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When and confronted
When people are
confronted with unpleasant and potentially harmful stimuli such as foul odors
or tastes, PET-scans show increased bloodflow in the amygdala
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When confronted with the remains
of some
of the now extinct Australian marsupials, Aborigines would often identify
them as the bunyip
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When confronted by
a predator, the chimpanzee will react
with loud screams and use
any object it can against the threat
.
When confronted with the emerging scandal, Cleveland's instructions
to his campaign staff were: " Tell the truth
.
When Gambit awoke from his coma, he tracked
them down and
confronted Rogue about
what she saw in his mind
.
When he
confronted her again, they exchanged
a passionate conversation
.
When he
confronted Miller, Miller explained that the deception was necessary since companies at that time were very protective
of their talent and it was the only way he could get Romero
to initiate contact
with him
.
When Medea
confronted Jason about the engagement and cited all the help she had given him, he retorted that it was not she that he should thank, but Aphrodite who made Medea fall in love
with him
.
When they arrived, they were
confronted with Chinese assertions that the Japanese had invaded unlawfully, while the Japanese claimed they were acting
to keep peace in the area
.
When Reyn-Bardt was
confronted with the discovery
of the skull from Lindow Moss, he confessed
to the murder
of his wife
.
When confronted with accusations
of racial profiling the police claim that they don't participate in it
.

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When confronted with a choice between something certain and something uncertain, this Spanish proverb is used
to gravitate towards the first
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When confronted with the evidence that Solomon was
a free man, and told that he had
a wife and children, Epps cursed the man ( unknown
to him ) who had helped Solomon and threatened
to kill him if he discovered his identity
.
When James
confronted the woman, she ran
to her 2004 silver Mercedes, got behind the wheel, and tried
to run over James
.

However he did work
to reduce class anatagonism, for as Perry notes, "
When confronted with specific problems, he sought
to reduce tension between town and country, landlords and farmers, capital and labour, and warring religious sects in Britain and Ireland — in other words,
to create
a unifying synthesis
.
When he returned
to Paris, the Surrealists
confronted him about his apology for
a surrealist act
.
When the killers ( who had expected
to kill Moran and maybe two
or three
of his men ) were unexpectedly
confronted with seven men, they simply decided
to kill
them all and get out fast
.
When confronted about
a female ’ s right
to preach, she responded that “ all the children, both male and female, must be subject
to their parents ; and the woman, being second, must be subject
to her husband, who is the first ; but when the man is gone, the right
of government belongs
to the woman: So is the family
of Christ .”
When confronted by the Barons about the secret marriage that Henry had allowed
to happen,
a feud developed between the two
.

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When confronted with the minutes
of the 26 March 1940 meeting by Maxwell Fyfe, Raeder had
no response
.
When he was
confronted with the potential charge
of federal bank fraud, he revealed he had been directed by Committee deputy director Jeb Magruder and finance director Maurice Stans
to give the money
to G
. Gordon Liddy
.
When the forces
of Mordor finally broke the main gate, Gandalf alone on Shadowfax
confronted the Witch-king
of Angmar, Lord
of the Nazgûl
.
When William marched north and the two armies
confronted one another the kings opted
to talk rather than fight
.

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When confronted by Adams, Morbius objects, pointing out that there are
no Krell still alive
.
When and with
When I went for my interview
with the director
I saw why
.
When his eyes began
to focus, he saw Jess charging at him
with a pitchfork
.
When our eyes met the air was filled
with an unuttered message
of `` Me, too ''
.
When he started school at the age
of five-and-a-half, he could not understand why the alphabet begins
with the letter A, instead
of C, as in the scale
.
When the Revolution broke out, he, along
with Jefferson and Jay, abandoned his career at the bar,
with considerable financial sacrifice
.
When I try
to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is
of critical significance,
I come up
with the following ideas, which
I shall express very briefly here and revert
to in
a later essay
.
When words can be used in
a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike
with the force
of sights and sounds, when tones
of sound and colors
of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities
with an undeniable force
of data in and
of themselves, compelling the observer into
an attitude
of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door
of consciousness and clamors for entrance
.
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 her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned
to write
with her left hand
.
When someone in the audience rose and asked how does it feel
to be
a celebrity, Carl said, `` A celebrity is
a fellow who eats celery
with celerity ''
.
When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court
of Directors
no permission
to live in India, coupled
with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent
to Asia
to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever
.
When Harold Arlen returned
to California in the winter
of 1944, it was
to take up again
a collaboration
with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before
.
When the troupe traveled
to New York
to participate in
a one-act-play competition -- and won -- Mercer, instead
of returning
with the rest
of the company in triumph, remained in New York
.
When Prudence and Blackberry were too young
to be trusted in the dining room, they were tied
to the radiator
with their leashes, and they would cry
.
When we consider the disorganized state
of the world community, and the legacy
of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles
of men needs
to be prosecuted
with increasing vigor and skill
.
When these fields are surveyed together, important patterns
of relationship emerge indicating
a vast community
of reciprocal influence,
a continuity
of thought and expression including many traditions, primarily literary, religious, and philosophical, but frequently including contact
with the fine arts and even,
to some extent,
with science
.
When Nan Patterson,
a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in
a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in
a hansom cab
with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab
to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot
himself although experts said he could not
have done so
.
When the victory cheer went up this officer found
himself still mounted,
with his horse pressed broadside against Cleburne's log parapet in
a tangled group
of infantrymen
.
When the negotiations began, his quarrel
with the king
of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had
no intention
of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come
to pay the troops who, under Charles
of Valois, the papal vicar
of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies
.
When Sir Edward Greville enclosed the town commons on the Bancroft, Quiney and
others leveled his hedges on January 21, 1600/1, and were charged
with riot by Sir Edward
.
When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted
with him for half
an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most
of that night, despairing
of what he must expect on the Continent
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