When it became apparent that Maathai was going to win the election, Maendeleo Ya Wanawake, a member organization which represented a majority of Kenya's rural women and whose leader was close to arap Moi, withdrew from the NCWK.

When Amyntas sought Spartan aid against the growing threat of Olynthus, the Spartans eagerly responded.

When a group of different plant species was prompted by a variety of different stress signals, such as drought or cold, each plant responded uniquely.

When asked later why he had stopped writing about Greek poetry, he responded, " I found that I could not attain to excellence in both.

When they replied that they were " marvellous ", Bonaparte responded that it was just as well, since he would have them shot if they continued " fostering mutinies and preaching revolt.

When Albania responded by making agreements with the Soviet Union to purchase a supply of agricultural machinery, Yugoslavia said that Albania could not enter into any agreements with other countries without Yugoslav approval.

" When Groucho himself was on his deathbed, and a nurse came around with a thermometer, explaining that she wanted to see if he had a temperature, he responded, " Don't be silly — everybody has a temperature.

When his will was enforced, Rome responded by violently seizing the tribe's lands in full.

When asked by columnist Earl Wilson what the purpose of the group was, Bacall responded " to drink a lot of bourbon and stay up late.

When asked by conductor Karl Reinthaler to add additional sectarian text to his German Requiem, Brahms responded, " As far as the text is concerned, I confess that I would gladly omit even the word German and instead use Human ; also with my best knowledge and will I would dispense with passages like John 3: 16.

When, in 1967, after his death at the age of 91, Germans were asked what they admired most about Adenauer, the majority responded that he had brought home the last German prisoners of war from the USSR, which had become known as the " Return of the 10, 000 ".

When asked about her interest in politics, she responded, " It doesn't drive me.

When, during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, the League accused Italian soldiers of targeting Red Cross medical tents, Benito Mussolini responded that " the League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

When asked in 1949 whether he would outlaw the Communist Party in Canada, St-Laurent responded that the party posed little threat and that such measures would be drastic.

When Portugal conquered Malacca in 1511 and committed atrocities against the Malay Sultanate, the Chinese responded with violent force against Portugal.

When León became the first city in Nicaragua to fall to the Sandinistas, he responded with aerial bombardment, famously ordering the air force to " bomb everything that moves until it stops moving.

When asked if he was upset that the computer's debut was delayed by several months, Jobs responded, " Late?

When asked about the name change, he responded that it was necessary due to the corruption it suffered at the hands of Novotny.

When Hank Aaron said that pitchers should not be eligible for the MVP, Clemens responded: " I wish he were still playing.

When the abbot complained to the Confederates about the damages and demanded full compensation, Varnbüler responded with a counter suit and in cooperation with Schwendiner rejected the arbitration efforts of the non-partisan Confederates.

When questioned by the police he responded: " Yes ; that is my flag ; I burned it.

When a man asked what she was drinking, she coyly responded with, " milk ".

When she asked Arafat why he would not stop going, he responded by saying that he wanted to study Jewish mentality.

When additional French troops arrived in Leith, Edinburgh's seaport, the Protestants responded by retaking Edinburgh.

When the Roman Catholic Church protested, she responded vehemently, “ I can't understand all the tumult-five years after Auschwitz .”

When viewers realized that Willow was falling in love with Tara, Whedon remembered that some threatened to boycott the show, complaining " You made Willow a fag ", to which he responded, " Bye.

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 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 we opened the door again for business and switched on the lights she said:

When she would do these things, he would turn blind for an instant and become sick at his stomach.

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 she appeared, two or three of the little girls jumped up and down, yelling, `` Goody, goody ''.

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

When Mrs. Coolidge was in mourning, she did not wear black.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

When I informed her that I didn't, she said she would borrow her brother's and bring it to me later that evening.

When these chores were finished, only then, was she allowed whatever freedom she could find.

When different colors are used, she is just as likely to color trees purple, hair green, etc..

When she agrees, you can rest assured her position will remain unchanged.

When a dancer does well, she provokes a quiet bombardment of dollar bills -- although the Manhattan clubs prohibit the more cosmopolitan practice of slipping the tips into the dancers' costumes.

When he told her God had called the child to Him, she rejected his words rebelliously.

When she returned to life in the big house she felt shriveled of all emotion save dedication to duty.

When Kate hurried in alarm to tell him to put it out, she saw other dots of flames among the western Virginia hills from the few scattered fires of the faithful.

When Claire returned to Bishopsgate she longed to tell them she had become Byron's mistress.

When the fate of the individual is visited on the group, then ( the warm sweet butter dripped from her raised trembling fork and she pushed her head forward belligerently ), ah, then the true bitterness of existence could be tasted.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.