* When 2000 was approaching, at least three large Swedish magazines ranked penicillin as the most important discovery of the millennium.

When Allen and his men landed above St. John and scouted the situation, they learned that a column of 200 or more regulars was approaching.

When a person is aware of approaching death, and feels that s / he has completed all duties, s / he willingly ceases to eat or drink gradually.

When the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was approaching completion, the directors of the railway ran a competition to decide whether stationary steam engines or locomotives would be used to pull the trains.

When approaching Rome ( where Tarquin was heading to try his luck in politics after unsuccessful attempts in his native Tarquinii ), an eagle swooped down, removed his hat, flew screaming in circles, replaced the hat on his head and flew away.

When victory looked near, Gallienus made the mistake of approaching the city walls too closely and was gravely injured, compelling him to withdraw the campaign.

When at Ecbatana, Darius learned of Alexander's approaching army, he decided to retreat to Bactria where he could better use his cavalry and mercenary forces on the more even ground of the plains of Asia.

When the clouds deepen and spread, especially when they are of the cirrus radiatus variety or cirrus fibratus species, this usually indicates an approaching weather front.

When approaching the Imperial throne, one was expected to kowtow before the Emperor.

When a revolutionary gives a speech to try to drum up support for the army approaching despite rain in the north, Wang Lung and O-Lan realize the drought is over.

When Cyrus learned that his elder brother, the Great King, was approaching with his army, he drew up his army in battle array.

When approaching the first hurdle, athletes try to avoid Stutter stepping ( a term used to refer to the cutting of stride length before reaching a hurdle ).

When Abram was ninety-nine, God declared Abram's new name: “ Abraham, a father of many nations .” Abram then received the instructions to circumcise every male in his household for the inauguration rite into God's covenant because the time was approaching for him to have a son by his wife, Sarai.

When used for casual portable use they block out sounds which can be important for safety ( e. g., approaching vehicles ).

When seen from high altitude s, the gradient in the sky's color varies from pale to dark at Horizontal coordinate system | elevations approaching the zenith

When he felt that pressure of working under him had become too great, he would announce that his birthday was approaching, and his staff would have several days free from work in order to celebrate it.

When Doe finds the detectives approaching his apartment, he opens fire on them and flees, chased by Mills.

When the Baltic Fleet was approaching Umeå, news came that the Treaty of Åbo () had been finalized, with Sweden ceding to Russia the towns of Lappeenranta and Hamina and a strip of Finland to the northwest of Saint Petersburg.

When, on September 14, 1714, he suddenly returned to his dominions, Stralsund and Wismar were all that remained to him of his continental possessions ; while by the end of 1715 Sweden, now fast approaching the last stage of exhaustion, was at open war with Great Britain, Hanover, Russia, Prussia, Saxony and Denmark, who had formed a coalition to partition her continental territory between them.

When either of them spots a threat, they give a warning sound to let their partner know that danger is approaching.

When approaching the European coast, the larvae metamorphose into a transparent larval stage called " glass eel ", enter estuaries and start migrating upstream.

When the Persians heard that the Allied fleet was approaching, they set sail from Samos towards the Ionian mainland.

When they arrived in St. Louis it was said that the settlers were covered with mosquito bites and very nearly approaching starvation.

When headlights approach a nocturnal animal, this makes it hard for the creature to see the approaching car ( nocturnal animals see better in low than in bright light ).

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

When we see the steady and methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlessness -- until redeemed -- the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church-state ''.

: When once or twice, for man's avail,

When Brown was hanged without incident, Booth stood in uniform near the scaffold and afterwards expressed great satisfaction with Brown's fate, although he admired the condemned man's bravery in facing death stoically.

When the thirty-first day arrives, take out the root in the middle of the night and dry it in an oven heated with branches of verbena ; then wrap it up in a piece of a dead man's winding-sheet and carry it with you everywhere.

When you put your foot on a man's neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what's he going to do?

Although he expresses a strong professional ethic (" When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it.

When a villein addresses him as " Master ", Cadfael promptly corrects him: " No man's master, every man's brother, if you will.

When provisions are high, the people have so much to pay for them that they have little or nothing left to buy clothes with ; and when they have little to buy clothes with, there are few clothes sold ; and when there are few clothes sold, there are too many to sell, they are very cheap ; and when they are very cheap, there cannot be much paid for making them: and that, consequently, the manufacturing working man's wages are reduced, the mills are shut up, business is ruined, and general distress is spread through the country.

When he came to attack her, she turned on the fire torch and smudged ashes in the man's eyes.

When the joker rises to exit the bus, Tender recognizes the man's pants as Creedish dress, and suddenly recognizes the man as Adam, his twin brother.

When the man's neighbor also bought a subscription, Gaines declared the trip to be a financial success because the magazine had doubled its Haitian circulation.

When Europeans made contact with America, European diseases ( to which they had no immunity ) ravaged the indigenous American population, rather than the other way around ( the " trade " in diseases was a little more balanced in Africa and southern Asia: endemic malaria and yellow fever made these regions notorious as the " white man's grave "; and syphilis may have spread in the opposite direction ).

When written, i. e. formal invitations, the enlisted man's name is written as " Serviceman's name, USN / USMC / USA / USAF ", without one's rank preceding their name, unlike commissioned officers.

When cooked, burbot meat tastes very similar to American lobster, leading to the burbot's nickname of " poor man's lobster.

" When doctors learned of the man's medical history, they performed a computed tomography ( CT ) scan and magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) scan, and were astonished to see " massive enlargement " of the lateral ventricles in the skull.

When Burns said: " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a ' that "; when Sterne, in Tristram Shandy, said, " Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal, but gold and silver will pass all the world over without any other recommendation than their own weight ," what did these writers do but adopt — adopt without improving — Manly's fine saying to Freeman, in the first act: " I weigh the man, not his title ; ' tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better or heavier "?

When the number of residents per public space rose above a certain level, none would identify with these " no man's land " – places where it was " impossible to feel ... to tell resident from intruder ".

When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded as another man's slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four bloody years of war.

When she arrived in Michigan several months later, she was pregnant with another man's child.

When a food riot erupts, Wang Lung unwillingly joins a mob that is looting a rich man's house and corners the man himself, who fears for his life and gives Wang Lung all the money he has in order to buy his safety.

When the dragoon orderly attached to Arthur Wellesley ( the future Duke of Wellington ) is killed in the early stages of the battle, Sharpe takes the man's place, and so is at hand when Wellesley is unhorsed among the enemy.

When Margaret becomes pregnant in " Do Not Forsake Me O ' My Postman " ( 1993 ) with another man's baby, Cliff stays with her side and decides to be the stepfather of her baby.