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When Nepos made the mistake of appointing the untrustworthy Orestes as his magister militum, his lack of a western core of support came back to haunt him.
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When he remembered that he might have not signed the check, Mercer made out another for the same amount, instructing the bank to destroy the other -- especially if he had happened to have absent-mindedly signed both of them.
When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.
When we look at countries like Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Burma, where substantial progress has been made in creating a minimum supply of modern men and of social overhead capital, and where institutions of centralized government exist, we find a second category of countries with a different set of problems and hence different priorities for policy.
When this proposal was made, Stalin spoke with stronger emotion than at any other time during the Conference.
When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.
When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.
When someone says, for example, `` They took x-rays to see that there was nothing wrong with me '', it pays to consider how this statement would normally be made.
When a sailing date of March, 1845 was finally established, Palfrey made sure that the Negroes would have comfortable quarters in New Orleans and aboard ship.
When Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov took it over in 1957 from Georgi Zaroubin, he made a determined effort to change this idea.
When he was made a vice president only a year after the new sales job, a leading business magazine ran his photograph with a brief biography in a series on national business leaders of the future.
When not ( e. g. Quest for the Future ) the disparate stories thrown together generally made for a less coherent plot.
When she made it, the results, starring Margaret Rutherford, were popular and successful light comedies, but were disappointing to Christie herself ; nevertheless, Agatha Christie dedicated the novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side to Rutherford.
When talking about those who have made " shipwreck " of their faith ( 1 Tim 1: 19 ), Wesley claims that " not one, or a hundred only, but I am persuaded, several thousands ... innumerable are the instances ... of those who had fallen but now stand upright.
When peace was made with Henry in 1142, Albert renounced the Saxon duchy and received the Counties of Weimar and Orlamünde.
When he was staying in Nicaea, his cousins, who had been living there, made an unsuccessful attempt to take his life.
When and mistake
When one manuscript has a difference compared to 99 % of the others, it is understood to be a copyist's mistake.
When ambassadors from other countries arrive, dressed in ostentatious gold jewels and badges, the Utopians mistake them for menial servants, paying homage instead to the most modestly dressed of their party.
When Edison was a very old man and close to death, he said, in looking back, that the biggest mistake he had made was in not respecting Tesla or his work.
When victory looked near, Gallienus made the mistake of approaching the city walls too closely and was gravely injured, compelling him to withdraw the campaign.
When Dyrrhachus was attacked by his own brothers, Heracles, who was passing through the area, came to his aid, but in the fight the hero killed his ally's son by mistake.
When a cameraman realized that the cels for the desert scenes were not wide enough and revealed the transparency, Bakshi painted a cactus to cover the mistake.
When he submitted the name to the government, due to poor penmanship or a mistake, " Davis Town " became Daviston and has since remained.
" When the bill erecting it passed the Legislature, however, Martin Van Buren, then a State Senator, and who, being an ardent admirer of the great Napoleon, was somewhat incensed at one of his political opponents ( Elisha Williams, if we mistake not ), who had succeeded in having a town in Seneca county christened " Waterloo ," leaped to his feet and moved to amend by calling the new town " Austerlitz.
When Bill answers the phone, he gives the caller the exact address — not knowing what a big mistake he is making.
When Puck puts the love potion on Lysander by mistake, and then on Demetrius, Helena finds herself loved by two men, and confusion breaks out.
When it was discovered that this was a mistake, the House of Lords decided that there were two baronies of Strange, the original 1299 creation and the new, 1628 creation.
When we rehearsed I could see that the musicians didn't like it at all and in the break the side drum player ( who starts the movement with a solo ) came to me and said " Maestro, my part is marked crotchet equals 94 ", which I thought must be a mistake, since none of the other parts have a tempo marking.
When she realised her mistake, she was acutely embarrassed, but Alexander reassured her with the words, " You were not mistaken, Mother ; this man too is Alexander.
When Jessica and her friends stop there and mistake him for an employee, he services their car to avoid raising suspicion.
When they were together Whymper asked to see the broken rope and saw that it had been employed by mistake as it was the weakest and oldest of the three ropes they had brought.
When it stops working for you, when you ’ ve painted yourself into a corner and the only way out is to say, I ’ m sorry, I made a mistake, I wish we could compromise somehow, then do it.
When he returns home heartbroken, Ross finds a message on his answering machine and when he plays it back he hears Rachel telling him she loves him too and what a mistake she's made and has to get off the plane but is interrupted by flight attendants when the line cuts off, leaving Ross wondering if she got off.
When Ronan is wounded in battle with Vulcan's forces, Medusa states to the Shi ' ar that they had made a big mistake and vows that they will pay for this.
When the series The Return of the Saint was created in the 1970s, Jaguar made up for their mistake and offered the new XJ-S for the series.
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