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 fully built out, the neighborhood is projected to have 14, 000 residents.

* When Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark arrive at the Capitol in the 2012 film The Hunger Games, a pair of pink borzoi are shown on screen — an illustration of the Capitol residents ' gaudy lifestyle.

When the Town was incorporated, the residents wanted to name it Contentment.

When Drumcondra began to rapidly expand in the 1870s, the residents of Glasnevin sought to protect their district and opposed being merged with the neighbouring suburb.

When British troops attempted to seize Buenos Aires in 1806, the attack was repulsed by the city's residents, not by Spain.

When the urban population of surrounding Golfe prefecture is added, the Lomé Agglomeration contained 1, 477, 660 residents in 2010.

When he takes the 250-year-old Armenian capital, Corbulo gives the residents a few hours to collect their valuables and burns the city to the ground.

When the king was passing by the oasis, the residents killed his son, and the Yemenite ruler threatened to exterminate the people and cut down the palms.

When referring to residents of the US, norðurríkjamaður, or more commonly bandaríkjamaður, is used.

When Lawrence scouts the enemy-held city of Daraa with Ali, he is taken, along with several Arab residents, to the Turkish Bey ( José Ferrer ).

When the war ended in May 1945, British and U. S. civilian authorities ordered their military forces in Europe to deport to the Soviet Union millions of former residents of the USSR, including many persons who had left Russia and established different citizenship decades before.

When Gomez and Morticia first moved in as the home's owners ( though Gomez and Grandmama had been residents even before then ), they thought it was haunted.

When residents learned about the discovery, it at first became a ghost town of abandoned ships and businesses, but then boomed as merchants and new people arrived.

When the vote was completed, the vast majority of the residents of province voted in favour of Pakistan and the region was subsequently incorporated into the new country with full civic amenities and rights.

" When he is forced to burn the church at Pembroke, with town residents inside by Tavington, only then does he regret his own words and realize what kind of man his commanding officer really is.

" When the magazine was seen in Choctaw County, the Causeys were subjected to brutal economic retaliation by white residents, who tried to coerce Mrs. Causey into recanting her remarks.

When Muhammad arrived in Medina, he paired off each immigrant ( Muhajir ) with one of the residents of the city ( Ansari ), joining Muhammad ibn Maslamah with Umar making them brothers in faith.

When residents require hospitalization beyond the first aid care, they are airlifted out of the island by helicopter ( on emergencies ) to nearby ones or, if the weather permits, they are transported by the ferry.

When the promoters of Kermit townsite offered lots for free, county residents chose Kermit as the county seat.

When the railroad bypassed the Contharp Community, many of the residents relocated to work at a nearby sawmill.

When compared to other large urban counties, St. Louis County's crime rate per 100, 000 residents is among the lowest in the nation.

When the state seceded, most Union County residents supported the Confederacy, and the majority of its

When marchers arrived, they discovered that most of the Cumming residents had already left town for the day, and some had boarded up their windows because they feared violence.

When Musella became a flag stop, the railroad offered better opportunities for farmers to market their products, so many of the residents of nearby Ceres, Georgia, ( named after Roman goddess of agriculture ; settlement also called Hopewell ) migrated to Musella.

When the beast ( whom Molly has named " Steve ") starts eating residents of Pine Cove and interfering with Theo's boss's meth business, Molly ( who has become romantically involved with the beast ) and Theo band together to make possible the beast's safe escape and to take down the boss at the same time.