When the Confederate attempt to defend Petersburg failed, the Confederate army retreated but was pursued and defeated, which resulted in Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

When Mankind was given the prize of Eden, Absalom led his armies against Heaven and Hell in an attempt to steal it back.

When he was staying in Nicaea, his cousins, who had been living there, made an unsuccessful attempt to take his life.

When Kerbogha was defeated, Adhemar organized a council in an attempt to settle the leadership disputes, but he died on 1 August 1098, probably of typhus.

When AI researchers attempt to " scale up " their systems to handle more complicated, real world situations, the programs tend to become excessively brittle without commonsense knowledge or a rudimentary understanding of the situation: they fail as unexpected circumstances outside of its original problem context begin to appear.

When this was rebuffed he made an attempt to cross back to Italy to collect his missing troops but was turned back by a storm.

When an English soldier tries to rape Murron, Wallace fights off several soldiers and the two attempt to flee.

When Heracles had pulled Theseus first from his chair, some of his thigh stuck to it ( this explains the supposedly lean thighs of Athenians ), but the earth shook at the attempt to liberate Pirithous, whose desire to have the wife of a god for himself was so insulting he was doomed to stay behind.

When Gail refused to go along with the plan, Joe sailed away and in the attempt, drowned for real, leaving Gail to be charged with his murder.

" She summed up her driving work ethic, " I can say this: When I attempt anything, I have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle … And I do my own work with a refusal to accept defeat that might almost be called painful.

When in an aggressive mode, a chimp will swagger bipedally, hunched over and arms waving, in an attempt to exaggerate its size.

* The preface of Concrete Mathematics includes the following anecdote: " When Knuth taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft.

When an attempt is made to modify ( update, insert into, or delete from ) a table, undesired side-effects may follow.

When elections are called, politicians and their supporters attempt to influence policy by competing directly for the votes of constituents in what are called campaigns.

When Plissken reluctantly agrees to attempt the rescue, Hauk has him injected with microscopic explosives that will rupture his carotid arteries in 24 hours.

When used in an attempt to be offensive, the word is still considered vulgar, but it remains a mild example of such an insult.

When unskilled fighters get embroiled in combat, a common reaction is to grab the opponent in an attempt to slow the situation down by holding them still, resulting in an unsystematic struggle that relies on brute force.

When Constantine converted to Christianity the majority of his subjects were still pagans and the Roman Imperial cult of the divinity of the emperor, expressed through the traditional burning of candles and the offering of incense to the emperor ’ s image, was tolerated for a period because it would have been politically dangerous to attempt to suppress it.

When Madison decided to run for election to the house instead, Henry gerrymandered Madison ’ s home district, filling it with anti-federalists in an attempt to prevent Madison's election.

When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line.

" When the flags over the many peat-constructed towers were raised, farmers would go to others ' towers and attempt to " level them to the ground.

When the Justice Society's forced attempt to stop them by sending Hawkman and Captain Marvel against them met with failure and resulted in Superman and Batman briefly infiltrating the White House, Luthor, in an enraged and desperate gambit after Superman's rapid defeats of his plans, used a variant combination of the " super-steroid " Venom ( a chemical associated with the Batman villain Bane ), liquid synthetic Kryptonite, and an Apokoliptian battlesuit to fight Superman directly.

When slavery was abolished on 1 February 1835, an attempt was made to secure a cheap source of adaptable labour for intensive sugar plantations in Mauritius.

When he remarries, the young Culhwch rejects his stepmother's attempt to pair him with his new stepsister.

When he hastily returned home, the brief attempt at political liberalization in North Korea was ended.

When Hunt, Adams, and Howsam were unable to secure a controlling interest in the Chicago Cardinals, they approached NFL commissioner Bert Bell and proposed the addition of expansion teams.

When the Attorney-Generalship fell vacant in 1594, Lord Essex's influence was not enough to secure Bacon that office.

When doctors could not help Alexei, the Tsarina looked everywhere for help, ultimately turning to her best friend, Anna Vyrubova, to secure the help of the charismatic peasant healer Rasputin in 1905.

" When it comes to the organization of classes, the ability required to secure a properly organized and large school or section of a school, you are wanting in ability.

When it comes to the matter of practical farm managing which will secure definite, practical, financial results, you are wanting again in ability.

When Telemann declined the job, it was offered to Christoph Graupner, who also declined it — though chiefly because he could not secure a dismissal from his employer the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.

When the king himself died in 1509, the position of the Tudors was secure at last, and his son succeeded him unopposed.

When combined with secure containers, or document destruction systems, or electronic access or alarm systems, locks can provide much higher levels of security.

When the tests set out by the Rules are satisfied, the accused may be adjudged " not guilty by reason of insanity " or " guilty but insane " and the sentence may be a mandatory or discretionary ( but usually indeterminate ) period of treatment in a secure hospital facility, or otherwise at the discretion of the court ( depending on the country and the offence charged ) instead of a punitive disposal.

When business magnate Stanton Mick hires Runciter ’ s company to secure his lunar facilities from telepaths, Runciter assembles eleven agents for this task.

When Otto II sent an imperial representative, Count Sicco, to secure his release, Crescentius I and Cardinal-Deacon Franco Ferrucci, who would subsequently become Boniface VII, an antipope, had Benedict murdered while still in prison.

When Sari Nusseibeh was the representative of the Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem ( circa 2000 ), he called for historic compromises by both Palestinians and Israelis, to secure a permanent and lasting peace.

When friendly persuasion failed to secure their interests, the British were not above ( to borrow Karl von Clausewitz's phrase ) " continuing diplomacy by other means ".

When the millionaire Lebowski's trophy wife is later kidnapped, he commissions The Dude to deliver the ransom to secure her release.

When trans-Saharan trade intensified, they developed departure and arrival centers with slave depots and intermediary secure caravan stops.

When Otto II sent an imperial representative, Count Sicco, to secure his release, Crescentius I and Cardinal-Deacon Franco Ferrucci, who would subsequently become Boniface VII, an antipope, had Benedict murdered while still in prison.

When Otto II sent an imperial representative, Count Sicco, to secure his release, Crescentius I and Cardinal Franco Ferrucci had Benedict VI murdered while still in prison in 974.

When the dead body of Culshaw was examined, a pistol wad ( crushed paper used to secure powder and balls in the muzzle ) found in his head wound matched perfectly with a torn newspaper found in Toms ' pocket.

When his Jewish daughter-in-law Alice was placed under house arrest in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1938, Strauss used his connections in Berlin, including the Berlin intendant Heinz Tietjen, to secure her safety.

When the Colonies were first settled, " the lawyer was synonymous with the cringing Attorneys-General and Solicitors-General of the Crown and the arbitrary Justices of the King's Court, all bent on the conviction of those who opposed the King's prerogatives, and twisting the law to secure convictions.

When Julius Caesar marched on Rome with legio XIII, he ordered his legate Gaius Fabius to march on Iberia and to secure the passes through the Pyrenees.

When Phineas is secure in his position, he launches an attack to rid the Ship of muties once and for all.

When they left they gave the stones to the locals with the promise that as long as the stones were put out to look over the glen at Beltane and put back into the shelter and made secure for the winter at Samhain then the glen would continue to be fertile.