When performed ' in token ' this involves the athame ( representing the masculine principle ) descending into the chalice ( representing the feminine ).

When descending a tree headfirst, the red panda rotates its ankle to control its descent, one of the few climbing species to do so.

When descending to deeper water, they hold their wings up.

When two ( or more ) identical pieces can move to the same square, the moving piece is uniquely identified by specifying the piece's letter, followed by ( in descending order of preference ):

When Orellana went down the river in search of gold, descending from the Andes ( in 1541 ), the river was still called Rio Grande, Mar Dulce or Rio de Canela ( Cinnamon ), because of the great trees of cinnamon located there.

When an aircraft is in cruise for example, lift does oppose gravity, but occurs at an angle when climbing, descending or banking.

When evening arrives, geladas exhibit more social activities before descending to the cliffs to sleep.

When hunting in the trees, it is capable of walking atop horizontal branches and jumping upwards towards the crown, then descending in a glide from the crown to the ground.

When the A71 peaks at the top of the valley, it goes under the M74 at Jct 8 ( a junction known locally as Canderside Toll ), before turning towards the village of Stonehouse, where a bypass takes traffic to the north of the narrow village roads, before descending into the Avon valley and into Strathaven.

When descending boat enters each lock chanber, the water level rises slightly and the excess overflows via a channel at the side of each lock which runs into the main overflow.

When Governor Lachlan Macquarie visited Stanwell Park he remarked in 1822 that: " On our arrival at the summit of the mountain, we were gratified with a very magnificent bird's eye view of the ocean, the 5 Islands, and of the greater part of the low country of Illawarra ... After feasting our eyes with this grand prospect, we commenced descending the mountain ... The whole face ... is clothed with the largest and finest forest trees I have ever seen in the colony.

When descending the steep northern slope of Eagle Summit on the Fairbanks – Whitehorse route, many mushers wrap their sled runners in chains to increase friction and slow the plunge.

When the trend is up and the price stays in the space above an ascending angle without breaking below it, the market is strong ; when the trend is down and the price remains below a descending angle without breaking above it, the market is weak.

" When Kate saw the tomahawk descending, she raised a beautiful white arm to ward off the blow, which, falling upon the arm, nearly severed it in twain ; a second blow did the work-one quiver, and the lovely life went out.

When Macbeth returns to the witches later in the play, they show him an apparition of the murdered Banquo, along with eight kings of his family, descending through Fleance.

These were mournful arias sung over a descending bass line and they had a great influence on Henry Purcell, whose " When I am laid in earth " from Dido and Aeneas is probably the most celebrated example of the form.

When the descending piston first exposes the exhaust port on the cylinder wall, the exhaust flows out powerfully due to its own pressure without assistance from the expansion chamber and so the diameter / area over the length of the first portion of the pipe is constant or near constant with a divergence of 0 to 2 degrees which preserves wave energy.

When He cometh descending from heaven On the cloud that He writes in His Word I'll be joyfully carried to meet Him On the wings of that great speckled bird.

When the results of this theory were compared with the quantity of water actually discharged, Newton concluded that the velocity with which the water issued from the orifice was equal to that which a falling body would receive by descending through half the height of water in the reservoir.

When the brakeman was also satisfied that everything was ready at the top, he released the brake and the descending waggons were pushed onto the plane.

When the permutation on n − 1 items is an even permutation ( as is true for the first, third, etc., permutations in the sequence ) then the number n is placed in all possible positions in descending order, from n down to 1 ; when the permutation on n − 1 items is odd, the number n is placed in all the possible positions in ascending order.

When descending, skiers zig-zag down from the top until they reach the minor lake Tromsdalsvannet ( nor.

When on the range it proceeds the fruit growing areas of Bilpin and Berambing, before climbing and descending Mount Tomah, passing by the Mount Tomah Botanic Gardens.

When his head came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When she appeared, two or three of the little girls jumped up and down, yelling, `` Goody, goody ''.

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 all else fails, it is argued that open sessions slow down governmental operations.

When he was in the war, he was in Law or Supplies or something like that, and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals -- just like the one we sent in for Trig -- and go away with a real glow.

When the knife went into his chest, he went down at once.

When Marsh called to his aide and the pair rode off down the River Road where the gentians burned blue, Juanita was shaken and trying not to cry.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

When a hole is to be bored to a predetermined depth, mark the depth on the side of the stock, then run the bit down so that it is even with the mark.

When this linear draft is completed, I dust it down to a faint image.

When the Yalta Conference opened, the American policy of postponing all discussion of Russia's western boundaries until the peace conference had broken down.

When they were refused entrance to his brother's house nearby, they smashed down the door, broke the window, and threw lighted clothes wet with kerosene into the room.

When Hudson had finished, the `` town meeting '' broke down into a general, wordy argument.

When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

When the Plymouth neared, it veered toward him and seemed about to run him down.

When Robinson tried to stretch his blow into a triple, he was cut down in a close play at third, Tuttle to Andy Carey.

When that monk came down and approached him with a respectful salutation, he asked: `` Where art thou from ''??

When she came back Eugenia was sitting at the kitchen table with a pencil and envelope jotting down words and figures.

When we were fighting, a few of our orthodox people were lying down in the roads so we could not pass.

When the car, with Susan's hands waving wildly from the rear window, disappeared down the driveway, Lucy stood looking after its pale dust.

When he at last did go to his room, he couldn't sleep and instead paced up and down before his little image of Acala, thinking first of Charlotte's tale of the man at Ryusenji, then of his biwa and the invisible Pacific waters.

When Zeus struck down Apollo's son Asclepius with a lightning bolt for resurrecting Hippolytus from the dead ( transgressing Themis by stealing Hades's subjects ), Apollo in revenge killed the Cyclopes, who had fashioned the bolt for Zeus.

When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad.

" When he sits down to write ," Emerson wrote, " all his genius leaves him ; he gives you the shells and throws away the kernel of his thought.