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 the particles are in great motion, they produce a Doppler shift for measuring wind speed in the laser light, which is used to calculate the speed of the particles, and therefore the air around the anemometer.

When the signal drive to the amplifier is increased, the output also increases until a point is reached where some part of the amplifier becomes saturated and cannot produce any more output ; this is called clipping, and results in distortion.

When the burner is regulated to produce a hot, blue flame it can be nearly invisible against some backgrounds.

When compared with Zebu bulls, Canchim bulls produce the same number of calves, but heavier and of superior quality.

When neutrons are scattered from hydrogen-containing materials, they produce diffraction patterns with high noise levels.

When it was re-staged in 1923 in a more professional production, the play provoked a theatre riot ( initiated by André Breton ) that heralded the split within the movement that was to produce Surrealism.

When American physicist Harvey Einbinder detailed its failings in his 1964 book, The Myth of the Britannica, the encyclopaedia was provoked to produce the 15th edition, which required 10 years of work.

When the string vibrates, the shape of the crystal is distorted, and the stresses associated with this change produce tiny voltages across the crystal that can be amplified and manipulated.

When John Beck sold the King Kong vs. Prometheus script to Toho ( which became King Kong vs. Godzilla ), he was given exclusive rights to produce a version of the film for release in non-Asian territories.

The Dragon debuted in June 1976, and Gygax commented on its success years later: " When I decided that The Strategic Review was not the right vehicle, hired Tim Kask as a magazine editor for Tactical Studies Rules, and named the new publication he was to produce The Dragon, I thought we would eventually have a great periodical to serve gaming enthusiasts worldwide ... At no time did I ever contemplate so great a success or so long a lifespan.

When considering human-powered equipment, a healthy human can produce about 1. 2 hp briefly ( see orders of magnitude ) and sustain about 0. 1 hp indefinitely ; trained athletes can manage up to about 2. 5 hp briefly

When used in anesthesia to produce and maintain unconsciousness, " sleep " is metaphorical as there are no regular sleep stages or cyclical natural states ; patients rarely recover from anesthesia feeling refreshed and with renewed energy.

When this insulation is insufficient to maintain body temperature, they may resort to shivering -- rapid muscle contractions that quickly use up ATP, thus stimulating cellular metabolism to replace it and consequently produce more heat.

" When bacteria or other microbes are engulfed by phagocytes, the enzyme NADPH oxidase assembles in the membrane and begins to produce reactive oxygen species ( ROS ) that help kill bacteria.

When using delayed evaluation, an expression is not evaluated as soon as it gets bound to a variable, but when the evaluator is forced to produce the expression's value.

When she retired from acting in 1933, Pickford continued to produce films for United Artists, and she and Chaplin remained partners in the company for decades.

When the vote was taken, enough of the majority refrained from voting to produce a tie and give Calhoun his longed-for " vengeance.

When exposed to ultraviolet light, natural ergosterols in mushrooms produce vitamin D < sub > 2 </ sub >, a process now exploited for the functional food retail market.

When Le Guin finally requested that Miyazaki produce an anime adaptation of her work, he refused, because he had lost the desire to do so.

When full scale production begins in 2013 this plant will produce an estimated 20 % of the global nickel supply.

When interacting with a free radical, some antioxidants produce a different free radical compound that is less dangerous or more dangerous than the previous compound.

It is also possible to produce polarised light rays using a combination of reflection and refraction: When a refracted ray and the reflected ray form a right angle, the reflected ray has the property of " plane polarization ".

When rock producer Robert " Mutt " Lange heard Twain's original songs and singing from her debut album, he offered to produce and write songs with her.

: When an inefficient producer sends the merchandise it produces best to a country able to produce it more efficiently, both countries benefit.

When Richard H. Geoghegan pointed out that Steinhaus's translation was in very poor English throughout, Zamenhof destroyed his remaining copies and engaged Geoghegan to produce a fresh translation.