On all sides doors were being slammed in his face.

On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.

On the other hand, the null space of Af and the null space of Af together span V, the former being the subspace spanned by Af and the latter the subspace spanned by Af and Af.

) On the other hand, even when the binomial model does not describe well the physical phenomenon being studied, the binomial model may still be used as a baseline for comparative purposes ; ;

On being criticized for his arbitrary behavior -- he answered: `` I have to make decisions.

On the contrary, the old plays are continually being reinterpreted, and each new production of a classic has only a brief history at the Comedie.

On some early versions of the game, it was also possible to hide the ship in the score area indefinitely without being hit by asteroids.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.

On January 2 366 the Alemanni yet again crossed the frozen Rhine in large numbers, to invade the Gallic provinces, this time being defeated by Valentinian ( see Battle of Solicinium ).

On being ransomed he went to Constantinople, where was held the court of his cousin, the Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, with whom he was a great favourite.

On Monday, 8 May 1972, ground service equipment being used to empty the residual toxic reaction control system fuel in the command module tanks exploded in a Naval Air Station hangar.

On the software front, work was being done to implement the replacement for the aging " user interface " of CP / M, ( the Command Console Processor CCP ) with the more modern ZCPR.

On a more abstract level, model theoretic arguments hold that a given set of symbols in a theory can be mapped onto any number of sets of real-world objects — each set being a " model " of the theory — providing the interrelationships between the objects are the same.

On his return to Nuremberg in 1495, Dürer opened his own workshop ( being married was a requirement for this ).

Lead Me On ( 1988 ) contained many songs that were about Christianity and love relationships, but some interpreted it as not being an obviously " Christian " record.

On April 6, 2006, in a case arising from a game involving community college baseball teams, the Supreme Court of California ruled that baseball players in California assume the risk of being hit by baseballs even if the balls were intentionally thrown so as to cause injury.

The newspaper continued, " On the bone being shown to an intelligent black ( sic ), he at once recognised it as belonging to the bunyip, which he declared he had seen.

On being requested to make a drawing of it, he did so without hesitation.

On this anchorage, being the best sheltered within the maritime region of Sweden ( Suevoniae ), all the ships belonging to Danes ( Danorum ) known as Norwegians ( Nortmannorum ) as well as to Slavs ( Sclavorum ), Sembrians ( Semborum ) and other Scythian ( Scithiae ) peoples use to convene every year for sundry necessary commerce.

On 17 July 2003, Kelly, an employee of the Ministry of Defence, apparently committed suicide after being misquoted by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan as saying that Tony Blair's Labour government had knowingly " sexed up " the " September Dossier ", a report into Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.

Plutarch criticised Herodotus in his essay " On The Malignity of Herodotus ", describing Herodotus as " Philobarbaros " ( barbarian-lover ), for not being pro-Greek enough, which suggests that Herodotus might actually have done a reasonable job of being even-handed.

On Elizabeth's death in 1603, the 1559 book, substantially that of 1552 which had been regarded as offensive by the likes of Bishop Stephen Gardiner as being a break with the tradition of the Western church, had come to be regarded in some quarters as unduly Catholic.

On human nature, Boethius says that humans are essentially good and only when they give in to “ wickedness ” do they “ sink to the level of being an animal .” On justice, he says criminals are not to be abused, rather treated with sympathy and respect, using the analogy of doctor and patient to illustrate the ideal relationship between prosecutor and criminal.

On the glass partition between me and the driver were three signs: one asked for help for the blind, another help for orphans, and the third for relief for the war refugees.

Torrid Freight ( Torrid-Breeze On Hal ) is a very rugged, strong-made colt with a wonderful stride who has done with ease everything asked of him.

On this issue, the President received a detailed report from his U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, who had just returned from Paris, and Mr. Kennedy asked Stevenson to search for a face-saving way -- for both Paris and Tunis -- out of the imbroglio.

On the other hand, when science fiction author Philip K. Dick was asked which science fiction writers had influenced his work the most, he replied:

On noticing a house in Asia roofed with square beams, he asked the owner whether timber grew square in that area.

On the flight home from Mexico, he asked Ramsey not to consider him again.

On March 30, 2006, as a response to the controversy of the use of performance-enhancing drugs and the anticipated career home run record to be set by Barry Bonds, Selig asked former senator George Mitchell to lead an independent investigation into the use of steroids in baseball's recent past.

On adjourning, the Council asked the supreme pontiff to ratify all its decrees and definitions.

Former Split Enz keyboardist Eddie Rayner produced the track " Can't Carry On " and was asked to join the band.

On 11 December 1695, Bellomont, who was now governing New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, asked the " trusty and well beloved Captain Kidd " to attack Thomas Tew, John Ireland, Thomas Wake, William Maze, and all others who associated themselves with pirates, along with any enemy French ships.

On his last day, Domitian was feeling disturbed and asked a servant several times what time it was.

On July 11, the appeals court asked the DOJ to inform the court if it intended to proceed with its appeal.

On May 4, 2008, while Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen addressed the graduating cadets at West Point, a cadet asked what would happen if the next administration were supportive of legislation allowing gays to serve openly.

On November 20, 1955, Bo Diddley was asked by Sullivan to sing Tennessee Ernie Ford's hit " Sixteen Tons ".

On May 5, 1777, General George Washington asked Boudinot to be appointed as commissary general for prisoners.

On 28 July Leicester, who was in overall command of the English land troops, asked for instructions regarding Oxford, stating that " he seems most willing to hazard his life in this quarrel ".

On being asked why, he said, " You are noticed more if you stand on your head than if you are right way up.

On admission he was asked for his birthplace.

On the Hesychast side, the controversy was taken up by St Gregory Palamas, afterwards Archbishop of Thessalonica, who was asked by his fellow monks on Mt Athos to defend hesychasm from the attacks of Barlaam.

On one occasion, a hotel manager called Moon in his room and asked him to lower the volume on his cassette music player ; the manager said The Who were making " too much noise.

On June 13, 2012, National Basketball Association ( NBA ) commissioner David Stern asked radio personality Jim Rome the loaded question, " Have you stopped beating your wife yet?

On 12 August 1921, the League was asked to settle the matter ; the Council created a commission with representatives from Belgium, Brazil, China and Spain to study the situation.

On March 24, 2006, Curt Kirkwood polled fans at his MySpace page with a bulletin that asked: " Question for all!

On May 2, 2008 Ağca asked to be awarded Polish citizenship as he wished to spend the final years of his life in Poland, Pope John Paul II's country of origin.