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 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 a user changes to pure darknet operation, Freenet becomes very difficult to detect from the outside.

When studied carefully, it has not been impossible to detect an ongoing viral infection in the muscles.

When they enter the barrier, the ship is damaged and they detect a settlement with 8, 000 people who are mostly human.

When he added cylindrical reflectors behind his dipole antennas, Hertz could detect radio waves about 20 metres from the transmitter in his laboratory.

When we observe an illuminated surface, we detect the average energy of the light at the surface ; thus the brightness of a given point on a surface which has been illuminated by a set of random scatterers with a single frequency, is constant over time, but varies randomly from point to point, i. e. it is a speckle pattern.

When lyrebirds detect potential danger they will pause and scan their surroundings, then give an alarm call.

When any of these tests are positive, CT scanning of the adrenal gland and MRI of the pituitary gland are performed to detect the presence of any adrenal or pituitary adenomas or incidentalomas ( the incidental discovery of harmless lesions ).

When making sophisticated animated films, such as Avatar, zentai unitards are used to detect an actors movements.

" When asked if he had " China envy " during a Fresh Dialogues interview, Friedman replied, " You detect the envy of someone who wants his own government to act democratically with the same effectiveness that China can do autocratically.

When thermalling, the sensor will detect acceleration ( gravity plus centrifugal ) above 1 g and tell the relative netto variometer to stop subtracting the sailplane's wing load-adjusted polar sink rate for the duration.

When Allied troops were halted near Anzio, Italy during the spring of 1944, personal portable radios were strictly prohibited as the Germans had radio detecting equipment that could detect the local oscillator signal of superheterodyne receivers.

When enough time has passed, many sites have undergone more than one change, but it is impossible to detect more than one.

When foraging, their ability to detect predators is increased in larger groups, and each animal needs to spend less time in vigilance.

When practicing he did not move from a location on the court unless he made at least ten of 13 shots, and could detect whether a basket was an inch too low from the regulation ten feet.

When measuring hearing thresholds it is always easier for the subject to follow a tone that is audible and decreasing in amplitude than to detect a tone that was previously inaudible.

When enabled, the CTCSS radio circuit, instead of opening the receive audio for any signal, causes the two-way radio receiver's audio to open only in the presence of the normal RF signal AND the correct sub-audible audio tone ( sub-audible meaning that the receiver circuitry can detect it, but is not apparent to the users in the audio output ).

When a window has changed or when its position on the screen has changed, the window manager will detect this and may re-stack all windows, requiring that each window redraw itself, and pass its new appearance along to the window manager before it is drawn.

When a program issued an int 21h call to access MS-DOS, the call would go first to the 32-bit file system manager, which would attempt to detect this sort of patching.

When optical mice, which use image sensors to detect movement, were first introduced into the market, they required special mousepads with optical patterns printed on them.

When a face is upside down, the configural processing cannot take place, and so minor differences are more difficult to detect.

When interviewed about the Monica Lewinsky scandal, he mentioned that he could detect that former President Bill Clinton was lying because he used distancing language.

When in the US Paul Wild spent hours with Margaret's son, Tom Haddock, also a research scientist, discussing general relativity, the origin of inertia, the clever way the Soviet scientists Landau and Lifshitz developed their arguments on field theory, and then-current experiments such as the Gravity Probe B satellite to detect the general relativistic Lense-Thirring frame-dragging effect from the Earth's spin.

When local detection is used, a computer in a network is not required to communicate with the entire network in order to detect an error — the error can be detected by having each computer communicate only with its nearest neighbors.

When the sensors detect the event being monitored ( heat, pressure ), the event is reported to one of the base stations, which then takes appropriate action ( e. g., send a message on the internet or to a satellite ).