When Sima Zhao's son Sima Yan usurped the throne of Cao Wei in 265 and established the Jin Dynasty, Cao Fang and other Cao Wei princes were demoted to the status of dukes.

When Sima Shi notified her that he intended to make Cao Pi's brother Cao Ju ( 曹據 ), the Prince of Pengcheng, emperor, she managed to persuade him that such a succession would be improper, since Cao Ju was the uncle of her husband Cao Rui, such a succession would leave Cao Rui effectively without an heir.

) When Sima Shi asked her for the imperial seal, she again reasoned with him and refused politely, under the reasoning that she had met Cao Mao before and wanted to personally hand him the seal.

When Crown Prince Yu was in the palace to make an official petition to have his ill son Sima Bin ( 司馬彬 ) created a prince, Empress Jia forced him to drink a large amount of wine and, once he was drunk, had him write out a statement in which he declared intention to murder the emperor and the empress and to take over as emperor.

When Emperor Hui's grandsons Sima Zang and Sima Shang ( 司馬尚 ), successive crown princes, died in childhood, leaving Emperor Hui without male descendants by 302, Sima Ying was considered the appropriate successor, but Sima Jiong chose to bypass him by recommending the seven-year-old Sima Qin ( 司馬覃 ) the Prince of Qinghe ( Emperor Hui's nephew and the son of his brother Sima Xia ( 司馬遐 )) as the crown prince, with intent to easily control the young Crown Prince Qin.

When Liu heard this, instead of bringing his forces to Sima Ying's aid, he declared independence and entitled himself the Prince of Han — claiming rightful inheritance of Han Dynasty, as he claimed to be descended from a Han princess who had married a Xiongnu chanyu -- and thus establishing Han Zhao.

When Cao Pi was designated Crown Prince of Wei in 216, Sima was made his secretary.

When Cao Cao wavered on choosing between Cao Pi and his younger brother Cao Zhi, Sima was believed to be among those who backed Cao Pi and helped him secure the succession.

When Cao Rui became Emperor of Wei, he trusted Sima Yi greatly and appointed him Piaoqi General ( 骠骑大将军 ) and military commander of Yuzhou and Jingzhou ( 督荊豫二州諸軍事 ), placed him on the border between Wei and Wu to defend against Sun Quan's forces, and created him Marquess of Wuyang.

When Cao Zhen, who had been leading the defense against Zhuge Liang's Northern expeditions died in 231, Sima Yi took his position in command, and faced Zhuge Liang's armies for the first time in battle.

When Zhuge Liang finally did retreat, Sima Yi ordered Zhang He to pursue, who was ambushed and killed.

When Sima Yi heard of such ridicule, he laughingly responded, " I can predict the living, but not the dead.

When Sima Zhao became regent and Duke of Jin in 260, Jiang Wei seized it as an opportunity to punish Wei for deposition against its ruler, Cao Huan.

When Sima Daozi awoke from his stupor, he was enraged, but after that point his power became extremely limited, even though he nominally remained regent.

When, however, later that year Emperor An and Sima Dewen fell into the hands of Huan Xuan's nephew Huan Zhen ( 桓振 ), Huan Zhen considered executing Emperor An to avenge Huan Xuan's young son Huan Sheng ( 桓昇 ), who was killed by the rebels.

When asked by Sima Zhao if he missed his former state, Liu Shan replied:

When Romania changed sides in World War II, joining the Allies in August 1944, Sima was released and he ended up building a pro-Nazi puppet government in exile, in Vienna.

" When Sima Rui established an Eastern Jin regime at Jiankang in 317, he did so with the support of powerful members of these great families.

When Liu Bei entered Yi Province ( covering the Sichuan Basin ) with his major advisor, Pang Tong, he appointed Zhao Yun as the main officer overseeing his base in Gong ' an.

When Huang Zhong did not return on time, Zhao Yun brought a dozen men with him to find Huang.

When Zhao Yun saw that his subordinate Zhang Zhu was injured and had fallen behind, he turned back to rescue him.

Liu Shan's order for Zhao Yun to be honoured read, " When Zhao Yun was serving the late emperor ( Liu Bei ), his contributions were already remarkable.

When Zhao Yun and Zhao Fan got acquainted, the latter proposed a marriage between the former and Lady Fan, the widowed wife of Zhao Fan's older brother, while Zhao Yun politely declined, saying to Zhao Fan, " I share the same surname with you, therefore I regard your older brother as mine.

When Hsing Yun was a writer for local Taiwanese newsletters, magazines, and radio stations, he chose the pseudonym of Mo Jia ( 摩迦 ), the Chinese name for Mahakasyapa, a senior disciple of the Buddha.

When someone reported that to Liu Bei, Liu angrily threw a handaxe and said " Zilong ( Zhao Yun ) would never desert me.

When Zhao Yun presented A ' dou to Liu Bei, Liu threw his son to the ground, saying that his son had almost cost him one of his best generals.

When Zhao Yun did catch up with Liu Bei and the rest, however, Liu Bei threw the child onto the ground to show that his officers were more important to him than his own son.

When Zhao Yun learned of her departure, he rushed down to the quay, where Sun Shangxiang had already boarded the boat manned by Zhou Shan, whom Sun Quan sent to fetch his sister.

When inside the valley, Zhao Yun blocked the escape routes off and the mines were detonated, lightning the inflammable armour and destroying Wutugu and his troops.

When Liu Biao named his oldest son Liu Qi as his heir on his deathbed, Cai Mao and his nephew Zhang Yun wrote a forged will choosing Liu Biao's second son Liu Cong, because Liu Cong was married to Cai Mao's niece.

When Cao Cao marched on their territory with a huge army, Cai Mao and Zhang Yun surrendered and became Cao Cao's chief naval commanders against Sun Quan.

When Oh ’ s wife Shin Suk-ja and her little daughters were imprisoned in Yodok camp, Yun helped them and took photos, and a tape from NK to Berlin ( West ).

When Cao Cao's guest advisor Jiang Gan paid a second visit to Zhou Yu for the purpose of leaking back military information back to Cao, Zhou accused him of stealing secret information about enemy generals Cai Mao and Zhang Yun during his earlier visit ( which was a ruse staged by Zhou ) and had Jiang locked up in a temple.

When it was all completed ( in + 725 ) it was called the ' Water-Driven Spherical Bird's-Eye-View Map of the Heavens ( Shui Yun Hun Thien Fu Shih Thu ) or ' Celestial Sphere Model Water-Engine ' and was set up in front of the Wu Chheng Hall ( of the Palace ) to be seen by the multitude of officials.

When Hsu Yun was seventeen, he had already undergone the hardship of practicing Taoism for three years and was indeed disappointed.

When Hsu Yun arrived home, the family feared that he would escape again, so he was sent with his first cousin, Fu Kuo, to Quanzhou.

When his father sent agents to find him, Hsu Yun concealed himself in a grotto behind the monastery, where he lived in austere solitude for three years.

When Hsu Yun was fifty-six, the Abbot Yue Lang of Gaomin Temple ) in Yangzhou was going to convene a continuous twelve-week session of dhyana meditation.

When Gao expressed his thoughts to Li Xiannian, Chen Yun and Deng Xiaoping, they were both concerned that his attempts were a clear threat to Party unity.

When his mother died in 1791, Yun therefore refused to perform the usual Confucian ceremonies ; this became public knowledge, he was accused of impiety and was executed.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When the Know-nothings get control, it will read, All men are created equal except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.

When he was in the war, he was in Law or Supplies or something like that, and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals -- just like the one we sent in for Trig -- and go away with a real glow.

When directions read `` sl a marker on needle '', put a small safety pin, paper clip, or commercial ring marker on needle.

) When the complete file has been read, the grammatical descriptions for all text forms found in the dictionary have been stored in the W-region ; ;

When you read me, you are holding in your hands the product of many minds and hearts.

When Joshua read the Law to the people between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, they stood on each side of the Ark.

When this notation is used, these vectors are called ket, read as " ket-A ".

When the concessions of land were read in St. Peters, the crowd revolted in anger.

When the read is over, the CPU can be interrupted and presented with the read.

When a new symbol has been entered, the device typically sends an interrupt to alert the CPU to read it.

When read backwards, they read as Nicolaus Venator, the Latinized name of Palermo Observatory's former director, Niccolò Cacciatore.

When the Council of Trent listed the books included in the canon, it qualified the books as being " entire with all their parts, as they have been used to be read in the Catholic Church, and as they are contained in the old Latin vulgate edition ".

When Fat ' h Ali became the Shah of Persia in 1797, he was given a set of the Britannica's 3rd edition, which he read completely ; after this feat, he extended his royal title to include " Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopædia Britannica ".

When it comes time to issue the invitation to come to the table the warning from I Corinthians 11: 27-29 is read which is referred to as " fencing the table.

" The New American Standard Bible ( NASB ) translates this verse in the latter manner, and translations in other languages such as the Dutch Statenvertaling translate it likewise: " When this letter is read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans ; and you, for your part read my letter ( that is coming ) from Laodicea.

When Douglass was about twelve years old, Hugh Auld's wife Sophia started teaching him the alphabet despite the fact that it was against the law to teach slaves to read.

When Hugh Auld discovered her activity, he strongly disapproved, saying that if a slave learned to read, he would become dissatisfied with his condition and desire freedom.

When Douglass was hired out to William Freeland, he taught other slaves on the plantation to read the New Testament at a weekly Sunday school.

When the newspapers went on strike he read the funny papers on the radio.

When the read () command fails, at the end of file for instance, the failure will be passed up the chain and write () will fail as well.