When a vessel is in a narrow channel or on a lee shore so that there is no room to tack the vessel in a conventional manner an anchor attached to the lee quarter may be dropped from the lee bow.

When the time is running continuously, the 32-bit time code is broken into 8 4-bit pieces, and one piece is transmitted each quarter frame.

When the siege had started, Saladin was unwilling to promise terms of quarter to the Frankish inhabitants of Jerusalem until Balian of Ibelin threatened to kill every Muslim hostage, estimated at 5000, and to destroy Islam's holy shrines of the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque if quarter was not given.

When Quarter Horse racing began, it was very expensive to lay a full mile of track so it was agreed that a straight track of four hundred meters, or one quarter of a mile would be laid instead.

When a phylloxera outbreak in the last quarter of the 19th century devastated the vineyards of France and Europe, calvados experienced a " golden age ".

When surveyed, 10-45 % of adolescents reported having experiencing physical violence in the context of a relationship while one-third to a quarter of adolescents reported having experiencing psychological aggression.

When the Mikołajczyk's People's Party ( PPP ) continued to resist pressure to renounce a ticket of its own outside the communist party bloc, it was exposed to open terror, including the disqualification of PPP candidates in one quarter of the districts and the arrest of over 1000, 000 PPP activists, followed by vote rigging that resulted in Gomułka's communists winning a majority in the carefully controlled poll.

When the Jefferson Highway was first located through Eufaula the only way of crossing the South Canadian River, about four miles below the town, was by means of a rather uncertain ferry, and the citizens of Eufaula, feeling the great need of a good bridge across the river, incorporated-The Jefferson Highway Bridge Company, and at a cost of almost a quarter of a million dollars, built the present splendid structure of steel and concrete, forty feet above low water ; affording a 365 day crossing throughout the year.

When the Hispanic and Gauls got the upper hand, they cut down the Roman cavalry without giving quarter.

When fed with an RF current at the resonant frequency, the quarter wave element contains a standing wave with the voltage and current largely ( but not exactly ) in phase quadrature, as would be obtained using a quarter wave stub of transmission line.

When refugees from the fire-stricken, poorer Jewish quarter of San Francisco came to Oakland, the synagogue provided immediate aid.

" When translated from Spanish to English, barrio signifies " district " or " quarter " while colonia is the corresponding Mexican Spanish word.

Richard Hawkins reports that " When they fight under Jolly Roger, they give quarter, which they do not when they fight under the red or bloody flag.

Beginning with the words: " When King Nimrod went out to the fields / Looked at the heavens and at the stars / He saw a holy light in the Jewish quarter / A sign that Abraham, our father, was about to be born ", the song gives a poetic account of the persecutions perpetrated by the cruel Nimrod and the miraculous birth and deeds of the savior Abraham.

When the New Orleans Square area was added in the early 1960s, there was no more room in that quarter of the park for large attractions.

When the Landsknechts were first formed, arquebusiers composed up to an eighth of the total number of soldiers, but the number gradually grew to be about a quarter.

When the game begins, the two players with glasses pick up a quarter and try to bounce it off of the table into the shot glass in front of them as quickly as possible.

When the denarius was retariffed to sixteen asses ( due to the gradual reduction in the size of bronze denominations ), the sestertius was accordingly revalued to four asses, still equal to one quarter of a denarius.

When Caesar became consul, Cato opposed the agrarian laws that established farmlands for Pompey's veterans on public lands in Campania, from which the republic derived a quarter of its income.

When Tzrifin will be sold to private contractors as planned, this quarter is expected to expand significantly with new lucrative housing projects.

Temporarily, to relieve the foreign congregations, Huna ben Abin once advised Rava not to wait for the official intercalation: When you are convinced that the winter quarter will extend beyond the sixteenth day of Nisan declare the year a leap year, and do not hesitate ( R. H. 21a ).

When the first outsiders visited Eyam a year later, they found that fewer than a quarter of the village had survived the plague.

When Philip IV died on 17 September 1665, the French king immediately laid claim to parts of the Spanish Netherlands: the Duchies of Brabant and Limburg, Cambrai, the marquessate of Antwerpen, the Lordship of Mechelen, Guelders, the counties of Namur, Artois and Hainaut, a third of the County of Burgundy and a quarter of the Duchy of Luxembourg.

When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.

When used for its medicinal purposes ayahuasca affects the human consciousness for less than six hours, beginning half an hour after consumption, and peaking after two hours.

When used as a unit of power, Btu per hour ( Btu / h ) is the correct unit, though this is often abbreviated to just " Btu ".

When a distance in kilometers ( km ) is divided by a time in hours ( h ), the result is in kilometers per hour ( km / h ).

When the mainland United States is on Standard Time, the U. S. Virgin Islands are one hour ahead of Eastern Standard Time.

* May 3 – When the Japanese Emperor and the officers are about to leave for the Abstinence-palace at the hour of sunrise, Princess Tōchi suddenly takes ill and dies within the Palace.

When a car is 10 miles ( an hour ) off the pace, it's not appropriate to be racing.

When one moves eastward 15 ° in longitude, sidereal time is larger by one sidereal hour ( note that it wraps around at 24 hours ).

When the tumult and the shouting die, when the bands are gone and the lights are dimmed, there is the stark reality of responsibility in an hour of history haunted with those gaunt, grim specters of strife, dissension, and materialism at home, and ruthless, inscrutable, and hostile power abroad.

When lactating, female rats display a 24 hour rhythm of maternal behavior, and will usually spend more time attending to smaller litters than large ones.

When zero hour came, there was a brief and unsettling silence as artillery shifted their aim to a new line of targets and the time of the infantry to advance had come.

When less than 25 % of the capitalization of the CAC40 Index is able to be quoted, quotations on the derivative markets are suspended for half an hour or one hour when additional margin deposits are requested.

When he inquires two days later, he learns that Carnehan has died of sunstroke (" half an hour bare-headed in the sun at mid-day ...").

When the girl insisted, the woman threw a dish of lentils into the ashes for her to pick up, guaranteeing her permission to attend the festival, and when the girl accomplished the task in less than an hour with the help of two, white doves sent by her mother from Heaven, the stepmother only redoubled the task and threw down even a greater quantity of lentils.

When it began, the game show block ran for an hour, but expanded significantly the following year.

When completed, it will be the longest tunnel in the world, reducing travel time between Zürich and Lugano to 1 hour 40 minutes.

When the network wanted to expand All My Children from 30 minutes to a full hour in the late 1970s, Nixon agreed on the condition that the network would begin saving the episodes.

When the bridge was congested, crossing it could take up to an hour.

When chased, jerboas can run at up to 15 miles per hour.

When, prior to the recording, LaBour told Bailey that his article had been intended as a joke, Bailey sighed and replied " Well, we have an hour of television to do ; you're going to have to go along with this.

When the jury found him not guilty, the public shouted their approval so loudly and for so long that it was another half an hour before the proceedings could be formally closed.

When MGM closed its cartoon studio in 1957, Hanna-Barbera began producing cartoons directly for television, finding an audience in the evening " family hour " time.

When the four bands are of the same colour, an hour has passed.

When preparing homemade glögg using spices, the hot mixture is allowed to infuse for at least an hour, often longer, and then reheated before serving.