When attempting to draw a complicated shape such as a human figure, it is helpful at first to represent the form with a set of primitive shapes.

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 attempting to increase processing power, Apple was hampered by the overheating problems of the 68040 ; this resulted in the 100-series PowerBook being stuck with the aging 68030 which could not compete with newer-generation Intel 80486-based PC laptops introduced in 1994.

When the original pairing tries to find out why Lucky does not put down his load ( at least not unless his master is prevailing on him to do something else ), Pozzo explains that Lucky is attempting to mollify him to prevent him from selling him.

When attempting to tie a reef knot, it is easy to produce a granny knot accidentally.

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

When shared between threads, however, even simple data structures become prone to race hazards if they require more than one CPU instruction to update: two threads may end up attempting to update the data structure at the same time and find it unexpectedly changing underfoot.

When injured or threatened, the Virginia opossum is well known for attempting to fake death or " play possum ", as seen in this photo.

When analyzing " supertrees " ( datasets incorporating as many taxa of a suspected clade as possible ), it may become unavoidable to introduce character definitions that are imprecise, as otherwise the characters might not apply at all to a large number of taxa ; to continue with the " wings " example, the presence of wings would hardly be a useful character if attempting a phylogeny of all Metazoa, as most of these don't have wings at all.

When Pliny the Younger was 18, his uncle Pliny died attempting to rescue victims of the Vesuvius eruption, and the terms of the Elder Pliny's will passed his estate to his nephew.

When Ruijin became exposed to KMT attack, Party leaders faced the choice of either remaining and perishing or of abandoning the base area and attempting to break through the enemy encirclement.

When attempting to write down these generalizations, one should think of the morphisms in the preadditive category as the " elements " of the " generalized ring ".

When he was 14, he was attempting to steal a cement mixer from a construction site when it fell, crushing his toes ; this injury left him with a permanent limp.

When Richards and three other editors were arrested at the beginning of 1945 for attempting " to undermine the affections of members of His Majesty's Forces.

When Dunya tells him she could never love him ( after attempting to shoot him ) he lets her go and commits suicide.

When attempting to define what something is, it is often helpful to define what something is not.

When attempting address translation of a given logical address, the processor reads the 64-bit segment descriptor structure from either the Global Descriptor Table when TI = 0 or the Local Descriptor Table when TI = 1.

When attempting to detect deceit from a familiar person or relational partner, a large amount of information about the partner is brought to mind.

When the term " racialism " is used, this is more commonly people describing themselves, or attempting a more value-neutral terminology which is assumed to be more appropriate for ( scientifically ) objective communication or analysis.

When attempting to decipher the origin of bulimia nervosa in a cognitive context, Fairburn and et al .’ s cognitive behavioral model is often considered the golden standard.

When a rider has been hung up, they face the extremely dangerous task of trying to free the rider, with one team member going to the bull's head and the other attempting to release the rider.

When approached by a predator of either its nest or itself, divers sometimes attack the predator by rushing at it and attempting to impale it through the abdomen or the back of the head or neck.

When Kenneth MacDonald died in 2001, a storyline involving Mike's imprisonment for attempting to embezzle the brewery was written, and cafe owner Sid took over as pub landlord.

When a mobile is " searching ", it is attempting to find pilot signals on the network by tuning to particular radio frequencies, and performing a cross-correlation across all possible PN phases.

When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

When the victory cheer went up this officer found himself still mounted, with his horse pressed broadside against Cleburne's log parapet in a tangled group of infantrymen.

When Joe identified himself, he nodded, unsmiling, and ushered him into a sedate living room.

When everything had been done, Rector went back to his desk to occupy himself with his monthly report until three o'clock.

When Stravinsky shaped his purpose to the shifting scenes of many cultures, many salons, many dialectics, many personalities, he tried to refashion himself into a stylist of many styles, determined by many disparate cultures.

When Dag Hammarskjold was negotiating the Middle East peace after Israel's 1956 invasion of Egypt, he soon found himself speaking the mysterious phrases of Cairo, a language as anarchic as Casey Stengel's.

When Bobbie Evans smashed up his car, the Jaguar his wife Linda had given him for his last birthday, and himself quite thoroughly with it, driving back from an afternoon's golf at Oakmont, it seemed to mark the end of a long, miswritten chapter in the social life of the community.

When Mercer looked on helplessly, the half-man twisted over on his side, his pink dusty back turned to Mercer, and wept hoarsely and quietly to himself.

When he found out the truth he sent his sister, Artemis, to kill Coronis ( in other stories, Apollo himself had killed Coronis ).

When the eggs hatch, he transports the tadpoles on his back, stuck there by a mucous secretion, to a temporary pool where he dips himself into the water and the tadpoles drop off.

When Coleridge travelled to Chamonix, he declaimed, in defiance of Shelley, who had signed himself " Atheos " in the guestbook of the Hotel de Londres near Montenvers, " Who would be, who could be an atheist in this valley of wonders ".

When the plague strikes, he finds himself trapped in a city with which he feels he has no connection.

When his corps commander, Maj. Gen. John F. Reynolds, was killed very early in the fighting, Doubleday found himself in command of the corps.

When he comes to his senses, covered in blood, and realizes what he has done, with diminished honor he decides that he prefers to kill himself rather than to live in shame.

When Sultan Murad V began to show signs of paranoia, madness and continuous fainting and vomiting even on the day of his coronation and threw himself into a pool yelling at his guards to protect his life, they were afraid the public would become outraged and revolt to bring the former Sultan back.

When Andersson was ten he got his own piano, and taught himself to play.

When Peter the Great went to Holland in 1716 ( he was in Holland before in 1697 to instruct himself in maritime affairs ), he also took lessons from Boerhaave.

When a man distinguished himself by deeds of valour, or any form of meritorious conduct, he was often decorated by a chief by being presented with the feathers of this bird.

When his quest to keep the team in Milwaukee finally failed after the 1965 season, he changed the group's name to Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc., after the minor league baseball team he grew up watching, and devoted himself to returning Major League Baseball to Milwaukee.

When Heracles had pulled Theseus first from his chair, some of his thigh stuck to it ( this explains the supposedly lean thighs of Athenians ), but the earth shook at the attempt to liberate Pirithous, whose desire to have the wife of a god for himself was so insulting he was doomed to stay behind.

When asked for a picture of himself, he usually offered a photograph of a cat instead.

When Cyril ’ s bishop Maximus died Cyril was appointed bishop by Acasius of Caesaria, who was himself an Arian and viewed Cyril as a theological ally.

When Doonesbury ran the names of soldiers who had died in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, conservative commentators accused Trudeau of using the American dead to make a profit for himself, and again demanded that the strip be removed from newspapers.

When the work was done, the artist, waving his wings, found himself buoyed upward and hung suspended, poising himself on the beaten air.