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 attempting it himself later in the novel, Paul says, " We will see now whether I'm the Kwisatz Haderach who can survive the test that the Reverend Mothers have survived.

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 one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.

When the boot loader detected a CP / M floppy, the Aster would reconfigure its internal memory architecture on the fly to optimally support CP / M with 60 KB free RAM for programs ( TPA ) and an 80 x 25 display.

When Estragon finally succeeds in removing his boot, he looks and feels inside but finds nothing.

" When Roger Blin asked him who or what Godot stood for, Beckett replied that it suggested itself to him by the slang word for boot in French, godillot, godasse because feet play such a prominent role in the play.

When moving from one mode to the other the state of the machine is lost from memory, and requires a sometimes lengthy " boot " process to return the machine to the " on " state.

When he touched the horse's skull with his boot a snake slithered from the skull and bit him.

When summer came, Mathew Knowles established a " boot camp " to train them in dance and vocal lessons.

When the horse stops near a dwelling, Trinity gets up, pulls on his boots, gets stung by a scorpion hiding in the boot but is clearly insusceptible to the venom then he drags his Colt 45 in holster and walks inside.

When Nikita Khrushchev came to power, the boot became charged politically in the context of the " Battle for Modesty " campaign, where rubber footwear was proclaimed as " socialism style " ( thus fashionable ), while leather, which was obviously more expensive, was derided as " capitalism style " ( thus unfashionable ).

When a ski boot is put in the ski binding, the brake pivots under the downward pressure and runs parallel with the ski allowing free movement.

When the boot comes out of the ski, the brakes spring out perpendicular to the ski and stop the ski from sliding.

When the boot was rotated forward, the slot on the toe eventually rose above the metal pyramid, allowing the toe to release from the ski.

When he touched the horse's skull with his boot a snake slithered from the skull and bit him.

* When the Apple II Plus was introduced, it included the ability to scan each expansion slot ( working downward from slot 7 to slot 1 ) for an expansion card ROM with additional boot code, and automatically call it.

When Krakoa captured the original X-Men, it was Moira's students whom Charles went to first — not the second team of Wolverine, Storm, Banshee, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Thunderbird and Sunfire as it was originally believed — putting them through the psionic equivalent of boot camp and allowing them to believe they were being trained over months as X-Men.

When operating systems were distributed on compact discs, either a boot floppy or the CD itself would boot specifically, and only, to install onto a hard drive.

When the chains were removed the top half of the spur on Falklands's right boot was broken off, the damage can be seen to this day.

When a new house was built, the Polish homeowner would attract one of the domovye by placing a piece of bread down before the stove was put in, and the Russian one would coerce the old house's domovoi to move with the family by offering an old boot as a hiding place.

When the fires died away, a body was found inside the boot of a car with a face so charred it was impossible to determine the identity of the man ; the numberplate of the car was intact, however, and traced to an Alfred Arthur Rouse.

When boot was published, it was criticized for being elitist in its approach to product reviews, and for the " price is no object " philosophy of its editors.

When boot relaunched as Maximum PC, it dropped much of the elitist attitude and focused on being accessible to a wider array of PC users and gamers.

When used in military ranks, senior officers, and officers of all ranks in cavalry and other formerly mounted units of some armies, wear a form of spur in certain orders of dress which is known as the box spur, having no spur strap but a long metal prong opposite the neck, extending between the arms of the heel band, which is inserted into a specially fitted recess or " box " in the base of the boot heel.

When harvesting switchgrass for hay, the first cutting occurs at the late boot stage – around mid-June.