When B'dikkat cut the head from Mercer's thigh, he felt the knife grinding against the cartilage which held the head to his own body.

When the great reform of the 11th century had put an end to the direct jurisdiction of the lay abbots, the honorary title of abbot continued to be held by certain of the great feudal families, as late as the 13th century and later, the actual head of the community retaining that of dean.

When an election was held at the conclusion of Mackenzie's five-year term, the Conservatives were swept back into office in a landslide victory.

:" When the day for the assembly which was held in the town of Birka drew near, in accordance with their national custom the king caused a proclamation to be made to the people by the voice of a herald, in order that they might be informed concerning the object of their mission.

When Galileo later complained of rumors to the effect that he had been forced to abjure and do penance, Bellarmine wrote out a certificate denying the rumors, stating that Galileo had merely been notified of the decree and informed that, as a consequence of it, the Copernican doctrine could not be " defended or held ".

When two distinct elements are chemically combined, with the atoms held together by chemical bonds, the result is termed a chemical compound.

When Napoleon arrived, he reorganized the defenses, while realizing that without cannon, the city could not be held.

When held in correct manner, the thumb applies the necessary power to generate the desired sound.

When elections were held to the newly created Scottish Parliament in 1999, as leader of the Scottish Labour Party and through a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, Dewar became the inaugural holder of the First Minister of Scotland post.

When that research was repeated in 2007, the number of senior management posts held by women had fallen to 22 %.

When the new National Convention held its first meeting, David was sitting with his friends Jean-Paul Marat and Robespierre.

When the regimental companies in the Grants had been raised, they held a vote in Dorset to determine who would command the regiment.

When the Fauves held their own exhibit in 1906, Munch was invited and displayed his works with theirs.

When King Xerxes saw Esther, he was pleased and held out his scepter to her, showing that he accepted her visit.

When observed visually, clusters appear to be collections of galaxies held together by mutual gravitational attraction.

When they are the longest serving State Governor, the Governor of New South Wales holds a dormant commission to act as the Administrator of the Commonwealth when the Governor-General of Australia is absent from Australia, a role held by the current Governor.

When Haiti announced that its first direct elections ( all men twenty-one or over were allowed to vote ) would be held on October 8, 1950, Magloire resigned from the junta and declared himself a candidate for president.

When the counter-attack failed to stop the Soviet advance, Hitler held Himmler personally liable and accused him of not following orders.

When the war ended on 11 November 1918, Italy's army had occupied most of Albania ; Serbia held much of the country's northern mountains ; Greece occupied a sliver of land within Albania's 1913 borders ; and French forces occupied Korçë and Shkodër as well as other regions with sizable Albanian populations such as Kosovo.

When on the ground, they stand upright and move with short hops forward, with their arms held high.

When her husband was captured in 1509 and held hostage in Venice, she took control of Mantua's military forces and held off their invaders until his release in 1512.

When Adams appointed Clay as Secretary of State — the position that Adams and his three predecessors had held before becoming president — Jacksonian Democrats were outraged, and claimed that Adams and Clay had struck a " corrupt bargain.

When he declared to the House of Commons in November 1993 that " to sit down and talk with Mr. Adams and the Provisional IRA ... would turn my stomach ", Sinn Féin gave the media an outline of the secret talks indeed held regularly since that February.

When the vote was held, the convention barely had sufficient votes to ratify, and these likely did not appear until the last minute.

When Fosdick showed the letter to Baker his negative response was: `` For God's sake, Raymond, don't show this to the President or he'll stop the war ''.

When paper electrophoresis was to be used for preparation, eight strips of a whole serum sample or a chromatographic fraction concentrated by negative pressure dialysis were run/chamber under the conditions described above.

When used by academics, an arbitrage is a transaction that involves no negative cash flow at any probabilistic or temporal state and a positive cash flow in at least one state ; in simple terms, it is the possibility of a risk-free profit at zero cost.

When the circuit is solved, the circuit element currents may have positive or negative values.

When told that it was not for sale, Chiang offered a million dollars to recover the photo and its negative.

When an infected host cell is starved for various nutrients such as amino acids ( for example, tryptophan ), iron, or vitamins, this has a negative consequence for Chlamydiae since the organism is dependent on the host cell for these nutrients.

When the cell is being charged, the anode becomes the positive (+) and the cathode the negative (−) electrode.

When the cell is being discharged, it behaves like a primary cell, with the anode as the negative and the cathode as the positive electrode.

When the work print or edit master has been approved, the Original Camera Negative ( OCN ) is assembled by a negative cutter using the edited work print or EDL ( edit decision list ) as a guide.

When used to allege that a given party is gaining disproportionate power, the term gerrymandering has negative connotations.

When the film editing is complete, the edge numbers on the final cut film correspond back to their identical frames on the original negative so that a conform edit can be made of the original negative to match the work print.

When it is present at a much higher concentration, it also binds to OR3, inhibiting transcription from P < sub > RM </ sub >, thus regulating its own levels in a negative feedback loop.

When and are either both positive or both negative, then can also be thought of as asserting that both and have the same remainder.

When is a conditional probability distribution and the loss function is the negative log likelihood:, then empirical risk minimization is equivalent to maximum likelihood estimation.

When negative feedback is used, the circuit's overall gain and response becomes determined mostly by the feedback network rather than by the op-amp itself.

When the negative team appeals to prima facie, it appeals to the fact that the affirmative team cannot add or amend anything in its plan after being stated in the first affirmative constructive.

When employed, the reproduction of prints from three-plate photos was done by dyes or pigments using the complementary CMY model, by simply using the negative plates of the filtered takes: reverse red gives the cyan plate, and so on.

When V is positive, electrons in the tip tunnel into empty states in the sample ; for a negative bias, electrons tunnel out of occupied states in the sample into the tip.

When v is larger than c, the denominator in the equation for the energy is " imaginary ", as the value inside the square root is negative.

When n people have to communicate among themselves, as n increases, their output decreases and when it becomes negative the project is delayed further with every person added.

When we commit harmful deeds out of equally harmful intentions, this is negative action.

When the United States Treasury bailed out large financial firms, to ostensibly halt a downward spiral in the nation's economy, there was tremendous negative political fallout, particularly when reports came out that monies supposed to be used to ease credit restrictions were being used to pay bonuses to highly-paid employees.

When the reaction is exothermic ( ΔH is negative, puts energy out ), we include heat as a product, and, when the reaction is endothermic ( ΔH is positive, takes energy in ), we include it as a reactant.