When the automobile was in its embryonic stage, such roads as existed were pretty much open roads with the tacit understanding that horses should not be unduly terrified being about the only rule governing where, when and how fast a car could go.

When analog television was developed, no affordable technology for storing any video signals existed ; the luminance signal has to be generated and transmitted at the same time at which it is displayed on the CRT.

When Tiso proved reluctant to do so on the grounds that the autonomy that had existed since October 1938 was sufficient for him, and to completely sever links with the Czechs would leave Slovakia open to being annexed by Hungary, Ribbentrop had the German Embassy in Budapest contact the Regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy.

When Vasco da Gama, exploring for Portugal, reached the coast of Mozambique in 1498, Arab trading settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries, and political control of the coast was in the hands of a string of local sultans.

When one of the two programmers left CompuNet, the remaining programmer, Alan Lenton, decided to rewrite the game from scratch and named it Federation II ( at the time no Federation I existed ).

When Diary of a Camper was created, no software tools existed to edit demo files into films.

When the Germans asked him to declare himself in favour of their desire for national unity, he replied that he would not as this would weaken the Habsburg state: “ Truly, if it were not that Austria had long existed, it would be necessary, in the interest of Europe, in the interest of humanity itself, to create it .”

When the temporal weapon fires on an object, it moves that object outside the space-time continuum, eliminating the object from causality not only in the present and the future, but also the past, changing history to a state where the object never existed.

When it began, North and South Korea existed as provisional governments competing for control over the Korean peninsula, due to the division of Korea by outside powers.

When the sea otter finally received federal protection in 1911, Washington's sea otter had been hunted to extinction, and although a small remnant population still existed in British Columbia, it soon died out.

When Ogden came to lead the Union Pacific, the railroad wasn't fully funded and hadn't yet laid a single mile of track — the railroad existed largely on paper created by an act of Congress.

When Portuguese explorers reached East Africa in 1498, Swahili commercial settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries.

When Air Mauritanie existed, its head office was in the city.

When things settled down, the Privy Council of Denmark had lost some of its influence, and that of Norway no longer existed.

When the Fourth Red Army under Zhang Guotao was formed in the Sichuan-Shaanxi border area from several smaller units, no standard nomenclature of the armies of the Communist Party existed ; moreover, during the Chinese Civil War central control of separate Communist-controlled enclaves within China was limited.

When Chalk's International Airlines existed, its headquarters was on the grounds of the airport in an unincorporated area.

When Bimini Island Air existed, its headquarters were in an unincorporated area.

When the Temple existed, most sacrifices and offerings could only be conducted by priests.

When the airline Busy Bee of Norway existed, its head office was on the grounds of Fornebu Airport.

When we hear the word ' matriarchy ', we are conditioned to a number of responses: that matriarchy refers to the past and that matriarchies have never existed ; that matriarchy is a hopeless fantasy of female domination, of mothers dominating children, of women being cruel to men.

When Mendeleev proposed his periodic table, he noted gaps in the table, and predicted that as-yet unknown elements existed with properties appropriate to fill those gaps.

When the Romans took control of Egypt, the Roman legal system which existed throughout the Roman Empire was imposed in Egypt.

When the district existed, it operated Lucilia Wood Elementary School and Elaine High School.

When it existed, Crown Books had its headquarters in Lake Arbor.

When Air Holland existed, its head office was in Oude Meer, Haarlemmermeer.

When animating the stork, he made him resemble his voice actor, Sterling Holloway.

When the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library opened its doors on October 14, 1963, it had become the home of the volumes from the Sterling Memorial Library Rare Book Room, and three special collections — the Collection of American Literature, the Collection of Western Americana, and the Collection of German Literature.

When the transaction was completed in April 2001, United were forced to pay PSV an additional £ 500, 000 for the player's services due to the change in exchange rates between Euro and Sterling.

When Roblin moved to federal politics in 1967, Weir defeated Sterling Lyon and two other candidates to become the party's new leader.

When the new mayor, charismatic Sterling Golden, is implicated in a murder, Brenda flies off to Belize in Central America, in search of the missing green campaigner Verde.

When the film was released, New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, liked the direction of the film and the acting, writing, " Yet such is the role that Mr. Sinatra plays in Suddenly !, a taut little melodrama that ... shapes up as one of the slickest recent items in the minor movie league ... we have several people to thank-particularly Richard Sale for a good script, which tells a straight story credibly, Mr. Allen for direction that makes both excitement and sense, Mr. Bassler for a production that gets the feel of a small town and the cast which includes Sterling Hayden, James Gleason and Nancy Gates.

When Hal insists they need help, Kroll attempts to arrest them and gets rough with Smith, the youngest of the Sterling sons.

When WCBS acquired the radio rights to the Yankees broadcasts in 2002, Kay moved to the debuting YES Network on television and Sterling remained on the radio.

When the Captain reports Derek's actions, he is connected to the Leader ( Gene Sterling ) himself.

In his speech titled, " When Blobjects Rule the Earth ", Sterling speculated on the future of graphic simulation when practical differences no longer exist between computer generated models and physically manufactured objects.

* Boing Boing: When Blobjects Rule the Earth by Bruce Sterling

When university President James Rowland Angell instituted the residential college system in 1933, the gym was torn down and the dormitories connected with a new building in the Gothic style, forming the Sterling Quadrangle ; the fourth side of the quadrangle is Sterling Memorial Library.

When Jimmy Courtney ( Robert Sterling ), Liz's high society former boyfriend, becomes alarmed because Liz is going to pieces due to a guilty conscience, he offers Johnny all his money to leave the country and take Liz with him.

When Sterling returns with the log, he was indignant that the woman did not wait for him to come back to help her cross the muddy street, and demands the umbrella back.

When Kearny departed for California, Colonel Sterling Price was left in command of American forces in New Mexico.

* Fifth Book of Chess: How to Win When You're Ahead ( Sterling, New York, 1955 )

When director Mack Sennett left to set up Keystone Studios, Sterling followed him.