When there is no obvious radical or more than one radical, convention governs which is used for collation.

When intelligence quotient ( IQ ) tests are initially standardized using a sample of test-takers, by convention the average of the test results is set to 100 and their standard deviation is set to 15 or 16 IQ points.

When a convention comes into force as a treaty, it creates a legal obligation for ratifying nations to apply its provisions.

When the Virginia convention began, the constitution had not yet been ratified by the required nine states.

When the vote was held, the convention barely had sufficient votes to ratify, and these likely did not appear until the last minute.

When intelligence quotient ( IQ ) tests are initially standardized using a sample of test-takers, by convention the average of the test results is set to 100 and their standard deviation is set to 15 IQ points.

When the convention failed for lack of attendance due to suspicions among most of the other states, the Annapolis delegates called for a convention to offer revisions to the Articles, to be held the next spring in Philadelphia.

When following the SI convention of not-mixing unit names and unit symbols the torr can be mixed with SI units to form, for example, torr · liters / second ( Torr · L / s ).

When he had recovered sufficiently he addressed a standing-room-only convention organized in Washington, D. C. by the National Geographic Society and satisfactorily defended his claims.

When compared by specific output, however, the convention results in large imbalances in favor of the Wankel motor.

When Laurier died in 1919, King was elected leader in the first Liberal leadership convention, defeating his four rivals on the fourth ballot.

When, at the December 1969 IRA convention and the January 1970 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis the delegates voted to participate in the Dublin ( Leinster House ), Belfast ( Stormont ) and London ( Westminster ) parliaments, the organizations split.

When the Republicans in June 1896 nominated former Ohio Governor William McKinley for president and passed at his request a platform strongly supporting the gold standard, a number of " Silver Republicans " walked out of the convention.

When the convention gathered, Roosevelt challenged the credentials of nearly half of the delegates.

When using this convention, left or right handedness is determined by pointing one's left or right thumb away from the source, in the same direction that the wave is propagating, and matching the curling of one's fingers to the direction of the temporal rotation of the field at a given point in space.

When using this convention, in contrast to the other convention, the defined handedness of the wave matches the handedness of the screw type nature of the field in space.

When such dissemination happens, the limitations of the original naming convention, which had formerly been latent and moot, become painfully apparent, often necessitating retronymy, synonymity, translation / transcoding, and so on.

When asked about anti-war demonstrators, Daley kept repeating to reporters that “ No thousands will come to our city and take over our streets, or city, our convention .” In the end, 10, 000 demonstrators gathered in Chicago for the convention where they were met by 23, 000 police and National Guardsmen.

When the convention rejected a pro-proviso plank and selected Lewis Cass as the nominee, the Barnburners again bolted and were the nucleus of forming the Free Soil Party.

When Pearson retired, Turner ran to succeed him at the 1968 leadership convention.

When Clark received an endorsement by only 66. 9 per cent of delegates at the party convention in January 1983 in Winnipeg, Clark resigned and ran to regain his post at the 1983 leadership convention.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

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 he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

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 our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

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

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

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 he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.