When the Confederate attempt to defend Petersburg failed, the Confederate army retreated but was pursued and defeated, which resulted in Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

When Mankind was given the prize of Eden, Absalom led his armies against Heaven and Hell in an attempt to steal it back.

When he was staying in Nicaea, his cousins, who had been living there, made an unsuccessful attempt to take his life.

When Kerbogha was defeated, Adhemar organized a council in an attempt to settle the leadership disputes, but he died on 1 August 1098, probably of typhus.

When AI researchers attempt to " scale up " their systems to handle more complicated, real world situations, the programs tend to become excessively brittle without commonsense knowledge or a rudimentary understanding of the situation: they fail as unexpected circumstances outside of its original problem context begin to appear.

When this was rebuffed he made an attempt to cross back to Italy to collect his missing troops but was turned back by a storm.

When an English soldier tries to rape Murron, Wallace fights off several soldiers and the two attempt to flee.

When Heracles had pulled Theseus first from his chair, some of his thigh stuck to it ( this explains the supposedly lean thighs of Athenians ), but the earth shook at the attempt to liberate Pirithous, whose desire to have the wife of a god for himself was so insulting he was doomed to stay behind.

When Gail refused to go along with the plan, Joe sailed away and in the attempt, drowned for real, leaving Gail to be charged with his murder.

" She summed up her driving work ethic, " I can say this: When I attempt anything, I have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle … And I do my own work with a refusal to accept defeat that might almost be called painful.

When in an aggressive mode, a chimp will swagger bipedally, hunched over and arms waving, in an attempt to exaggerate its size.

* The preface of Concrete Mathematics includes the following anecdote: " When Knuth taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft.

When an attempt is made to modify ( update, insert into, or delete from ) a table, undesired side-effects may follow.

When elections are called, politicians and their supporters attempt to influence policy by competing directly for the votes of constituents in what are called campaigns.

When Plissken reluctantly agrees to attempt the rescue, Hauk has him injected with microscopic explosives that will rupture his carotid arteries in 24 hours.

When used in an attempt to be offensive, the word is still considered vulgar, but it remains a mild example of such an insult.

When unskilled fighters get embroiled in combat, a common reaction is to grab the opponent in an attempt to slow the situation down by holding them still, resulting in an unsystematic struggle that relies on brute force.

When Constantine converted to Christianity the majority of his subjects were still pagans and the Roman Imperial cult of the divinity of the emperor, expressed through the traditional burning of candles and the offering of incense to the emperor ’ s image, was tolerated for a period because it would have been politically dangerous to attempt to suppress it.

When Madison decided to run for election to the house instead, Henry gerrymandered Madison ’ s home district, filling it with anti-federalists in an attempt to prevent Madison's election.

When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line.

" When the flags over the many peat-constructed towers were raised, farmers would go to others ' towers and attempt to " level them to the ground.

When the Justice Society's forced attempt to stop them by sending Hawkman and Captain Marvel against them met with failure and resulted in Superman and Batman briefly infiltrating the White House, Luthor, in an enraged and desperate gambit after Superman's rapid defeats of his plans, used a variant combination of the " super-steroid " Venom ( a chemical associated with the Batman villain Bane ), liquid synthetic Kryptonite, and an Apokoliptian battlesuit to fight Superman directly.

When slavery was abolished on 1 February 1835, an attempt was made to secure a cheap source of adaptable labour for intensive sugar plantations in Mauritius.

When he remarries, the young Culhwch rejects his stepmother's attempt to pair him with his new stepsister.

When he hastily returned home, the brief attempt at political liberalization in North Korea was ended.

When Senator Pressler was told Walter Cronkite referred to him on the evening news as a " hero " he stated, " I do not consider myself a hero ... what have we come to if turning down a bribe is ' heroic '?

When the owner, quite understandably, could not produce the slave ( which he didn't own ), Verres would throw him in prison until a bribe could be paid for the landowner's release.

When several Giants were implicated in a plan to bribe players on the moribund Phillies late in the season, Johnson demanded that the Series be canceled, and loudly criticized Landis ' handling of the affair.

When Crosby appeals to Alan to help him, Alan produces a doctored tape of Crosby on the phone with Kinnock accepting a £ 1, 000 bribe for the documents.

When Jack Gordon, LaToya Jackson's future agent and husband, offered Reid a $ 12, 000 bribe to approve new games for casinos, Reid brought in the FBI to tape Gordon's bribery attempt and arrest him.

When Floyd Landis confessed to using performance enhancing drugs throughout his career in May 2010, he alleged that the UCI had accepted a bribe from Lance Armstrong to cover up an EPO positive after the 2001 Tour de Suisse.

When Mack sought $ 1, 000, 000 to bribe Mary Robeson to stop seeking custody of Meg, Claudia gave him $ 500, 000 and gave the rest to Nick to start a restaurant.

When he did bribe the driver, Mariano used none of his own money.

When he could not find anyone to bribe, he just invented nonexistent people.

When Scooby is too afraid to volunteer to help with a mission, Velma often offers him a dog treat called a " Scooby Snack " as a bribe.

When, owing to cases of disloyalty towards the Porte by the Princes, the choice became limited to a few families, it became frequent that rulers would be shifted from one principality to the other: the Prince of Wallachia, the richer of the two Principalities, would pay certain sums in order to avert his transfer to Iaşi, while the Prince of Moldavia would bribe supporters in Constantinople in exchange for his appointment to Wallachia.

When the lieutenant discovers the unauthorized passengers, he lets them remain aboard and even makes Gavrilkin return the bribe.

When Micheal refuses the bribe, he orders his goon Gopal Singh to take control.

When the Sapian League starts abducting mutants and infecting them with modified versions of the Legacy virus, turning them into living bombs, Vanisher tries to bribe Josh into removing the tumor he placed in his head but fails.

When he accidentally discovers that the high-ranking officer in charge of the meager food rations has been siphoning off part of it, he rejects a bribe and zealously takes the matter to Colonel George Smedley-Taylor ( John Mills ).

When Mr. Mister arrives at night court to release the Liberty Committee, he offers Foreman a place on the Committee and a hefty bribe if he will give up his union activities.

When a man named Wang Mi visited Yang Zhen at night and attempted to bribe him 10 catties of gold, Yang rejected the gift.

When they detect an instance of evasion, they refrain from reporting in return for illegal gratification or bribe.

When it comes to the night of the murder, Max and Paddy find they can't bring themselves to kill the man and instead bribe him with £ 3000 in cash to leave the country, Max gives Paddy £ 1000, and spends the remaining £ 4000 on a motor home.

When the bribe was returned, Muggleton knew for certain he was in serious trouble.

When the guards report this to the chief priests, the priests bribe the guards to lie about the events:

When Obi indignantly rejects the offer, he is visited by the girl herself who implies that she will bribe him with sexual favors for the scholarship, another offer Obi rejects.