When he had the mishap of breaking his spectacles, his ecumenical colleagues insisted on providing him with new ones.

# The breaking point: When a subject begins to listen to the deprogrammer ; when reality begins to take precedence over ideology.

When the Æsir exclaimed that they were ready, Fenrir shook himself, knocked the fetter to ground, strained hard, and kicking with his feet, snapped the fetter – breaking it into pieces that flew far into the distance.

When the thieves and the assassin catch each other breaking into Shiragami's laboratory, a gunfight ensues.

When knotted rope is strained to its breaking point, it almost always fails at the knot or close to it, unless it is defective or damaged elsewhere.

When a tree stump or other obstruction such as a rock is encountered, the ploughshare is thrown upwards, clear of the obstacle, to avoid breaking the plough's harness or linkage ; ploughing can be continued when the weight is returned to the earth after the obstacle is passed.

When the stress nearly led to his program breaking down, Captain Janeway had his memories of these events deleted.

When one of her curses went in an unanticipated direction, the breaking of a curse stripped her of her powers and made her mortal again.

When the M18A1 is detonated, the explosion drives the matrix forward, out of the mine at a velocity of, at the same time breaking it into individual fragments.

When it became clear that Pope Clement VII would not annul the marriage, the breaking of the power of the Catholic Church in England began.

When the master returns, they claim that in sorrow for breaking his artwork, they tried to kill themselves by eating the aconite.

When the Federal Republic established diplomatic relations with Israel in 1965, the Arab states countered by breaking off relations with the Federal Republic and establishing relations with the GDR.

When a block is allocated, the allocator will start with the smallest sufficiently large block to avoid needlessly breaking blocks.

When a larger attack was made at night two days later the iconoclasts had provided themselves with a tree trunk as a battering ram, and finally succeeded in breaking through the doors.

When water levels became so low that peat and muck were at the surface, the bacteria interacted with much higher levels of oxygen in the air, rapidly breaking down the soil.

When a differential equation can be expressed in linear form, it is particularly easy to solve by breaking the equation up into smaller pieces, solving each of those pieces, and summing the solutions.

When Federico Faggin designed the MCS-4 family, he also christened the chips with distinct names: 4001, 4002, 4003, and 4004, breaking away from the numbering scheme used by Intel at that time which would have required the names 1302, 1105, 1507, and 1202 respectively.

When combined with an aborted UK tour with The Lothringers, the band was close to breaking up.

When personal and creative tensions within the group reached breaking point in late 1980 Marsh and Ware left the band, ceding the Human League name to Oakey.

When the hammer connects with the striking end of the chisel, its energy is transferred down the length and concentrates on a single point on the surface of the block, breaking the stone.

When dirturbed it prefers to run erratically, breaking into rapid, noisy flight only if pressed.

When breaking news stories warrant, Today will broadcast a live West Coast edition.

When they performed at Ullevi stadium in Gothenburg on August 7, 2004 during the GT25, 58, 984 fans watched the concert live, breaking the record set by Bruce Springsteen, and the performance was later broadcast on TV4.

When he accidentally fell from the stage, breaking bottles of medicine as he fell, people laughed.

When Hi and Ed say that they are breaking up, he advises them to sleep on it.

When strong hands buy, they are able to buy more, and they do it even in the face of bearish news reports.

When the news spread that Agrippina had died, the Roman army, senate and various people sent him letters of congratulations that he had been saved from his mother's plots.

When news of the rebellion reached him, Suetonius hurried along Watling Street through hostile territory to Londinium.

When the news became certain, the French press insisted that the defeat was the result both of an overwhelmingly large British force and unspecified " traitors.

When news of this threatens to ruin the President's chances for re-election, the Hubbards conspire to steal the election.

When this news reached England, it confirmed Kidd's reputation as a pirate, and various naval commanders were ordered to " pursue and seize the said Kidd and his accomplices " for the " notorious piracies " they had committed.

When the news of the victory is brought to David, he does not rejoice, but is instead shaken with grief: " O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

When news arrived of Cerialis ' victory over Civilis, Mucianus tactfully dissuaded Domitian from pursuing further military endeavours.

When news came that the local vicar had drowned while trying to save victims of the shipwreck, Squire Cobtree offered the post to Christopher Syn.

When news of his death reached Paris Eugene decided to flee to Austria in the hope of taking over his brother's command.

When news reached Dublin of the capture of the Aud and the arrest of Casement, Nathan conferred with the Lord Lieutenant, Lord Wimborne.

When these news reached Silvanus, he demanded that the spoil be sent to him.

When news arrives that the Mikado will be visiting the town, Ko-Ko assumes that he is coming to ascertain whether Ko-Ko has carried out the executions.

When news of his death at the Council of Constance in 1415 arrived, disturbances broke out, directed primarily against the clergy, and especially against the monks.

When budgets are cut, editors may sacrifice reporters in distant news bureaus, reduce the number of staff assigned to low-income areas, or wipe entire communities from the publication's zone of interest.

When the news of Ribbentrop's remarks was leaked to the Polish press despite Colonel Beck's order to the censors on 27 March, it caused anti-German riots in Poland with the local N. S. D. A. P headquarters in the ethnically mixed town of Lininco destroyed by a mob.

When this news of his family ’ s execution reaches him, Macduff is stricken with grief and vows revenge.

When Macduff learns of the murders of his wife and child, Malcolm consoles him unsympathetically with encouragement to take the news in “ manly ” fashion and use it to fuel his hatred of Macbeth.

When news customers share common beliefs, profit-maximizing media outlets find it optimal to select and / or frame stories in order to pander to those beliefs.

When, for example, television producers " pre-interview " participants in news and public affairs programs, to insure that they will speak in simple, attention-grabbing terms, and when the search for viewers leads to an emphasis on the sensational and the spectacular, people with complex or nuanced views are not allowed a hearing.

When a user posts to one news server, the message is stored locally.

When news of the natural wonders of the Yellowstone were first promulgated, the land was part of a federally governed territory.

When Admiral Bokhari heard the news, a strong and powerful protest was launched against the Prime minister and the silent cold war with the admiral came to end with Prime minister approving the relieving papers of Admiral Bokhari the next morning.

When local area networks became widespread, it was natural that administrators and users would desire remote access to the news spool, and NNTP, the Network News Transfer Protocol, was developed to serve that need.

When she received the news, his mother attempted to contain her sorrow by writing down her feelings in a notebook her husband had been using to take notes on a relativity textbook he had been reading.