When belaying for a partner who is significantly heavier, it is advisable for the belayer to create an anchor point for him-or herself before allowing the climber to lead a route.

When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.

When he saw the expression in her eyes, he knew he couldn't send them on.

When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

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 they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.

Joyce went on, `` When we'd finished, Lou -- Mr. Thor -- asked me to stay a little longer.

When we opened the door again for business and switched on the lights she said:

When he sank on his knees, they had allowed him to char without administering the stroke of mercy.

When he got closer to the tree, Matsuo noted the wild look on his face.

When he rolled on the left side, propping on his left elbow, Matsuo seized his hair and pulled him back over.

When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When you pass a church on an Irish bus, all the hands flurry in the sign of the cross.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When combined with the metaphysical notion that pure forms of this universe are best appreciated when least embodied in a material substratum, it becomes clear that while earth will be dross on a scale of material-formal ratios, celestial bodies will be of a subtle, quickened, ethereal existence, in whose embodiment pure form will be the dominant component and matter will be absent or remain subsidiary.

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

Besides doing a single song, `` When The Sun Comes Out '', they worked on the ambitious American-Negro Suite, for voices and piano, as well as songs for films.

When I returned to make my report, the Hetman did not remember having sent me on the secret mission.

When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.

When the young biologist, Dr. Ballard, began to show interest in our daughter Elizabeth, this induced a corresponding interest, on our part, in him.

When he turns briefly to literary style, in the Third Book, he again looks to the effect on the audience.

When Bud and Lou filmed The Abbott and Costello Show for television, they hired Joe Besser to play Oswald " Stinky " Davis, a bratty, loudmouthed child dressed in an oversized Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit, shorts, and a flat top hat with overhanging brim.

When presented with a potential predator, they seek cover in thick vegetation, or drop from an overhanging branch into water.

When the convention rejected a pro-proviso plank and selected Lewis Cass as the nominee, the Barnburners again bolted and were the nucleus of forming the Free Soil Party.

When Barbara Peache, who had been away, returned early on 17 December, she found the doors and windows bolted, and a smell of escaping gas.

When Rickey refused, Hafey bolted from St. Louis ' spring training camp.

When it tried to disenfranchise those locals ' members at the UGW's 1914 convention, those locals, representing two thirds of the union's membership, bolted to form the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.

When anti-colonialism swept across Africa and agitation began for independence, Belgium bolted from the colonies in a hurry.

When it tried to disenfranchise those locals ' members at the UGW's 1914 convention, those locals, representing two thirds of the union's membership, bolted to form the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.

When Alex returns home, he remains unconvinced of her story, but makes sure the fireplace is bolted securely shut to reassure her.

; Out-of-order delivery: When a collection of related packets is routed through a network, different packets may take different routes, each resulting in a different delay.

When the Minaeans took control of the caravan routes in the 4th century BCE, however, Hadramaut became one of its confederates, probably because of commercial interests.

When his calculations showed that the manholes on telephone routes were sufficiently close together to be able to insert the loading coils without the expense of either having to dig up the route or lay in new cables he changed to this new plan.

When multiple drivers are used in a system, a " filter network ", called a crossover, separates the incoming signal into different frequency ranges and routes them to the appropriate driver.

When long distance aviation or nautical routes are drawn on a flat map ( for instance, the Mercator projection ), they often look curved.

When opened it controlled 280 multiple-aspect signals and 243 motor-worked points on of routes around Bristol, the largest area controlled by a single signal box on British Rail at the time.

When the Budd RDC was developed following World War II, it was adopted for many secondary passenger routes in the United States ( especially on the Boston and Maine Railroad ) and Canada.

When the Derby and Nottingham Canals were completed by Jessop and Benjamin Outram in 1796, they provided direct routes to the important textile centres of Derby and Nottingham.

When Northwest Indiana Regional Bus Authority ( RBA ) expanded the Hammond Transit System into EasyGo Lake Transit service, one of its new routes included Calumet Avenue in northern Dyer, within walking distance of the Amtrak station.

When Frederick, Maryland began being settled in 1745, trade routes between Frederick and Baltimore emerged.

When Admiral Dudley Pound enquired about aerial assets in trade and commerce defence, Chief of the Air Staff Cyril Newall, replied that there was not enough " jam " to go around and stated it was more advisable to risk losses on trade routes than weaken the RAF's ability to protect Britain from air attack and bomb its enemies.

When the zone was extended westward in February 2007, Park Lane was designated as one of the " free through routes ", on which vehicles could cross the zone during its hours of operation without paying the charge.

When these new drug routes were uncovered by the authorities, West Africa was chosen as a stop-over.

# When a node receives distance tables from its neighbors, it calculates the shortest routes to all other nodes and updates its own table to reflect any changes.

When ducklings mature into flight-capable juveniles, they learn about and remember their traditional migratory routes ( unless they are born and raised in captivity ).

When Ceuta was captured by the Portuguese, the camel caravans that were part of the overland trade routes began to use Tangier as their new destination.

When Route 231 was being built, Hawley's Lake Park lost all hope of being repaired and restored to its former glory: the routes northern and southern terminus were run directly through the estate.

When the 500-series county routes were established in New Jersey in the 1950s, what is now Route 147 became a part of County Route 585, a route running from Lower Township north to Absecon.

When the 500-series county routes were established in the 1950s, this road became a part of County Route 585, a route that ran from Route 109 ( then a part of U. S. Route 9 ) in Lower Township north to U. S. Route 30 and Route 157 in Absecon.

When the pre-War airport, a flying boat facility on Darrell's Island, closed in 1948, Bermuda's air routes were taken over by land planes operating through the airfield, which by then was operated by the United States Air Force, as Kindley Air Force Base.

When initially opened it was capable of handling 1, 000 routes.

When asked to draw a route on a map, people tend to draw routes closer to friends they pass along the way and further away from strangers.

When Liu sent his general Chen Shi to sever the supply routes to the city, Xu struck the enemy head-on.

When the officers returned to Suite 603 at 2: 30 am on January 7, they found: street maps of Manila with routes plotting the papal motorcade, a rosary, a photograph of the pontiff, bibles, crucifixes, papal confessions, and priest clothing, including robes and collars.

When the corporation took over the Company in 1947, there were 242 buses in operation on 23 routes and these buses carried 238, 000 passengers per day.