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When and projectile
When the bomb reached the design height for this stage ( reportedly 2, 000 meters ) the membrane closed a circuit, activating the circuit between the radar altimeters and the projectile gun.
When the projectile leaves the barrel, this spin lends gyroscopic stability to the projectile and prevents tumbling, in the same way that a properly thrown American football or rugby ball behaves.
When emplaced, the howitzer's high volume of fire compensates in large measure for the lower explosive weight of the projectile compared to the Army's 155mm and 8-inch howitzers.
When a hollow-point hunting bullet strikes a soft target, the pressure created in the pit forces the material ( usually lead ) around the inside edge to expand outwards, increasing the axial diameter of the projectile as it passes through.
When the projectile is swaged into the rifling, it takes on a mirror image of the rifling, as the lands push into the projectile in a process called engraving.
When used in the anti-tank role, a projectile that uses a shaped charge warhead is known by the acronym HEAT ( high explosive anti-tank ).
When a conductive projectile is inserted between the rails ( at the end connected to the power supply ), it completes the circuit.
When fired, however, instead of all the propellant blast following the projectile out the barrel, a large portion is allowed to escape to the rear, gaining a rearward directed momentum which is nearly equal to the forward momentum of the projectile.
When the projectile nears this point the electromagnet is switched off and the next electromagnet can be switched on, progressively accelerating the projectile down successive stages.
When the flux in the projectile lies in the linear portion of its material's B ( H ) curve, the force applied to the core is proportional to the square of coil current ( I )— the field ( H ) is linearly dependent on I, B is linearly dependent on H and force is linearly dependent on the product BI.
When wielded, it can shoot energy blasts from the hand or sword, fire projectile darts, and extrude whip-like grapples to attack or to climb.
When it reaches the base of the tube it hits a firing pin, which detonates the propellant and fires the projectile.
When the round is fired, the projectile is pushed off the spigot, but before the plug clears the spigot it is caught by a constriction at the base of the tube.
When fired the reaction gases ( with a momentum equal to the projectile ) expelled out of the back of the weapon compensate the force exerted on the projectile.
When a gun is fired, it initiates a spherical shock wave but the projectile also generates a conical wave.
When in flight, the main forces acting on the projectile are gravity, drag and if present wind.
When the projectile is fired, the sabot blocks the gas, and carries the projectile down the barrel.

When and is
When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.
When they express themselves it is incandescent hatred that shines forth, the rage of repudiation, the ecstasy of negation.
When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.
When the proprietor dies, the establishment should become a corporation until it is either acquired by another proprietor or the government decides to drop it.
When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.
When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.
When someone in the audience rose and asked how does it feel to be a celebrity, Carl said, `` A celebrity is a fellow who eats celery with celerity ''.
When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.
When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.
When we turn to Aristotle's ideas on the moral measure of literature, it is at once apparent that he is at times equally concerned about the influence of the art.
When their faith in civil liberties is tested against strong pressures of social expediency in specific issues, e.g., suppression of `` dangerous ideas '', many waver and give in.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.
When all else fails, it is argued that open sessions slow down governmental operations.
When a person has thoughtlessly or deliberately caused us pain or hardship it is not always easy to say, `` Just forget it ''.
When a person meets God's requirements for the experience of forgiveness he is forgiven.
When I hold my son he stiffens his whole body in my arms until he is as straight and stiff as a board.
When different colors are used, she is just as likely to color trees purple, hair green, etc..
When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, and when we realize that concessions to Communists do not insure peace or freedom, then, and only then will we no longer be `` soft ''.
When one powerful nation strives to emulate the success of another, it is only natural.
When a man is laid to rest, he is entitled to stay put.
When I talked to Ching about it, he said, Everyone can learn, if he is not a Reactionary or lazy.

When and thrown
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 not ( e. g. Quest for the Future ) the disparate stories thrown together generally made for a less coherent plot.
When all the individual segments are used, the knife may be thrown away, or, more often, refilled with a replacement blade.
When particles in a beam are thrown against a foil made of a certain substance, the cross section is a hypothetical area measure around the target particles of the substance ( usually its atoms ) that represents a surface.
When the lots were cast, Jonah's name came out, and he was thrown into the open ocean that night.
I had to console them with feeble excuses such as that His Excellency was not very well, or engaged in an urgent state call to Berlin ... For the rest of the morning he listened to reports from members of the Embassy staff, unless I had to accompany him to the Foreign Office ... When Ribbentrop strutted through the Office corridors like a peacock, his head thrown back, it was a miracle that he did not fall over.
When considering all of The Picture and not just the excerpt, Coleridge describes how inspiration is similar to a stream and that if an object is thrown into it the vision is interrupted.
When thrown against a hard surface, the glass would shatter and the contents would instantly ignite, liberating choking fumes of phosphorus pentoxide and sulphur dioxide as well as producing a great deal of heat.
When a star has lost enough material, its temperature increases and the ultraviolet radiation it emits can ionize the surrounding nebula that it has thrown off.
When a tree stump or other obstruction such as a rock is encountered, the ploughshare is thrown upwards, clear of the obstacle, to avoid breaking the plough's harness or linkage ; ploughing can be continued when the weight is returned to the earth after the obstacle is passed.
When enough significant anomalies have accrued against a current paradigm, the scientific discipline is thrown into a state of crisis, according to Kuhn.
* When a worm is thrown off either side of the arena
When Hephaestus was thrown from Olympus, whether cast out by Hera for his lameness or evicted by Zeus for taking Hera's side, the Oceanid Eurynome and the Nereid Thetis caught him and cared for him on the volcanic isle of Lemnos, while he labored for them as a smith, " working there in the hollow of the cave, and the stream of Okeanos around us went on forever with its foam and its murmur " ( Iliad 18. 369 ).
When an invasive herbivore or plant enters the system, the balance is thrown off and the diversity can collapse to a monotaxon system.
When first erected, though the grain was equally well separated from the straw, yet as the whole of the straw, chaff, and grain, was indiscriminately thrown into a confused heap, the work could only with propriety be considered as half executed.
When Luke kills it, Jabba sentences him to be thrown into The Pit of Carkoon, to be eaten by the Sarlacc.
When Charles IV died in 1328, the French Succession was thrown wide open.
When Beaton objected to the new arrangements Margaret had him arrested and thrown into jail.
When an exception is thrown, the kernel and base libraries unwind the stack running handlers and filters as they are encountered.
When Spanish records met Anglo records they were often just simply thrown away like Territorial Governor Pile did at the Palace of the Governors.
When plucked and thrown, a potion creates a door to Sub-Space, an alternate world in which coins are collected instead of vegetables when plucked.
When the German walked to the ring at Yankee Stadium on June 22, 1938, he did so under a hail of garbage thrown from the stands.
When the Poles finally took control, Blume was hanged and quartered, and fourteen officers and three knights with retainers were thrown into dungeons, where they met a miserable end.

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