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 analyzing the efficiency of algorithms that use stacks, one may also specify that all operations take the same time no matter how many items have been pushed into the stack, and that the stack uses a constant amount of storage for each element.

When used in scientific contexts, the term calorie refers to the small calorie ; it is often encountered in experimental calorimetry, and commonly used to specify bond and conformational energies in molecular modeling.

When describing a harpsichord it is customary to specify its choirs of strings, often called its disposition.

When Edward Witten named M-theory, he did not specify what the M stood for — perhaps because the nascent theory was not fully defined.

When dealing with functions of multiple variables, some of these variables may be related to each other, and it may be necessary to specify explicitly which variables are being held constant.

When implemented it allows the object to draw drag-and-drop effects, and to specify when the object is dropped, or the drag-and-drop operation is cancelled.

When implemented it allows the target to specify if a dropped object will be accepted, and what happens to an object after it is dropped.

When using Besselian years, specify which definition is being used.

When he registered for the draft, he answered the question " Do you claim exemption from draft ( specify grounds )?

When we specify the internal energy to be U, what we really mean is that the total energy of the gas lies somewhere in an interval of length around U. Here is taken to be very small, it turns out that the entropy doesn't depend strongly on the choice of for large N. This means that the above " area " must be extended to a shell of a thickness equal to an uncertainty in momentum, so the entropy is given by:

When modeling a car, for example, it is desirable to describe the center of each wheel with respect to the car's coordinate system, but then specify the shape of each wheel in separate local spaces centered about these points.

When discussing a tiling that is displayed in colors, to avoid ambiguity one needs to specify whether the colors are part of the tiling or just part of its illustration.

When scholars specify the pitch range of instruments with this kind of short octave, they write " C / E ", meaning that the lowest note is a C, played on a key that normally would sound E.

When the youth is sentenced to probation he or she is subject to certain conditions that may be imposed by the judge Under Section 55 ( 2 ) ( g ) the young offender may be told to “ reside at a place that the provincial director may specify ” This condition follows 2 other requirements that the young offender also needs to obey by a ) keep the peace and be of good behaviour ; and b ) appear by the youth justice court when required by the court to do so this stated in Section 55 ( 1 ).

For univariate algebraic equations these are also called roots, even if, properly speaking, one should say the solutions of the algebraic equation P = 0 are the roots of the polynomial P. When solving an equation, it is important to specify in which set the solutions are allowed.

When this is done, it is necessary to specify when classic Euler angles are referred, using an adjective like " proper " or similar.

When responding to a Likert questionnaire item, respondents specify their level of agreement or disagreement on a symmetric agree-disagree scale for a series of statements.

When a soldier is transferred to or from another unit, his or her orders specify an Effective Date Change Strength Accountability EDCSA pecifying the exact date that the soldier is counted as leaving one unit and officially entering the other.

When describing the angle of repose for a substance, always specify the method used.

When buying mustamakkara in the Tampere region it is customary to specify the amount of money to spend instead of weight, length or number of pieces.

When quoting an amount of substance, it is necessary to specify the entity involved, unless there is no risk of ambiguity.

When G is a discrete group, another way to specify the condition on X is that the universal cover Y of X is contractible.

When there is a need to specify the community at the mouth of the river, a specifier is usually used, such as " Bella Coola proper ", " downtown Bella Coola " or " the Bella Coola townsite ".

When a shell ( as with an output redirect ) or other program creates a file or directory, it may specify permissions to be granted, however, permissions that the file mode creation mask does not allow are removed.

2 When text should contain spaces, either specify these by using underscores or place the text between double quotes.