When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.

Joyce went on, `` When we'd finished, Lou -- Mr. Thor -- asked me to stay a little longer.

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 he was asked a question or addressed in such a way that some response was inescapable, he would answer ; ;

When something unexpected happened, one always asked for water if one were a woman, brandy if one were a man.

When a witness at court was asked if he had been kicked in the ensuing rumpus, he replied, `` No, it was in the stomach ''.

When a customer asked for alligator shoes, she said, `` What size is your alligator ''??

When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.

When asked how this was different from being a good Protestant, the boy answered, `` It's the same thing ''.

When I interviewed Kirby, who as a boy picked up pears in the Borden yard, I asked if anybody else in the household besides Lizzie and Morse had been under any suspicion at the time of the murders.

When Dr. Wallace Buttrick, wise in his judgment of people, declined to have the Science Building named for him, he wrote Miss Tapley ( April 7, 1923 ) `` If you had asked me, I think I would have suggested that you name the building for Miss Upton.

When I asked, `` Why didn't you go into the living room to see how Mrs. Buck was ''??

When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.

When that monk came down and approached him with a respectful salutation, he asked: `` Where art thou from ''??

When asked because of what, Hayakawa is said to have replied: " Words.

::" When it is asked, What is the nature of all our reasonings concerning matter of fact?

When again it is asked, What is the foundation of all our reasonings and conclusions concerning that relation?

When his friend, the British publicist William T. Stead, asked him to create a new organization for the goal of a peace and arbitration society, his reply was as such:

When the students were asked to comment on the accuracy of the test with a rating more than 40 % gave it the top mark of 5 out of 5, and the average rating was 4. 2.

" a Christian ( Minaah ) once asked Abbahu in a tone of mockery, whereupon he replied: " When you will be wrapped in darkness, for it says, ' Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the nations ; then shall the Lord rise upon thee and His glory shall be seen on thee ' lx. 2 ," ( Sanhedrin 99a ).

When Abdülhamid came to the throne the army asked for gratuities and the sultan claimed that: " There are, no longer, gratuities in our treasury, all of our soldier sons should learn ".

When asked later why he had stopped writing about Greek poetry, he responded, " I found that I could not attain to excellence in both.

When asked by a reporter after getting struck by lightning why they were flying a kite in a thunderstorm, the duo explained that they were inspired by a documentary about Benjamin Franklin.

When asked about the rumor during the launch of her endorsement of FLIRT!

When Ansgar asked if King Olof would permit him to establish the Christian religion in the kingdom during his second visit in 852, the king said to him:

When you disliked or distrusted a man, you should have a reason.

When Continental Airlines night-coach Flight 54 took off at 11:30 one night last week, there was no reason to think it would take any longer.

When they say that under no circumstances would it ever be right to `` permit '' the termination of the human race by human action, because there could not possibly be any proportionate grave reason to justify such a thing, they know exactly what they mean.

When the Ottomans arrived to occupy Tripoli in 1551, they saw little reason to rein in the pirates, preferring instead to profit from the booty.

When passed and the reloader can provide a reason for his will to reload (" Bedürfnisprüfung "), he can apply for a permit to a quota of propellant for five years ( after which time he has to extend the permit ).

When Humayun sent the grand Mufti, Sheikh Buhlul, to reason with him, the Sheikh was killed.

When the tests set out by the Rules are satisfied, the accused may be adjudged " not guilty by reason of insanity " or " guilty but insane " and the sentence may be a mandatory or discretionary ( but usually indeterminate ) period of treatment in a secure hospital facility, or otherwise at the discretion of the court ( depending on the country and the offence charged ) instead of a punitive disposal.

When Richard Nixon tried to use executive privilege as a reason for not turning over subpoenaed evidence to Congress during the Watergate scandal, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Nixon,, that executive privilege did not apply in cases where a president was attempting to avoid criminal prosecution.

When the letters suddenly stop coming, he heads to Poland to find out the reason.

When the matter of honorary degrees came up at the University of Göttingen six years after Germain's death, Gauss lamented, “ proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something worthwhile in the most rigorous and abstract of the sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

When counsel refused to sign the answer, for whatever reason, the defendant was considered to have confessed.

When a case is closed to the public, the court has to declare the reason.

When one considers Simon's father's position in forcing John to reason at Runnymede, and the consequent strength and infighting within English nobility, the younger Simon's later motivation becomes quite clear.

When observed over a short period of time, the components of both optical doubles and long-period visual binaries will appear to be moving in straight lines ; for this reason, it can be difficult to distinguish between these two possibilities.

* When Tintin asks Senhor Oliveira about why the Emir got angry with Arabair, Oliveira stumbles a bit, probably hiding the rather embarrassing reason.

" Horace Greeley in the New York Tribune wrote " When a sincere republican is asked to say in sober earnest what adequate reason he can give, for refusing the demand of women to an equal participation with men in political rights, he must answer, None at all.

When exclusive dealings or tying arrangements are challenged under Clayton-3 ( or Sherman-1 ), they are treated as rule of reason cases.

When Stauffenberg sent Tresckow a message through Lieutenant Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort asking whether there was any reason for trying to assassinate Hitler given that no political purpose would be served, Tresckow's response was: " The assassination must be attempted, coûte que coûte the cost.

When determining which server of equal preference to send mail to, " the sender-SMTP MUST randomize them to spread the load across multiple mail exchangers for a specific organization ", unless there is a clear reason to favor one.

When a product fails for no obvious reason, SEM and Energy-dispersive X &# 8209 ; ray spectroscopy ( EDX ) performed in the microscope can reveal the presence of aggressive chemicals that have left traces on the fracture or adjacent surfaces.

When the drainage system has ceased to act or is entirely diverted for any reason, the floodplain may become a level area of great fertility, similar in appearance to the floor of an old lake.

When they retire flat race for some reason, they are trained for jump.

When he recovered his reason in January 1455, Henry lost little time in reversing York's actions.

" When asked if there was a specific reason for her leaving NYU, she replied, " I think we can all guess.

When the scissors arrive the man begins to trim his nails “ for no other reason than the sudden availability of the correct object.