When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he added to his Pittsburgh commitments the directorship of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1958, he conducted one hundred fifty concerts within nine months, `` commuting '' between the two cities.

When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.

When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.

When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.

When it was not, one of the great dramas of Washington would be presented.

When one powerful nation strives to emulate the success of another, it is only natural.

When he was in the war, he was in Law or Supplies or something like that, and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals -- just like the one we sent in for Trig -- and go away with a real glow.

When something unexpected happened, one always asked for water if one were a woman, brandy if one were a man.

When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;

When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.

When it is needed, one formula is as important as another.

When mold has more than one design cavity, make individual paper patterns.

When changing from one color to another, whether working on right or wrong side, pick up the new strand from underneath dropped strand.

`` When working from one of my sketches I square it up and project its linear form freehand to the watercolor sheet with charcoal.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.

When now we count the frequency of the 71 items in the two language families appearing in the same column or grade, or one column or grade apart, or two or three or four, we find these differences: Af

When held in correct manner, the thumb applies the necessary power to generate the desired sound.

When the hydrophobic image is loaded with ink, the stone and paper are run through a press which applies even pressure over the surface, transferring the ink to the paper and off the stone.

When the logical system is equipped with this order, it is possible to restrict the scope of a generalization such as " All ravens are black " so that it applies to ravens only and not to non-black things, since the order privileges ravens over non-black things.

When a device is taken off-hook, it applies a ringing voltage to the circuit.

When appearing separately, the term " contralto " applies only to female singers ; men whose voices fall in the same range or higher are known as " countertenors.

( When this stipulation applies only to Black, it is a semi-reflexmate.

When used, it applies to pieces in reserve as well ; they are considered dropped after contact has been made with an empty square.

When a school applies for accreditation for its MBA programs, AMBA requires that the entire portfolio of MBA programs be put up for consideration ( See diagram on the right ) and will award accreditation only if all programs meet the organization's criteria ( though the school pays the same fee regardless of the number of programs being reviewed ).

When a state statute regarding safety matters applies equally to interstate and intrastate commerce, the courts are generally reluctant to invalidate it even if it may have some impact on interstate commerce.

When it is put into a near vertical dive, the lift from the wings and horizontal tail are no longer balanced and cause the aircraft to return to level flight, tracking across the target unless the pilot applies considerable force to keep the nose down, with a corresponding decrease in accuracy.

When the engineer ( driver ) applies the brake by operating the locomotive brake valve, the train line vents to atmosphere at a controlled rate, reducing the train line pressure and in turn triggering the triple valve on each car to feed air into its brake cylinder.

When a system expels mass in one direction, the force the expelled mass applies to the system is called thrust ; the force the system applies to the mass being expelled is of equal magnitude but opposite direction.

When the air is saturated with water vapor ( at its dew point ), the moist adiabatic lapse rate ( MALR ) or saturated adiabatic lapse rate ( SALR ) applies.

When a tract of land is purchased with a mortgage and then split up and sold, the " inverse order of alienation rule " applies to decide parties liable for the unpaid debt.

When the derivative of F is invertible at a point p, it is also invertible in a neighborhood of p, and hence the rank of the derivative is constant, so the constant rank theorem applies.

When a country formally applies for membership, the Council asks the Commission to prepare an opinion on the country's readiness to begin negotiations.

When an applicant applies to a law school, all scores from the past five years are reported.

When Cordelia Frost ( younger sister of Emma ) applies for membership to the Inner Circle, Shinobi states that the title of White Queen is already taken.

When ESC detects loss of steering control, it automatically applies the brakes to help " steer " the vehicle where the driver intends to go.

When assessing whether a party should be offered legal assistance, the adjudicator should first ask whether the right to be heard applies, and, secondly, whether counsel's assistance is needed for an effective hearing given the subject matter, bearing in mind the consequences of such a denial.

When installed at purchase, the car's 4 year / warranty applies to the package as well.

When the press felt exits the nip and continues around, a vacuum box known as an Uhle Box applies vacuum ( normally-60 kPa ) to the press felt to remove the moisture so that when the felt returns to the nip on the next cycle, it does not add moisture to the sheet.

When Kawara finishes a painting, he applies a swatch of the paint mixture he used to a small rectangle that is then glued onto a chart in the journal.