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When and keeping
When Krogstad confronts Nora he declares he no longer cares about the remaining balance of Nora's loan but that he will preserve the associated bond in order to blackmail Torvald into not only keeping him employed but promoting him as well.
When an early foal is desired, barn managers will put the mare " under lights " by keeping the barn lights on in the winter to simulate a longer day, thus bringing the mare into estrus sooner than she would in nature.
When the legs are flat, the rower begins to pull the handle toward the chest with their arms while keeping their arms straight and parallel to the floor.
When deciding to use lossy conversion without keeping the original, one should remember that format conversion may be needed in the future to achieve compatibility with software or devices ( format shifting ), or to avoid paying patent royalties for decoding or distribution of compressed files.
When mothers lose a chick, they sometimes attempt to " steal " another mother's chick, usually unsuccessfully as other females in the vicinity assist the defending mother in keeping her chick.
When the energy is available, arcjets are well suited to station keeping in orbit and can replace monopropellant rockets.
When the Prussians arrived and attacked the French right flank in ever-increasing numbers, Napoleon's strategy of keeping the Coalition armies divided had failed and a combined Coalition general advance drove his army from the field in confusion.
When one chooses an abstract domain, one typically has to strike a balance between keeping fine-grained relationships, and high computational costs.
When feeding in shallow water it will dip its head and neck under the water, and it is able to keep its head flat against the bottom while keeping its body horizontal.
When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping.
When it became obvious that Thiệu would rig the poll, Minh withdrew and did not return until 1972, keeping a low profile.
When station keeping fuel runs out, solar and lunar perturbations increase the satellite's inclination so that its ground track begins to describe a figure-8 in the north-south direction.
When " Scrooge-A " works to get his counterpart's business back on track, he retires the debt to Rockerduck, and also buys the produce store, keeping John D. Rockerduck on board as proprietor.
When the rear wheel meets that bump a moment later, it does the same in reverse, keeping the car level front to rear.
When the condition was achieved, the matter was considered settled with the winner proving his point and the loser keeping his reputation for courage.
) 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.
" When Ashburn first used this phrase it worked fine, keeping Chacón from running into him.
When the filming was finally finished in Taiwan, the government of the Republic of China held several members of the crew, including McQueen and his family, supposedly " hostage " by keeping their passports because of unpaid additional taxes.
When the Great Northern Railway depot was moved three miles south, keeping that name, for a period Duquette was called Old Kerrick, the new site being called New Kerrick ; the names were corrected when the Duquette post office was established in 1905.
When Haldeman's appointment to the White House was announced, Robert Rutland, a close personal friend and eminent presidential scholar, urged him to start keeping a daily diary recording the major events of each day and Haldeman's thoughts on them.
When the actual invasion began, the success of Fortitude was that it misled the German High Command into believing the landings were a diversion and of keeping reserves away from the beaches.
When Robinson was sick with his various ailments, his son accused Robinson's wife of keeping him under the influence of medication to manipulate him.
When there is no need to post-process the music with it properly fitting up to a tempo grid in a DAW, it can be reasoned that there is thus no need to record or perform to a click track, particularly if the band is good at keeping together rhythmically and particularly if they are musicians who are experienced with tempo-alteration and musical phrasing.
When he returned to America he lived in Montclair, New Jersey, while keeping a studio in New York City.

When and weapons
When the Soviet Union was the only member state which refused to sign, the U. S. embarked on a massive nuclear weapons testing, development, and deployment program.
When asked " Would you approve or disapprove of the UK using nuclear weapons against a country we are at war with?
When a general said in a meeting " We should throw in a nuke once in a while to keep the other side guessing ," Dyson became alarmed and obtained permission to write an objective report discussing the pros and cons of using such weapons from a purely military point of view.
When the gods were believed to be duly propitiated ... Armour, weapons, and other things of the kind were ordered to be in readiness, and the ancient spoils gathered from the enemy were taken down from the temples and colonnades.
The editorial states, ' When Washington finally turned its attention to India, it honored the ambassador's pledge, loaded 60 U. S. planes with $ 5, 000, 000 worth of automatic weapons, heavy mortars and land mines.
When the weapons were removed from the mound, this movement disturbed the bowl beneath them where the butt ends of the staffs were, which in turn ignited the fuses.
When gunpowder was introduced, the Ottoman Turks of the Ottoman Empire hired the mercenaries that used the gunpowder weapons and obtained their instruction for the Janissaries.
When the extreme danger intrinsic to nuclear war and the possession of nuclear weapons became apparent to all sides during the Cold War, a series of disarmament and nonproliferation treaties were agreed upon between the United States, the Soviet Union, and several other states throughout the world.
When he became a grand minister in 1586, he created a law that the samurai caste became codified as permanent and heritable, and that non-samurai were forbidden to carry weapons, thereby ending the social mobility of Japan from which he himself had benefited.
When the Force is attached, either to the front or back, it acts as a weapons system and will fire in whatever direction it is facing.
When detached, the Force can be made to fire, but it uses an array of simple blasters rather than the weapons it supplies to the ship.
When most weapons are used, they cause explosions that deform the terrain, creating circular cavities.
When mines are employed in the controlled role, they are treated as individual weapons and are reported in the unit fire plan.
* When and how should such weapons be used?
When a segment of his army fled from battle, abandoning their weapons, Crassus revived the ancient practice of decimation – i. e., executing one out of every ten men, with the victims selected by drawing lots.
When asked about the possibility of conducting an air-strike on the historic site, NATO refused to rule out the possibility of such an action saying that it had not been able to confirm the rebels ' report that weapons were being hidden at the location.
When these weapons were found to be successful, they were incorporated onto the PT boats as original armament.
When the intruder returns again the next night, the C57-Ds crew discovers it is invisible, its shape outlined only by the energy beams of the force field fence and the energy weapons directed at it, all of which have no effect.
When the cafeteria bombs failed to explode, Harris and Klebold armed themselves with their weapons, convened and walked towards the school.
When Wallace announced his selection in October 1968, LeMay opined that he, unlike many Americans, clearly did not fear using nuclear weapons.
When Japan surrendered in August 1945, the Japanese handed over control of some public buildings and weapons requisitioned from the French army to the Việt Minh, now led by Hồ Chí Minh, after turning in the Vietnamese nationalist leaders of the Việt Minh to the French colonialists.
When defeated, Koopas may flee from or retreat inside their shells, which can then usually be used as weapons.
When the Boers bombarded Ladysmith with Creusot ninety-four pounder siege guns, Chamberlain asked for the dispatch of comparable artillery to the war, but was exasperated by the Secretary of State for War, Lord Lansdowne's argument that such weapons required platforms that needed a year of preparation, even though the Boers operated their " Long Tom " without elaborate mountings.
When collateral damage has occurred, 70 % of the time it was due to failed “ positive identification ” of a target, 22 % of the time it was attributable to weapons malfunction, and a mere 8 % of the time it was attributable to proportionality balancing-e. g.

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