Upon receiving the news, Northern writers, editors, and clergymen heaped accusations of murder on the Southern states, particularly Virginia.

Upon receiving an Alford guilty plea from a defendant, the court may immediately pronounce the defendant guilty and impose sentence as if the defendant had otherwise been convicted of the crime.

Upon receiving the evidence of al-Ala's defeat in al-Andalus, al-Mansur is said to have gasped, “ God be praised for placing a sea between us ”!

Upon receiving reports of the French army on the move, Edward decided a retreat was in order.

Upon receiving the request, the server sends back a status line, such as " HTTP / 1. 1 200 OK ", and a message of its own.

Upon receiving the invitation, Octa, Ebissa, and Cherdich, with three hundred ships full of soldiers immediately left for Britain.

Upon receiving the start in Game 5, Smith nearly duplicated his Game 1 performance with four putouts, one assist, and zero hits in four at-bats as part of another Cardinals defeat.

Upon receiving full control in 1713, the British soon moved the island's capital to the town of Basseterre in 1727, and St. Kitts quickly took off as a leader in sugar production in the Caribbean.

Upon learning of the weak education she was receiving, her father promptly had her placed in a group home school, where he taught Susan himself.

Upon receiving word of his death, his son Archie telegraphed his siblings simply, " The old lion is dead.

Upon successful linking, the receiving station generally emits an audible alarm and shows a visual alert to the operator, thus indicating the incoming call.

Upon receiving this go ahead signal, the originating end uses multi-frequency or other address signalling to send the phone number.

Upon release in May 1975 The Eiger Sanction was a commercial failure, receiving only $ 23. 8 million ( US $ in dollars ) at the box office, and was poorly received by most critics.

Upon receiving the award he gave a speech claiming, " It's one of the great honors I'll cherish in this lifetime.

Upon being notified of receiving this honor, Simon said, “ I am grateful to be the recipient of the Gershwin Prize and doubly honored to be the first.

Upon receiving the knighthood from the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 1 December 2005, he said he was " humbled " by the " fantastic tribute ".

Upon receiving his or her approval, the piece of work will be marked with Sent Up For Good and the student will receive a card to be signed by House Master, tutor and division master.

Upon becoming Emperor, Marcian repudiated the embarrassing payments of tribute to Attila the Hun ( 434 – 453 ), which the latter had been accustomed to receiving from Theodosius II in order to refrain from attacks on the Eastern Empire.

Upon receiving his PhD ( the title of his thesis was “ Pattern Perception and the Stabilised Retinal Image ”), he went to the Division of Computer Science, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, in 1964, where he remained until his death from cancer in 1979.

* Upon receiving word from Oricum of Philip V's actions in Illyria, Roman propraetor Marcus Valerius Laevinus crosses the Adriatic with his fleet and army.

Upon receiving the news, John and Gisbourne plot to dispose of Richard quietly before he can raise an army.

Upon becoming Pope, one of Hormisdas ' first actions was to remove the last vestiges of the schism in Rome, receiving back into the Church those adherents of the Laurentian party who had not already been reconciled.

Upon receiving the magazine and returning home, Mort finds that " Secret Window " has been removed.

* Upon receiving the head referee ’ s signal, the lifter must bend the knees and lower the body until the top surface of the legs at the hip joint is lower than the top of knees.

* Upon approaching the port, ships must display a quarantine flag, which has the letter ' Q ' on it, and wait for admittance into the port.

Upon hearing Abbott in a concert in Toledo, Kellogg made it a point to meet her and encourage her to pursue an opera career and gave her a letter of introduction.

Upon finding him, Muybridge said, " Good evening, Major, my name is Muybridge and here's the answer to the letter you sent my wife ", and shot him pointblank.

; At The Barricade ( Upon These Stones ): At the barricade, Marius has given Éponine a letter, which she delivers to Valjean, who promises to pass it to Cosette.

Upon learning of his death, Apicata committed suicide ( October 26 ) after addressing a letter to Tiberius claiming that Drusus had been poisoned with the complicity of Livilla.

Upon his return to France, it is said that Lafayette became involved in an affair with the comtesse Aglaé d ' Hunolstein, one that he broke off on 27 March 1783 by letter, at the insistence of her family.

Upon hearing that the woman had been interviewed, Hopkins wrote a letter to a contact asking whether he would be given a " good welcome ".

Upon returning home, Julie receives a letter that says " I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER!

Upon his release in 1952, Little joined the Nation of Islam and, in keeping with its naming convention, he changed his surname to the letter " X ", symbolizing the rejection of slave names.

Upon receiving a letter, he learns that his younger siblings have begun to receive the beatings in his place.

On his journey north, Henry Williams records in a letter to his wife Marianne “ I have secured a piece of land, I trust, from the paws of the New Zealand Company, for the natives ; another piece I hope I have upset .” Upon arriving in Whanganui Henry records “ After breakfast, held council with the chiefs respecting their land, as they were in considerable alarm lest the Europeans should take possession of the county.

Upon returning from one visit to learn that she had prematurely opened a letter instructing her what to do in the event of his death, he made a series of telephone calls to a Cebu City boarding house.

Upon payment of this fee the sender is given a receipt, and ( usually ) a unique numbered registration label is affixed to the letter.

Upon receiving and reading the letter of Zayd ibn Ali's death he broke down and cried uncontrollably, and proclaimed aloud:

Upon receipt of the letter from Massachusetts Governor Briggs announcing Hoar's appointment, South Carolina Governor James H. Hammond promptly placed it before the South Carolina legislature, which issued several resolves, declaring the right of South Carolina to exclude its borders all persons whose presence might be considered dangerous ; denying that free Negroes were citizens of the United States, and for the Massachusetts commissioner:

Upon his retirement, he received a congratulatory letter from President Clinton and a Distinguished Career Award from EPA Administrator Carol Browner.

# Upon receiving the invitation to participate, the recipient was asked whether he or she personally knew the contact person described in the letter.

Upon arrival in London, Italian poet in exile Ugo Foscolo gave him a letter of introduction to Liverpool banker William Roscoe and he moved to that city, where he made a meager living teaching Italian.

Upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75 in June 1998, Bevilacqua submitted his letter of resignation to John Paul II, who allowed the Cardinal to continue in his post.

The best example was shown at the very beginning of his governorship: Upon taking office, Osborn had the state's top officials turn in a signed, but undated, resignation letter.

" Upon receipt of the letter the resort shut down the lift in order to repair the over US $ 50, 000 in damages caused by the EMETIC.

Upon hearing this, Iphigenia decides that she wants one of the strangers to return a letter to Argos, and that she will only sacrifice one of them.

Upon receiving a cease-and-desist letter, the recipient may seek a tactical advantage by instituting declaratory-judgment litigation in a more favorable jurisdiction.

Upon his return to Spain in the spring of 1493, Columbus wrote a letter to Luis de Santangel, one of his patrons at the Spanish court.