participants includes no happenings that are outside the realm of " possibility ", defined by a highly flexible set of parameters, which may include miracles that are perceived as actually having happened, within the specific tradition of indoctrination where the legend arises, and within which it may be transformed over time, in order to keep it fresh and vital, and realistic.

: Somehow it happened, but no one questions it: the secret base of the Morolians has been discovered within the Asteroid Belt.

The film The Exorcist was based on an exorcism that happened within the village of Bel-Nor in 1949.

His next 3 bouts were also outside New York, but he stayed within the confines of New England, as they happened, once again in Massachusetts, and in New Jersey.

The Expulsion of the Acadians from Hants County began at exactly the same time as it happened at Grand-Pré, with the Acadian men being imprisoned within the walls of Fort Edward.

Since the vast majority of petitions for certiorari are routinely denied without comment, it is normally unnecessary to indicate that fact in citations to decisions of lower federal courts, unless it happened within the last two years or was otherwise particularly relevant ( e. g., to support an inference that a particular appellant is a vexatious litigant ).

An interesting shift happened during the early to mid-90s that helped fortify the band ’ s credibility-the band was now being seen as influential within the blossoming alternative rock scene.

* In the Show Squidbillies, ( episode " Holodeck Redneck ") The Sheriff uses a holodeck to distract Early while he repossesses his truck-boat-truck-boat-truck-wave-runner, which in fact happened inside a holodeck within a therapist's office as a fantasy of The Sheriff's, which in turn took place inside a holodeck in the therapist's office as a part of one of Early's fantasies.

The passage is often regarded as presenting a significant chronological issue, as the surrounding context appears to constrain the events of the passage to happening within 22 years, and the context together with the passage itself requires the birth of the grandson of Judah and of his son's wife, and the birth of that son, to have happened within this time ( to be consistent, this requires an average of less than 8 years gap per generation ).

`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.

the passage and rhythm of time changed, and when I remember back to what happened then, each event is a separate and frozen incident.

He had been in the apartment two days and was hazy about what had happened during that time.

Remember what happened the last time ''??

Modern ballroom dance has its roots early in the 20th century, when several different things happened more or less at the same time.

As it happened, at the time of the siege in July 1789 there were only seven inmates, none of great political significance.

One historian, Charlotte Behr, thinks that the Historia's account of the arrival of the Germanic invaders in Kent should not be considered to relate what actually happened, but rather relates myths that were current in Kent during Bede's time.

If this suggestion is correct, the beginning of the world happened a little before the beginning of space and time.

After all that had happened, open shadowing, friends turning away, Pasternak ’ s suicidal condition at the time, one can ... understand her: the memory of Stalin ’ s camps was too fresh, she tried to protect him.

Although there is agreement on the time and general manner of his death, it is not clear where this happened.

The real increase happened in 1990, by which time the Cold War was almost over.

This is the only time that a switch of driver for the No Bull 5 has ever happened.

Two founding documents emerged from this: The Transition Constitution, and the Global and Inclusive Agreement, both of which describe and determine the make-up and organization of the Congolese institutions, until planned elections in July 2006, at which time the provisions of the new constitution, democratically approved by referendum in December 2005, will take full effect and that is how it happened.

In Laozi's Qingjing Jing ( verse 1-8 ) he clarified the term Tao was nominated as he was trying to describe a state of existence before it happened and before time or space.

The transition to behavioral modernity with the development of symbolic culture, language, and specialized lithic technology happened around 50, 000 years ago according to many although some suggest a gradual change in behavior over a longer time span.

Agatha Christie disappeared on 3 December 1926 only to reappear eleven days later in a hotel in Harrogate, apparently with no memory of the events which happened during that time span.

Shirley Ardell Mason also known as " Sybil " would disappear and then reappear with no recollection of what happened during the time span.

' A modern respondent might say they are both mammals ( an abstract, or a priori answer, which depends only on the meanings of the words ' dog ' and ' rabbit ' ), whereas someone a century ago might have said that humans catch rabbits with dogs ( a concrete, or a posteriori answer, which depended on what happened to be the case at that time ).

In Norway, the historian Edvard Bull famously proclaimed that " we have to give up all illusions that Snorri's mighty epic bears any deeper resemblance to what actually happened " in the time it describes.

Each day he rode back and forth from farm to school, taking more interest in what happened along the way than in reaching his classes on time ".

The two chatted for a bit, the Pharaoh even inquiring of Israel ’ s age which happened to be 130 years old at that time.

" At this time, one of those disciples happened to be the current English ambassador, though his initiation into Jahangir's inner circle of disciples was devoid of religious significance for Roe, as he did not understand the full extent of what he was doing: Jahangir hung " a picture of him self set in gold hanging at a wire gold chain ” round Roe's neck.