When, in my enthusiasm, I proposed the party, my city editor ( who disliked the club and many of its members ) tried to block my participation in the gala event.

When Stravinsky shaped his purpose to the shifting scenes of many cultures, many salons, many dialectics, many personalities, he tried to refashion himself into a stylist of many styles, determined by many disparate cultures.

When it was all arranged to fit, and not to interrupt the lengthwise flow of movement in the frieze, the cartoons were tried in place.

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 they tried to depict the most abiding qualities of men, it was because men had common roots with the unchanging gods.

When the ambassadors of the Senate, entreating for peace, tried to intimidate him with hints of what the despairing citizens might accomplish, he laughed and gave his celebrated answer: " The thicker the hay, the easier mowed!

When the old president Kolingba tried to overthrow Patassé in May 2001, the Movement for the Liberation of Congo ( MLC ) came to his rescue.

When she tried to collect money from her husband ’ s estate, she faced complicated lawsuits regarding the recovery of salary due her husband.

When his daughter asked about the bread, Kaye tried showing her by hitting the bread on the kitchen table.

When the conflict began, Lenin tried to commit the army on behalf of Red Finland, but the troops were demoralized, war-weary and home-sick after years of World War I.

When Alcmene was pregnant with Heracles, Hera tried to prevent the birth from occurring by tying Alcmene's legs in knots.

When the French tried to impose the French language, German opposition grew in intensity.

When Prussia tried to put a Hohenzollern candidate, Prince Leopold, on the Spanish throne, the French angrily protested.

When opponents tried to appease him, he accepted the gains that were offered, then went to the next target.

When Spain tried to invade and conquer England it was a fiasco, and the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 associated Elizabeth's name forever with what is popularly viewed as one of the greatest victories in English history.

When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with volunteer efforts, public works projects such as the Hoover Dam, tariffs such as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an increase in the top tax bracket from 25 % to 63 %, and increases in corporate taxes.

" When they tried to sell it to various Hollywood studios, they were told that the film would not work.

When he switched to traditional stop motion, Caprino tried to maintain the impression that he was still using some kind of " magic " technology to make the puppets move, even though all his later films were made with traditional stop motion techniques.

When he repeatedly tried to evade his regular medical check-ups, school nurse Annie Ghazikhanian recognized that something odd was going on with him and pressured him to show her the wound.

When the federal government tried to assert authority on behalf of the Cherokees, the governor of Georgia took up arms.

When his opponents realized what they had gotten themselves into, they tried to bury the censure and move on, but Adams made sure this did not happen and the censure continued to be debated.

When elements of the army leadership tried to assassinate Hitler in the July 20 plot shortly thereafter, it was this trio that rallied the resistance to the plotters.

When Caesar was first elected, the aristocracy tried to limit his future power by allotting the woods and pastures of Italy, rather than the governorship of a province, as his military command duty after his year in office was over.

When Charles tried to find a compromise solution with the Augsburg Interim, Bucer and Bullinger urged Calvin to respond.

When Hicks tried to leave, Dahmer bludgeoned Hicks to death with a 10 lb.

When the price of a stock on the NYSE and its corresponding futures contract on OCX are out of sync, one can buy the less expensive one and sell it to the more expensive market.

When a significant enough premium appears, an arbitrageur will buy the underlying securities, convert them to shares in the ETF, and sell them in the open market.

When this woman wanted to buy a golden necklace ( no name given ) forged by four dwarves ( named Dvalinn, Alfrik, Berling, and Grer ), she offered them gold and silver but they replied that they would only sell it to her if she would lie a night by each of them.

When the time came for him to provide a dowry for his daughter, he saw no alternative than to sell his library.

When the worldwide film boom started, he, and the few other people in the German film business, continued to sell prints of their own films outright, which put them at a disadvantage.

" When you place an order to buy or sell a stock, your broker has choices on where to execute your order.

When DEC cancelled the Jupiter project in 1983, Systems Concepts hoped to sell their machine to customers with a software investment in PDP-10s.

When the Raiders moved back from Los Angeles in 1995, the city of Oakland and the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority agreed to sell Personal Seat Licenses ( PSLs ) to help pay for the renovations to their stadium.

When a government wants to raise long term finance it will often sell bonds to the capital markets.

When the Chorus reappears, he describes the country's dedication to the war effort – " They sell the pasture now to buy the horse.

When film traders buy and sell 16 mm prints they often refer to the print through its production method, that is an " original ", " reversal ", " dupe down ", " double dupe ", and " double dupe down ".

At the matinee, that didn't sell out, Herman Brood and Belgian musician Jean Blaute dropped by for the only live-performance of Als Je Wint ( When You're A Winner ; a song about success and equally-lasting friendships ).

When he suspected the Portuguese of receiving illegally enslaved persons to sell, he wrote in to King João III in 1526 imploring him to put a stop to the practice.

When Hope died on December 4, 1862, his wife Anne Adele inherited the gem, but feared that the profligate lifestyle of her son-in-law might cause him to sell the Hope properties.

When eventually released in September 1995, The Gold Experience failed to sell well, although it reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200 initially, and many reviewed it as Prince's best effort since Sign " O " the Times.

When news of the success of the French whaling fleet in New Zealand waters in the 1838 season reached France in 1839, a solid commercial project was added to all the others — a project which its promoters who had land to sell, hoped would develop into a scheme for effective French colonisation.

When a company lists its securities on a public exchange, the money paid by the investing public for the newly issued shares goes directly to the company ( primary offering ) as well as to any early private investors who opt to sell all or a portion of their holdings ( secondary offering ) as part of the larger IPO.

He tipped off several of his friends and family to sell their ImClone stock When Waksal's broker at Merrill Lynch, Peter Bacanovic, realized what was going on, he alerted their mutual friend, Martha Stewart, that ImClone was about to lose a good deal of its value.

When Eliza overhears Mr. and Mrs. Shelby discussing plans to sell Tom and Harry, Eliza determines to run away with her son.

The album was not quite as praised as the band's previous few albums ( many felt the album was " rushed " and repetitive ), but still managed sell and maintain popularity quite well, with the singles " When the Sun Burns Red " and " People of the Lie " becoming hits.

When free trade was established in Cologne by the French in 1797, the success of Eau de Cologne prompted countless other businessmen to sell their own fragrances under the name of Eau de Cologne.

When he attempted to sell the formula to the Central Powers, he was discovered by Sherlock Holmes.

When provisions are high, the people have so much to pay for them that they have little or nothing left to buy clothes with ; and when they have little to buy clothes with, there are few clothes sold ; and when there are few clothes sold, there are too many to sell, they are very cheap ; and when they are very cheap, there cannot be much paid for making them: and that, consequently, the manufacturing working man's wages are reduced, the mills are shut up, business is ruined, and general distress is spread through the country.

) When Polk moved to terminate the joint occupation agreement, the British finally agreed to divide the region along the 49th parallel in early 1846, keeping the lower Columbia basin as part of the United States, and the dispute was settled by the Oregon Treaty of 1846, which the administration was able to sell to congress because the United States was about to begin the Mexican-American war, and the president and others argued it would be foolish to also fight the British Empire.