When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

When some local Berber tribesmen learned of Abd al-Rahman's intent to set sail for al-Andalus, they quickly rode to catch up with him on the coast.

When his friends from the local village came to visit him and found him in this condition, they carried him to a church.

When the English captured pre-existing colonies they continued to allow the local settlers to keep their civil law.

When one of these is found, it is necessary to move the search away from it if the experimenter is looking solely for local minima and transition structures.

When sufficient information has been gathered, the investigation of the candidate, who is called " Servant of God ", is presented by the local bishop to the Roman Curia — in particular, the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints — where it is assigned a postulator, whose task is to gather further information about the life of the Servant of God.

When sold in another country, Canadian whisky is typically also required to conform to the local product requirements that apply to whisky in general when sold in that country, which may in some aspects involve stricter standards than the Canadian law.

When deforestation occurs without proper replanting, however ; local wood supplies become difficult to obtain near enough to remain competitive, leading to the city's abandonment, as happened repeatedly in Ancient Asia Minor.

When an application makes a request that requires a domain name lookup, such programs send a resolution request to the DNS resolver in the local operating system, which in turn handles the communications required.

When news came that the local vicar had drowned while trying to save victims of the shipwreck, Squire Cobtree offered the post to Christopher Syn.

When an HTML page is rendered in a browser, the browser downloads the HTML into local memory and parses it, using the DOM to construct the internal data structures employed to display the page in the browser window.

When the French general Junot arrived in Lisbon, the Portuguese fleet had already left with all the local elite.

When El Niño conditions last for many months, extensive ocean warming and the reduction in Easterly Trade winds limits upwelling of cold nutrient-rich deep water and its economic impact to local fishing for an international market can be serious.

When a key is requested, first the node checks the local data store.

When the Domain of Biscay was incorporated into the kingdom of Castile it became customary for the king of Castile to visit Guernica and swear an oath under the Tree promising to uphold the fueros or local laws of Biscay.

When he was still a child, Verdi's parents moved from Piacenza to Busseto, where the future composer's education was greatly facilitated by visits to the large library belonging to the local Jesuit school.

When some of Tiberius's ships were carried to Britain in a storm during his campaigns in Germany in 16 AD, they were sent back by local rulers, telling tall tales of monsters.

When the local Rothschild agent complained about short-weight consignments he left California, pretending it was because of illness.

When Maroger's book became available, Reginald Marsh drew on Maroger's book-jacket an airplane dropping an atomic bomb on the Maryland Art Institute, a reference to the controversy Maroger was causing in the local press over the abstract art versus realism debate.

When the news of Ribbentrop's remarks was leaked to the Polish press despite Colonel Beck's order to the censors on 27 March, it caused anti-German riots in Poland with the local N. S. D. A. P headquarters in the ethnically mixed town of Lininco destroyed by a mob.

When colonial rule was established and efficiency was sought, partly because of settler pressure, newly educated younger men were associated with old chiefs in local Native Councils.

When Kenesaw was eight, the elder Landis moved his family to Delphi, Indiana and subsequently to Logansport, Indiana where the doctor purchased and ran several local farms — his war injury had caused him to scale back his medical practice.

When Larissa ceased minting the federal coins it shared with other Thessalian towns and adopted its own coinage in the late 5th century BC, it chose local types for its coins.

When World War 2 ended, the local economy began to experience revitalization by way of subsidies from Federal Belgrade.

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 used in civil proceedings in England and Wales, the term " complaint " refers to the mechanism by which civil proceedings are instituted in the magistrates ' court and may be either written or oral.

When the edition of the acts of the colloquy, as prepared by Jakob Andrea, was published, Samuel Huber, of Burg near Bern, who belonged to the Lutheranizing faction of the Swiss clergy, took so great offense at the supralapsarian doctrine of predestination propounded at Mömpelgard by Beza and Musculus that he felt it to be his duty to denounce Musculus to the magistrates of Bern as an innovator in doctrine.

When Sarah Cloyce ( Nurse's sister ) and Elizabeth ( Bassett ) Proctor were arrested in April, they were brought before John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin, not only in their capacity as local magistrates, but as members of the Governor's Council, at a meeting in Salem Town.

When ordinary citizens are confronted with tyranny, he wrote, ordinary citizens have to suffer it ( whereas in the Mandate of Heaven and in the theology of the Jesuits Bellarmine and Mariana, they have the right to rebellion and tyrannicide ), but magistrates have the duty to " curb the tyranny of kings ," as had the Tribunes in ancient Rome, the Ephori in Sparta, and the Demarchs in ancient Athens -- and indeed the Censorate of China.

When Kirkcaldy was awarded royal burgh status in 1644, the duties of the provost were initially completed by bailies, councillors, and magistrates.

When the commission expired in 1636 and the Connecticut Colony was established, the legislature was established as the " General Corte ", consisting of six magistrates along with three-member " committees " representing each of the three towns.

When the colony's governing magistrates drafted a response to the charges raised by Gorges, Dudley was alone in opposing language referring to the king as his " sacred majesty ", and to bishops of the Church of England as " Reverend Bishops ".

When one revisits this drama, a feeling of indignation against such cruel magistrates suddenly takes hold of the spirit ; then, another impression comes forth.

When confronted with Spatuzza ’ s statement, Scarantino admitted that he had repeated what some investigating officers had forced him to tell the magistrates.

When a local preacher in North Shields criticised the actions of the magistrates at Peterloo, he faced criticism from itinerants and ' respectable friends.

When the Caprivi Strip ( formerly German Barotse-or Zambezi-land ; in present Namibia ) which had been administered by British Military Administrators since 21 September 1914 formally came under the administration of the British High Commissioners for Southern Africa, the last Military Administrator stayed on as the first of only two Deputy magistrates, the highest British colonial official actually resident in the Strip:

When Thom and his followers paraded in and around the countryside near Boughton, a farmer named Curling asked magistrates in Canterbury to arrest his truant workers who had left with Thom.

When Husayn received a request from the men of Kufa to come and lead them, Abdullah urged him not to go unless the Kufans first overthrew their Umayyad magistrates.

When an either way offence is to be tried at the Crown Court, magistrates are responsible for committal to the Crown Court ( a task in former times dealt with by a grand jury ), which requires the Court to consider whether there is a case to answer based upon statements and exhibits submitted to the court.

When a defendant first appears before a magistrates ' court, they will do so in one of three circumstances.

When sitting as family proceedings courts the magistrates ' courts hear proceedings brought under the Children ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1995.

When men understand the advantage of having a government, they would convene together, choose their magistrates and promise them obedience.

* In an account from Herodotus, " When the banished Samians reached Sparta, they had audience of the magistrates, before whom they made a long speech, as was natural with persons greatly in want of aid.