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 down the steep grade of Hoffman Cove Road, the trailer overpowered the tractor and began pushing it down the grade.

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 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 the waves are steep, it may be necessary to sail closer to the wind to avoid waves directly on the beam.

When air at ground level is heated, it begins to rise, moving up past steep high mountain ranges, which then cools slightly, sinking back down towards the valley more compressed.

When chemists created inexpensive substitutes for carmine, an industry and a way of life went into steep decline.

When news reached him that king Rusas I of Urartu was moving against him, he turned back to Lake Urmia in forced marches and defeated a Urartian army in a steep valley of the Uaush ( probably the Sahend, east of Lake Urmia, or further to the south, in Mannaea country ), a steep mountain that reached the clouds and whose flanks were covered by snow.

When missionaries established the Mission Santa Cruz in 1791, they noted " an area to the east of the San Lorenzo River " in sight of the Sea " that was crisscrossed by " steep gulches containing running water " and three " reed-lined " lagoons.

When Microsoft Office 95 and Windows 95 were introduced into the Chinese market, the influence and sales of WPS went into steep decline.

When the party came close to the summit, they had to leave the ridge for the north face because " ridge was usually more rotten and steep, and always more difficult than the face ".

When Lassen Peak formed it looked much like the nearby Chaos Crags domes do today, with steep sides covered by angular rock talus.

When light traveling in a dense medium hits a boundary at a steep angle, the light will be completely reflected.

When in fit working condition they are able to run all day without tiring, even over very rough or steep ground.

When, with infinite toil, they had climbed up the greater part of the steep ascent, Balboa commanded his men to halt, and advanced alone to the summit, that he might be the first who should enjoy a spectacle which he had so long desired.

When getting closer to Cox Mountain, the trail can get fairly steep.

When speaking of Japanese edged weapons, the term refers to the grind of the blade: an edge with more niku is more convex and / or steep and therefore tougher, though it seems less sharp.

When the lines are close together the magnitude of the gradient is large: the variation is steep.

When there are three or more of these cirque headwalls and arêtes joined together to form a single peak it creates a pyramid shape with very steep walls and it is called a horn or glacial horn.

When it hits a plate under a steep angle, its path might be curved, causing it to move through more armour – or it might bounce off entirely.

When winter arrives, both sexes move to steep rocky slopes that amass minimal little of snow.

When the attackers withdrew to an almost inaccessible position atop a steep hill, Pyrrhus then deployed the elephants against the third and fourth legions, who likewise proceeded to take refuge in heavily wooded areas on high ground while remaining under constant fire from the archers and slingers escorting the elephants.

Of this region, Mary Notarthomas has written that " When walking on the lake trails, one is cradled between the rich, vibrant, almost alien blue-green waters on one side and thickly vegetated, steep wooded inclines on the other .."

When it comes to serious sand dunes, most off-road vehicles including those with four wheel drive are relatively top heavy and can only safely climb or descend steep hills with a mostly perpendicular approach to inclines or downhills.

When asked which version of Tetris he liked the most, Logg stated the Nintendo version of Tetris for the NES " wasn't tuned right ", citing a lack of logarithmic speed adjustment as the source of that version's overly steep increases in difficulty.

When the sun illuminates the feature at an oblique angle at about day 8 of the Moon's orbit, the Rupes Recta casts a wide shadow that gives it the appearance of a steep cliff.