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When and news
When strong hands buy, they are able to buy more, and they do it even in the face of bearish news reports.
When the news spread that Agrippina had died, the Roman army, senate and various people sent him letters of congratulations that he had been saved from his mother's plots.
When news of the rebellion reached him, Suetonius hurried along Watling Street through hostile territory to Londinium.
When the news became certain, the French press insisted that the defeat was the result both of an overwhelmingly large British force and unspecified " traitors.
When news of this threatens to ruin the President's chances for re-election, the Hubbards conspire to steal the election.
When this news reached England, it confirmed Kidd's reputation as a pirate, and various naval commanders were ordered to " pursue and seize the said Kidd and his accomplices " for the " notorious piracies " they had committed.
When the news of the victory is brought to David, he does not rejoice, but is instead shaken with grief: " O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
When news arrived of Cerialis ' victory over Civilis, Mucianus tactfully dissuaded Domitian from pursuing further military endeavours.
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 news of his death reached Paris Eugene decided to flee to Austria in the hope of taking over his brother's command.
When news reached Dublin of the capture of the Aud and the arrest of Casement, Nathan conferred with the Lord Lieutenant, Lord Wimborne.
When these news reached Silvanus, he demanded that the spoil be sent to him.
When news arrives that the Mikado will be visiting the town, Ko-Ko assumes that he is coming to ascertain whether Ko-Ko has carried out the executions.
When news of his death at the Council of Constance in 1415 arrived, disturbances broke out, directed primarily against the clergy, and especially against the monks.
When budgets are cut, editors may sacrifice reporters in distant news bureaus, reduce the number of staff assigned to low-income areas, or wipe entire communities from the publication's zone of interest.
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 this news of his family ’ s execution reaches him, Macduff is stricken with grief and vows revenge.
When Macduff learns of the murders of his wife and child, Malcolm consoles him unsympathetically with encouragement to take the news in “ manly ” fashion and use it to fuel his hatred of Macbeth.
When news customers share common beliefs, profit-maximizing media outlets find it optimal to select and / or frame stories in order to pander to those beliefs.
When, for example, television producers " pre-interview " participants in news and public affairs programs, to insure that they will speak in simple, attention-grabbing terms, and when the search for viewers leads to an emphasis on the sensational and the spectacular, people with complex or nuanced views are not allowed a hearing.
When a user posts to one news server, the message is stored locally.
When news of the natural wonders of the Yellowstone were first promulgated, the land was part of a federally governed territory.
When Admiral Bokhari heard the news, a strong and powerful protest was launched against the Prime minister and the silent cold war with the admiral came to end with Prime minister approving the relieving papers of Admiral Bokhari the next morning.
When local area networks became widespread, it was natural that administrators and users would desire remote access to the news spool, and NNTP, the Network News Transfer Protocol, was developed to serve that need.
When she received the news, his mother attempted to contain her sorrow by writing down her feelings in a notebook her husband had been using to take notes on a relativity textbook he had been reading.

When and raid
When Confucius heard of the raid, he requested from Viscount Ji Huan to allow the duke and his court to retreat to a stronghold on his palace grounds.
When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.
When the raid on Harpers Ferry took place on October 16, Tubman was not present.
When Montgomery and his troops conducted an assault on a collection of plantations along the Combahee River, Tubman served as a key adviser and accompanied the raid.
When, despite the treaty, the Xiongnu continued to raid Han borders, Emperor Wu of Han ( r. 141 – 87 BCE ) launched several military campaigns against them.
When the authorities raid the gathering, Mannie flees with Wyoming (" Wyoh ") Knott, a statuesque blonde agitator, whom he introduces to Mike and with whom he goes to see his former teacher, the elderly Professor Bernardo de la Paz, who claims that Luna must stop exporting hydroponic wheat to Earth or its resources will be exhausted.
When the Spartan garrison of Athens, supported by Athenian cavalry, was sent out to oppose him, Thrasybulus led his force, now 700 strong, in a surprise daybreak raid on their camp, killing 120 Spartans and putting the rest to flight.
When the SOG commando raid was being carried out against Hon Nieu, the ship was away from the attacked area.
When Tordenskjold carried out his famous raid at Dynekil in 1716 more than 80 percent of the sailors and 90 percent of the soldiers in his force were Norwegian.
When Reverend Adair heard the shot, he sent his own son to warn and notify John Brown of the raid.
When journalists visited Parihaka in October 1881, a month before the brutal government raid that destroyed it, they found " square miles of potato, melon and cabbage fields around Parihaka ; they stretched on every side, and acres and acres of the land show the results of great industry and care ".
When the Russian explorers and raiders arrived to the region in the early 1650 ( notably, during Yerofei Khabarov's 1651 raid ), they would often see the Daur farmers burn their smaller villages and taking refuge in larger towns.
When Barclay Coppock, a youth from Springdale, who was part of Brown ’ s raid, fled to Iowa, Kirkwood refused to accept extradition papers for him from Virginia, and allowed Coppock to escape.
When the Second World War begins of the outbreak, Japanese zero pilots was air raid invaded the municipal town at Santo Domingo during the Japanese Invasion on December 1941 and before the entering the Japanese troops occupied the town municipality during the Japanese Occupation on 1942.
When Donovans had the farm during WW2, planes were parked there overnight in case a bombing raid struck Essendon Aerodrome.
When Task Force Ranger and the SAR team were pinned down during a raid in what later became known as the Battle of Mogadishu, 10th Mountain units provided infantry for the UN quick reaction force sent to rescue them.
When Smith was unmasked as the notorious pirate John Gow he sought to escape the attentions of the authorities by making for Eday via a raid on Hall of Clestrain, in Orphir.
When the authorities raid the house where they are hiding, the fugitives steal a Carabinieri helicopter parked on the front lawn and escape by air.
When John VI became co-emperor ( 1347 – 1354 ) he allowed Orhan to raid the peninsula of Gallipoli which gained the Ottomans their first stronghold in Europe.
When Nathan B. Forrest led a raid against Memphis, Tennessee in 1864, Washburn was forced to flee his headquarters in his nightshirt to avoid capture, finding refuge in Fort Pickering.
When the police raid his mother's apartment, she has a heart attack, leaving her in an even weaker state.
When a police raid in 1987 released the children held by an Australian cult known as The Family, one twelve year old girl weighed under 20 kg ( 44 lbs ) and was under 120 cm ( 4 ft ) tall.
When Police Chief Charles Gain heard about the unauthorized Elephant Walk raid, he immediately went to the location and ordered his men to leave.
When Castor ( as Archer ) learns of the prison break, he suspects that Archer will connect with his gang, and leads an FBI raid of his headquarters.

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