When a general said in a meeting " We should throw in a nuke once in a while to keep the other side guessing ," Dyson became alarmed and obtained permission to write an objective report discussing the pros and cons of using such weapons from a purely military point of view.

When Drake finally reached its deck, his men were alarmed at his bedraggled appearance.

When they arrive they and their families are 70 in number, but within four generations they have increased to 600, 000 men of fighting age, and the Pharaoh of Egypt, alarmed, first enslaves them and then orders the death of all male Hebrew children.

When alarmed it may lower its body, withdraw the forward two legs straight rearward into a defensive position, withdraw the rearmost pair of legs into a position for lunging forward, and stand motionless with pedipalps raised.

When alarmed, gaur crash into the jungle at a surprising speed.

When alarmed, they use a high-pitched whistle to warn the rest of the colony, hence the name " whistle-pig ".

When the Romans saw the Etruscans and Gauls in northern Italy joining the Samnites they were alarmed.

When Edmund, her younger son, hears her moving around at night and entering the spare bedroom, he becomes very alarmed.

When alarmed, Bachman ’ s Warbler jerked its tail and raised its crown feathers.

When alarmed, it will bark a sound much like a dog and flash out its white rump patch.

When the twins reveal the truth of Sophie's death to the Chief of Police, he is alarmed.

When alarmed, the thick-tailed gecko will make a barking sound or hiss.

When alarmed, they will often display a distinctive flared rump, much like the American elk.

When John Quincy Adams became a senator in 1803, he reported to his father that Otis " is much alarmed at the prospect of being removed from office.

When alarmed at their perch, they slowly move the head to point up their bill and can easily be mistaken for a jagged broken branch.

When dealing with the moral behaviour of adults, however, Samuel Croxall asks, with reference to political alarmism, " when we are alarmed with imaginary dangers in respect of the public, till the cry grows quite stale and threadbare, how can it be expected we should know when to guard ourselves against real ones?

When alarmed, they erect the crest and the head appears large and framed by the ruff.

When U. S. troop training began for World War I, the idea of black soldiers receiving combat instruction alarmed many white Southerners.

When the rich man saw the huge flames leaping up on every side, he was greatly alarmed and fearful and thought to himself, I can escape to safety through the flaming gate, but my sons are inside the burning house enjoying themselves and playing games, unaware, unknowing, without alarm or fear.

When alarmed or alert, the nape feathers are raised into a pointed crest.

When my father came up in the morning to lecture, and found that I had been engaged in this scrape, he was very much alarmed.

When alarmed, the Least Bittern freezes in place with its bill pointing up, turns its front and both eyes toward the source of alarm, and sometimes sways to resemble wind-blown marsh vegetation.

When Benton tells them that Sarah has gone off with Kettlewell, the Doctor is alarmed.

When Jimmy Courtney ( Robert Sterling ), Liz's high society former boyfriend, becomes alarmed because Liz is going to pieces due to a guilty conscience, he offers Johnny all his money to leave the country and take Liz with him.

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 a stepparent adopts a stepchild, either the non-custodial parent of the child willingly gives up his or her parental rights to the child, or the court terminates the parental rights of the biological parent if there is evidence of abuse or neglect to the child.

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 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.