When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.

When a mouse or other prey is spotted, the kite drops silently onto it, feet-first with wings raised high ; sometimes in one long drop to ground level, more often in two or more stages, with hovering pauses at intermediate heights.

When he awakens, he finds a bee is hovering near his face.

When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.

When the victory cheer went up this officer found himself still mounted, with his horse pressed broadside against Cleburne's log parapet in a tangled group of infantrymen.

When their faith in civil liberties is tested against strong pressures of social expediency in specific issues, e.g., suppression of `` dangerous ideas '', many waver and give in.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

When it became obvious that he could stay inside no longer, taking a thousand to one chance Gonzales rushed outside, square against the muzzle of a Winchester.

When the verdict came in against his young neighbor, Hengesbach said:

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 original stories were related ( e. g. The War against the Rull ) this was often successful.

When Peate returned to the pavilion he was reprimanded by his captain for not allowing his partner, Charles Studd ( one of the best batsman in England, having already hit two centuries that season against the colonists ) to get the runs.

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

When Dido learned of this, Dido uttered a curse that would forever pit Carthage against Rome, an enmity that would culminate in the Punic Wars.

When the mouse turned around, bit the hand of its captor and escaped, he pointed this out to those present and said, " When the tiniest creature defends itself like this against aggressors, what ought men to do, do you reckon?

When Amyntas sought Spartan aid against the growing threat of Olynthus, the Spartans eagerly responded.

When Abiathar was dismissed from the priesthood by King Solomon for having taken part in Adonijah's conspiracy against David, his life was spared because he had formerly borne the Ark ( 1 Kings 2: 26 ).

When a tank destroyer was used against enemy tanks from a defensive position, eg by ambush, a rotating turret was not particularly critical and where a low silhouette was paramount not desirable.

When, in 882, Engelschalk II rebelled against the Margrave of Pannonia, Aribo, and ignited the so-called Wilhelminer War, Arnulf supported him and even accepted his and his brother's homage.

When the work was completed, three dragons rushed against the wall, and while the two of them which attacked those parts of the wall built by the gods fell down dead, the third forced its way into the city through the part built by Aeacus.

When pitchers are changed in the middle of an inning, and one or more errors have already occurred, it is possible to have a run charged as earned against a specific pitcher, but unearned to the team.

When defending against a smash, players have three basic options: lift, block, or drive.

When the Orioles were the St. Louis Browns, they played in only one World Series, the 1944 matchup against their Sportsman's Park tenants, the Cardinals.

When the burner is regulated to produce a hot, blue flame it can be nearly invisible against some backgrounds.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

When a monarch does act, political controversy can often ensue, partially because the neutrality of the crown is seen to be compromised in favour of a partisan goal, while some political scientists champion the idea of an " interventionist monarch " as a check against possible illegal action by politicians.

When they first race against each other, Liddell beats Abrahams.

When Dr. Wallace Buttrick, wise in his judgment of people, declined to have the Science Building named for him, he wrote Miss Tapley ( April 7, 1923 ) `` If you had asked me, I think I would have suggested that you name the building for Miss Upton.

When building an adobe structure, the ground should be compressed because the weight of adobe bricks is significantly greater than a frame house, and may cause cracking in the wall.

When the site was excavated by Soviet archaeologists during 1941-45, they realized that they had discovered a building absolutely unique for the area: a large ( 1500 square meters ) Chinese-style, likely Han Dynasty era ( 206 BCE – 220 CE ) palace.

When the Luftwaffe began bombing Moscow, Pasternak immediately began to serve as a fire warden on the roof of the writer's building on Lavrushinski Street.

When the University of Heidelberg hired Robert Bunsen in 1852, the authorities promised to build him a new laboratory building.

When Chicago was founded in 1833, most of the early building began around the mouth of the Chicago River, as can be seen on a map of the city's original 58 blocks.

When Lenin died, the Soviet leadership was uncertain how the building of the new, socialist society should proceed.

When he was building his first tiny cell, as his hagiograph goes, his first disciple and monk was a boar that had been rendered gentle by God.

When both the fronts and sides of a building are drawn, then the parallel lines forming a side converge at a second point along the horizon ( which may be off the drawing paper.

When a new junior high school was opened in 1986, the Fairmount High School building was closed for good.

When the Hancock Tower was finished in 1976, it was the tallest building in New England.

When the building opened, popular opinion was enthusiastic.

When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.

When building was completed in 1605, the collection was moved to the dedicated Kunstkammer.

When Singapore started building its military in the 1970s, the Republic of China on Taiwan was one of the few places to offer assistance by providing training areas to the Singapore Armed Forces ( SAF ) for conducting military exercises.

When King Gustav Vasa finally besieged and conquered the city three years later, an event which ended the Kalmar Union and the Swedish Middle Ages, he noted every second building in the city was abandoned.

When a building was squatted, it was normal to send the owner a letter and to invite the police to inspect the squat.

When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he ( with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe ) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.

) When this original theatre building in New Castle was in danger of being demolished, the modern Warner Bros. called the modern building owners, and arranged a 3 way in hopes of saving it, between three men, Warner Bros, and the modern owners.

When this was found only partially successful an extensive process of building snow sheds over some of the track to protect it from deep snows and avalanches was instituted.

When a warning is issued, going to a basement or an interior first-floor room of a sturdy building greatly increases chances of survival.

When redirected in to the building and strengthening of these, we find men or women of the greatest endurance greatest magnetic power.

When the building topped out on May 6, 1968, it was the tallest building in the world outside New York City.