When a group adopts any one of these basic assumptions, it interferes with the task the group is attempting to accomplish.

When a trigonal boron atom accepts a pair of electrons from a Lewis base, it adopts a tetrahedral configuration ( sp < sup > 3 </ sup >), and the octet rule is satisfied.

When riding with short stirrups, the rider often adopts what is known as a forward seat, thus inhibiting the horse's balance and athletic maneuverings as little as possible.

When Annie performs her trick and becomes a star, Chief Sitting Bull adopts her into the Sioux tribe (" I'm An Indian Too "§).

When coiled it adopts a flat cross-section but when unrolled it returns to its former curve, thus producing a constant force throughout the displacement and negating any tendency to re-wind.

When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog.

When the oxalate chelates to a single metal center, it always adopts the planar conformation.

When applied to fashion, this theory states that when the lowest social class, or simply a perceived lower social class, adopts the fashion, it is no longer desirable to the leaders in the highest social class.

When attacked, the common toad adopts a characteristic stance, inflating its body and standing with its hindquarters raised and its head lowered.

When alarmed, Xenosaurus adopts a threat posture, with mouth agape, revealing a black membrane.

: When Elizabeth sees Kuriko, who resembles Elizabeth's mother, lift up a helmet, it reminded her of a knight that guarded her and Elizabeth adopts Kuriko as her new mother.

When he arrives, he takes the doctor's account to heart and leaves the woman at the hospital, where she eventually adopts the role of insanity imposed upon her by the medical staff.

When the President adopts an internationalist policy of diplomacy towards enemies of the United States, the hawkish Secretary of Defense attempts a coup that will wipe out key members of the government during the President's State of the Union address, leaving him in charge.

When portraying Baltar's " native " accent, James Callis adopts a Yorkshire accent as it is an accent that can be stereotypically associated with people who come from a working-class background and thus fit the image that his character was trying to project of life on Aerilon as an isolated agricultural planet.

When it becomes necessary to elude this stance it has made of itself, it then adopts the first-person perspective.

When metamorphosis occurs, the velum is lost, and the newly metamorphosed juvenile adopts its slug-like adult form.

When the Steering Committee ( SC ) adopts a concept paper as a new topic, the process of consensus building begins.

When a meme is introduced, those concepts begin to take on their own process of evolution based on the person who adopts the ideology, internalizes it, and reintroduces it into society causing it to spread like a virus.

When a woman marries, she usually adopts the surname of her husband and uses her father's surname ( her maiden surname ) as her middle name and drops her mother's maiden name ( her former middle name ).

When a district councillor questioned Police Commissioner Tang King Shing regarding the incident, Tang did not respond to the question directly, choosing to reply that the police acts according to law and adopts a stringent management of all covert surveillance operations.

When he has no offspring at all, the patriarch often adopts both a boy as his successor and a girl as the successor ’ s wife.

When a nation is without a currency it commonly adopts a foreign currency.

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 early part of the gradient was flattened, either by using the gradient shown in Fig. 2 or by allowing the `` cone-sphere '' gradient to become established more slowly, Region 2 activity could sometimes be separated into two areas ( donors P. J. and R. S., Fig. 1 and E. M., Fig. 2 ).

When Alec finished reading he was sure that either Forbes or Stacy had killed Diana Beauclerk.

When he appeared either in church or chapter all present rose and bowed.

When taken up into the human body from the diet, the 22 standard amino acids either are used to synthesize proteins and other biomolecules or are oxidized to urea and carbon dioxide as a source of energy.

When Agamemnon came home he was slain by either Aegisthus ( in the oldest versions of the story ) or Clytemnestra.

When barter did in fact occur, it was usually between either complete strangers or would-be enemies.

When a boxer is knocked down, the other boxer must immediately cease fighting and move to the furthest neutral corner of the ring until the referee has either ruled a knockout or called for the fight to continue.

When two places trade with one another, this doctrine supposes that, if the balance be even, neither of them either loses or gains ; but if it leans in any degree to one side, that one of them loses and the other gains in proportion to its declension from the exact equilibrium.

When there are no enemy discs on the board, many ( but not all ) rules also state that a player must shoot for the centre of the board, and a shot disc must finish either completely inside the 15-point guarded ring line, or ( depending on the specifics of the rules ) be inside or touching this line.

When continuity mistakes have been made, explanations are often proposed by either writers or fans to smooth over discrepancies.

When in contact with one of the electrodes in a fuel cell, this platinum increases the rate of oxygen reduction to water, either to hydroxide or hydrogen peroxide.

When a business is unable to service its debt or pay its creditors, the business or its creditors can file with a federal bankruptcy court for protection under either Chapter 7 or Chapter 11.

When those forced into exile owned valuables, including artwork, they were often seized by officials who either kept them as personal possessions or sold them at auction for cash.

When this field is instead studied using the QED vacuum of quantum electrodynamics, it is seen that the plates do affect the virtual photons which constitute the field, and generate a net force — either an attraction or a repulsion depending on the specific arrangement of the two plates.

* When the metal atoms are hexagonal close packed, ( hcp ), as the octahedral interstices lie directly opposite each other on either side of the layer of metal atoms, filling only one of these with carbon achieves 2: 1 stoichiometry with the CdI < sub > 2 </ sub > structure.

When audio files are to be processed, either by further compression or for editing, it is desirable to work from an unchanged original ( uncompressed or losslessly compressed ).

When it is either not possible or not desirable to award the victim in that way, a court may award money damages designed to restore the injured party to the economic position s / he occupied at the time the contract was entered ( known as the " reliance measure "), or designed to prevent the breaching party from being unjustly enriched (" restitution ") ( see below ).

When a personal injury claim is settled either in court or out of court, the most common way the compensation payment is made is by a lump sum award in full and final settlement of the claim.

When I address Fred I never have to raise either my voice or my hopes.

When framed in wood for snug fitting of a door, the doorway consists of two vertical jambs on either side, a lintel or head jamb at the top, and perhaps a threshold at the bottom.

When this was completed in 1788, the heavy cavalry regiments had become either Dragoon Guards or Heavy Dragoons ( depending on their precedence ).

When it is employed by other Gnostics either it is not used in a technical sense, or its use has been borrowed from Valentinus.

When playing the double bass, the bassist either stands or sits on a high stool and leans the instrument against the bassist's body with the bass turned slightly inwards in order to more easily reach the strings.

When the orchestra stops playing ( which is often in the summer ), orchestral bassists have to find other work, either as a teacher or coach, or in another group.