When an ordinary free man accepted Islam, despite opposition, he would enjoy the protection of his tribe.

When this gene was inserted into tomato and tobacco cells ( see RNA interference ), the cells were able to withstand environmental stresses like salt, drought, cold and heat, far more than ordinary cells.

When the Greek astronomer Ptolemy's Almagest was translated from Greek to Arabic, the translator Johannitius ( following Alberuni ) did not know the Greek word and rendered it as the nearest-looking Arabic word, writing العصى ذات الكلاب in ordinary unvowelled Arabic text " al -` aşā dhāt al-kullāb ", which means " the spearshaft having a hook ".

When the nets were inspected, the " rods " were no more than regular moths and other ordinary flying insects.

When matter ( ordinary material particles ) is changed into energy ( such as energy of motion, or into radiation ), the mass of the system does not change through the transformation process.

When the domain of the input function is time ( t ), and the domain of the output function is ordinary frequency, the transform of function s ( t ) at frequency ƒ is given by the complex number:

When you had trade unions, ordinary people, rank and file, never been on television, never been interviewed, and they're not allowed to be heard, that's scandalous.

* When conducted by an ordinary electric cable, RF current has a tendency to reflect from discontinuities in the cable such as connectors and travel back down the cable toward the source, causing a condition called standing waves, so RF current must be carried by specialized types of cable called transmission line.

When dealing with situations on an ordinary human scale, Newtonian physics has been so enormously successful that it has no competition.

* When the subring is isomorphic to the ordinary complex number plane, then g acts as a rotation and preserves the Euclidean angle.

When n < sub > e </ sub > < n < sub > o </ sub >, as in calcite, the extraordinary axis is called the fast axis and the ordinary axis is called the slow axis.

When an antihydrogen atom comes into contact with ordinary matter, its constituents quickly annihilate.

In the 1983 " Liber Hymnarius " from Solesmes, it is stated that, " When an ordinary syllable is set to one note, this represents the fundamental rhythmic value used in Gregorian chant ( i. e. valor syllabicus medius ).

The latter example leads to a generalization of modules over rings: If C is a preadditive category, then Mod ( C ) := Add ( C, Ab ) is called the module category over C. When C is the one-object preadditive category corresponding to the ring R, this reduces to the ordinary category of ( left ) R-modules.

When specializing to the preadditive categories of abelian groups or modules over a ring, this notion of kernel coincides with the ordinary notion of a kernel of a homomorphism, if one identifies the ordinary kernel K of f: A → B with its embedding K → A.

When travelling, a priest could take one with him and place it on an ordinary table for saying Mass.

When a substantial number of copies of an electrical transcription were required, as for the distribution of a syndicated program, they were produced by the same process used to make ordinary records.

When the ordinary citizen of Ancient Greece read inscriptions and the educated Greek read literature, what they saw was an all upper case Ionic alphabet: Α, Β, Γ, Δ, etc.

When the term generating function is used without qualification, it is usually taken to mean an ordinary generating function.

When lu kan shih ( zinc carbonate, calamine ) or wo chhein ( zinc metal ) is mixed and combined with chih thung ( copper ), one gets ' yellow bronze ' ( ordinary brass ).

When something out of the ordinary occurs, usually something unfortunate, to an individual, the Azande may blame witchcraft, just as non-Zande people might blame " bad luck ".

When criticized, the U. S. military's response was to point out that these men were no ordinary combatants, and to express hope that confirmation of the deaths would bring closure to the Iraqi people.

When in 1816 an act of Congress forced the foreign firm out of the United States, its British-born employees, now become American citizens -- Joseph Rolette, Joseph Renville and Alexis Bailly -- continued in the fur business.

When the ambassadors of the Senate, entreating for peace, tried to intimidate him with hints of what the despairing citizens might accomplish, he laughed and gave his celebrated answer: " The thicker the hay, the easier mowed!

When Cesare eventually took power, he was viewed by the citizens as a great improvement.

When the citizens see the meaningless battle, they put aside their differences, whether they are from the colonies or from Earth, and form what becomes the Earth Sphere Unified Nation.

When the war ended in May 1945, as many as two million former Russian citizens were forcefully repatriated into the USSR.

When the curia did nothing, he spoke to the city's leading citizens, trying to persuade them to take action.

When Chrysostom arrived in Antioch, the bishop of the city had to intervene with Emperor Theodosius I on behalf of citizens who had gone on a rampage mutilating statues of the Emperor and his family.

When drafting the resolution, the Utah Legislature gave many reasons to recognize Jell-O, including that Utah had been the highest per capita consumer of Jell-O for many years, and how citizens of Utah had rallied to " Take Back the Title " after Des Moines, Iowa exceeded Utah in Jell-O consumption in 1999.

When the Normans had control of Maine, William the Conqueror was able to invade England successfully ; however in 1069 the citizens revolted and expelled the Normans, which led to Hugh being proclaimed count of Maine.

When the U. S. Legation asked President Adolfo Díaz to ensure the safety of American citizens and property during the insurrection, Díaz replied that he could not and that ...

When the lawfulness of annuities was established, they were widely used in commerce ; it seems that city states used them to raise compulsory loans from their citizens.

When Matilda advanced to London in an effort to stage her coronation in June, though, she faced an uprising by the local citizens in support of Stephen that forced her to flee to Oxford, uncrowned.

When the union with Sweden was dissolved in 1905, the university became important for producing highly educated men and women who could serve as experts in a society which placed increasing emphasis on ensuring that all its citizens enjoy a life of dignity and security.

When danger loomed, all the burghers ( citizens ) in a district would form a military unit called a commando and would elect officers.

When a house accidentally burnt down, military and impoverished citizens started slaughtering and pillaging the Chinese community.

When the French Revolution broke out, the population of Avignon and of the Comtat Venaissin turned out the papal officials and declared themselves French citizens.

When they had reached Teegeeack, the paralyzed citizens were unloaded around the bases of volcanoes across the planet.

When Belgium was invaded, the citizens of Lille, still marked by the events of the First World War, began to flee the city in large numbers.

When disillusioned American citizens living in the Soviet Union thronged the gates of the U. S. embassy in Moscow to plead for new U. S. passports to leave USSR ( Stalin had taken their original U. S. passports for ' registration ' purposes years before ), none were issued.

When directed to do so, Mussolini provided Germany with Italian citizens to work as forced laborers.

When reports of an army cover-up and Dreyfus's possible innocence were leaked to the press, a heated debate ensued about anti-Semitism, France's identity as a Catholic nation and a republic founded on equal rights for all citizens.

When reports of an army cover-up and Dreyfus's possible innocence were leaked to the press, a heated debate ensued about anti-Semitism, and France's identity as a Catholic nation and a republic founded on equal rights for all citizens.

When Cornelius died in 1880, aged 90, he was a very respected family man but over time he has been honored by the citizens of Duckburg as the " father " of the city.

When in 559 BC the citizens of Megara Heraclea ( today's Eregli ), they built a temple over the spot he was buried.

When finally granted by the emperor as a sign of his sharing his authority and giving rights and liberties to his subjects, the 1889 Constitution of the Empire of Japan ( the Meiji Constitution ) provided for the Imperial Diet ( Teikoku Gikai ), composed of a popularly elected House of Representatives with a very limited franchise of male citizens who were over twenty-five years of age and paid fifteen yen in national taxes, about one percent of the population, and the House of Peers, composed of nobility and imperial appointees ; and a cabinet responsible to the emperor and independent of the legislature.