When he had recovered, he sailed to the front, but was shipwrecked ; after coming ashore with a handful of companions, he crossed hostile territory to Caesar's camp, which impressed his great-uncle considerably.

When Hanna and Barbera started their own cartoon studio in 1957, they created a handful of sound effects, and had limited choices.

When the Maquis ship was destroyed by crashing into a Kazon ship to save the USS Voyager, Tuvok was transported off the ship with a handful of other survivors, and resumed his duties as Security & Tactical Officer.

) When the new Parliament of Southern Ireland was called into session in June 1921, only the four Unionist members of the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, and a handful of appointed senators, turned up in the Royal College of Science in Dublin, where the meeting was scheduled to take place ; the others convened elsewhere as the Dáil.

When an assistant protested a script that envisioned a love scene in Paris with an ocean background Thalberg refused to make changes, saying " We can't cater to a handful of people who know Paris.

When Stamitz settled in Jena the town had less than 5, 000 inhabitants, the first steam engine lay still 70 years in the future and there was just a handful of real workers living there.

When the normally barren Lake Eyre filled during 1974 to 1976, for example, only a handful of pelicans remained around the coastal cities: when the great inland lakes dried again, the population dispersed once more, flocks of thousands being seen on the northern coasts.

When the theaters reopened during the Restoration, a handful of Brome's plays were performed and republished ; the most successful was A Jovial Crew, which was acted widely and printed in 1661, 1684, and 1708.

When he completed the down run in 06: 56 in 1923, there were only a handful of spectators on hand to witness the finish because so few thought it possible that the race could be run so quickly.

When it came into force, the Treaty of Lisbon formally enshrined fisheries conservation policy as one of the handful of ' exclusive competences ' reserved for the European Union, to be decided by Qualified Majority Voting.

# ' When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

:*" When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

When Bishop's story " Dogs ' Lives " was reprinted in Best American Short Stories 1985, it became one of only a handful of genre stories to appear in the prestigious anthology series.

When a spontaneous strike by a handful of women workers there led to a citywide strike of 45, 000 garment workers in 1910, Hillman was a rank-and-file leader in the strike.

When jumping onto her bed, the frog-Mildred notices a tatty handful of weeds on her pillow, no doubt left by Ethel as a reference to her family's insult and why she turned her into the frog.

) When the law was passed, " neither advocates nor opponents of the policy, including FDA officials, believed it would have broad application, for only a handful of chemicals had then been shown to be animal carcinogens.

When the Labour government split over the financial crisis in 1931, Jowitt was one of only a handful of Labour MPs to follow MacDonald into the National Government.

When von Romberg came up to Lasalle he was shocked to see that 10, 000 soldiers in perfect fighting condition together with 300 guns and a town of 23, 000 inhabitants had just surrendered to a handful of hussars.

When he glanced up to see what it was, some person had placed a tall drink glass partially filled with water and a handful of Alka Seltzer tablets.

When they contact the ship, they find a handful of Tarellian refugees that were traveling at sub-light speeds to Haven in hopes of finding an isolated place away from Human contact, to live out the rest of their lives.

When England qualified for the 1990 World Cup in Italy, Stevens was duly named in the squad though again a handful of critics had been scathing of his displays.

When Dr. Gō returned to Boazania, he broke him from capture and escaped with him to earth, along with a handful of rebels.

When the population of its only school fell to just a handful, the Taketomi authorities attempted to shut it down.

When Lee Kuan Yew was preparing for his successor, he identified a handful of ministers he considered suitable for the job, including Tony Tan, Ong Teng Cheong, Goh Chok Tong and Dhanabalan.

When they left to pursue a career on their own, they achieved success with a handful of disco-oriented tracks, culminating in the 1982 release " It's Raining Men ", a worldwide hit that peaked at # 2 on the UK singles chart, # 1 in Australia, # 1 on the Euro Hot 100, # 46 on the Billboard Hot 100, # 34 on the U. S. R & B chart, and # 1 on the U. S. Hot Dance Club Play chart.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.

When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.

When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorin ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.

When Nelson's fleet arrived off Egypt on 1 August and discovered Brueys's dispositions, he ordered an immediate attack, and his ships advanced on the French line.

When the messenger had finished, the French general reportedly announced " Nous n ' avons plus de flotte: eh bien.

When the news became certain, the French press insisted that the defeat was the result both of an overwhelmingly large British force and unspecified " traitors.

When Colonel de Gaulle did organize a counter-attack with superior French tanks, he did not have the air support to gain the upper hand and had to retreat.

When the capital was burned in 1893, the sultan sought and received protectorate status from the French.

When in 1981 François Mitterrand was elected president Denard lost the support of the French intelligence service, but he managed to strengthen the link between SA and the Comoros.

When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.

When the French general Junot arrived in Lisbon, the Portuguese fleet had already left with all the local elite.

When the Protestant Henry IV inherited the French throne in 1589, Elizabeth sent him military support.

When the affair became public, Federalists accused him of supporting the French while Republicans such as Thomas Jefferson supported him.

When the French Constituent Assembly abolished the " feudal regime " in August 1789 this is what was meant.

When the French public were asked to select which film they wanted to see most, having been told by the Vichy government that soon no more American films would be allowed in France, the overwhelming majority chose it over all others.

When the French king Charles VIII invaded northern Italy, Piero II chose to resist his army.

When his father returned to Assisi, he took to calling him Francesco (" the Frenchman "), possibly in honour of his commercial success and enthusiasm for all things French .< ref name =" Chesterton ">

When the French forces were recalled in 1706, he accompanied the duke to Paris, where he was favourably received by Louis XIV.

When the French tried to impose the French language, German opposition grew in intensity.

When Prussia tried to put a Hohenzollern candidate, Prince Leopold, on the Spanish throne, the French angrily protested.

When the Brunswick Manifesto of July 1792 once more threatened the French population with Austrian ( Imperial ) and Prussian attacks, Louis XVI was suspected of treason and taken along with his family from the Tuileries Palace in August 1792 by insurgents supported by a new revolutionary Paris Commune.

When France was negotiating with the Netherlands about purchasing Luxembourg in 1867, the Prussian Kingdom threatened the French government with war.

When the war ended on 11 November 1918, Italy's army had occupied most of Albania ; Serbia held much of the country's northern mountains ; Greece occupied a sliver of land within Albania's 1913 borders ; and French forces occupied Korçë and Shkodër as well as other regions with sizable Albanian populations such as Kosovo.