When France was negotiating with the Netherlands about purchasing Luxembourg in 1867, the Prussian Kingdom threatened the French government with war.

When his new landlords expressed skepticism about the network and its fly-by-night reputation, Paley overcame their qualms by purchasing a lease for $ 1, 500, 000.

" When GEC put MES up for sale on 22 December 1998, BAE abandoned the DASA merger in favour of purchasing its British rival.

When the U. S. Navy hesitated about endorsing a possible film and aiding the production, studios shied away from purchasing the film rights to Herman Wouk's novel.

When informed that the Motion Picture Editors Guild required an editor credit, he suggested Donn Cambern who had been editing another film, Drive, He Said ( 1971 ) in the next office and had helped Bogdanovich with some purchasing paperwork concerning the film's opticals.

When the concept of financial capital maintenance is defined in terms of constant purchasing power units, profit represents the increase in invested purchasing power over the period.

When purchasing a knife for this purpose ( or any ritual tool ) it is considered important never to haggle over the price.

When SFM opened, EMP and SFM were treated as separate museums, and visitors had the option of purchasing admission to one museum, or, at a higher cost, a combined admission to both.

When purchasing taboo goods and services, anonymity makes many potential consumers more comfortable with or more willing to engage in the transaction.

When purchasing gasoline, a driver had to present a gas card along with a ration book and cash.

When I suggested purchasing a home, he told me he didn't want the responsibility.

When the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was conceived, Rare limited their releases to some Battletoads games and decided to invest their significant NES profit in purchasing expensive Silicon Graphics workstations.

When purchasing a drug under the PBS the maximum price a consumer pays is the patient co-payment contribution which, as of January 1, 2012 is A $ 35. 40 for general patients.

When purchasing paint or tires in many places, one simultaneously pays for the disposal of the toxic waste they become.

When first purchasing units, the player will find that he can only purchase a limited type of units, due to the lack of " Influence ".

When purchasing an international money order, it is important to ensure that the specific type of money order is acceptable in the destination country.

When the funds are available, Commanders can build new bases by purchasing a constructor drone.

When purchasing food for the people in hiding, Miep avoided suspicion in many ways, for example by visiting several different suppliers a day.

When consumers arrived at Plymouth ( and Dodge ) dealers, they were shocked to find that the Reliant they were planning on purchasing would end up costing hundreds or thousands of dollars more.

When one gets nutrition information from the media, one is getting it from the food industry and companies that stand to benefit from customers purchasing their products.

When he died in 1915, his will provided that upon the deaths of his wife and daughter, the proceeds of his entire estate would go to purchasing artwork for public enjoyment.

When local artist Bob Cassilly ( founder of the private, non-profit City Museum ) approached the city government with a $ 200, 000 downpayment toward purchasing the building, Civic Progress pressured the city government to hurriedly demolish it, which they did, over general public objection, through a controlled implosion on February 27, 1999.

When purchasing a medication under the PBS the maximum price a consumer pays is the patient co-payment contribution which, as of January 1, 2011 is A $ 34. 20 for general patients.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

When founded by Franklin the Gazette was a weekly family newspaper and under its new name its format remained that of a newspaper but its columns gradually contained more and more fiction, poetry, and literary essays.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

When Papa went out to do God's work, Stevie often accompanied him in the buggy, which was drawn by Violet, the new black mare.

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

When Prokofieff forged his new clarity of `` lucid, straightforward music, so difficult to compose '', he shaped his talents to his purpose.

When negotiating with your union, do you make sure employees have a choice between new benefits and their cents-per-hour cost in wages.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

When I speculated on one such occasion that the new growth, like other mutations, might be unable to propagate, I was immediately accused of preaching racial prejudice.

When no medical problems exist, the newly married couple generally prefer to cope with the adjustments of their new relationship by themselves.

When he had the mishap of breaking his spectacles, his ecumenical colleagues insisted on providing him with new ones.

When he was made a vice president only a year after the new sales job, a leading business magazine ran his photograph with a brief biography in a series on national business leaders of the future.

When Lindburgh saw the crudeness of Carrel's machinery, he offered to build new equipment for the scientist.

When a vacancy occurred, the bishop of the diocese chose the abbot out of the monks of the convent, but the right of election was transferred by jurisdiction to the monks themselves, reserving to the bishop the confirmation of the election and the benediction of the new abbot.

When the Macdonald government fell due to the Pacific scandal in 1873, the Governor General, Lord Dufferin, called upon Mackenzie, who had been chosen as the leader of the Liberal Party a few months earlier, to form a new government.

When back in Rome, Caesar deposited a new will with the Vestal Virgins, naming Octavius as the prime beneficiary.

When the Jacobin faction seized control of the Revolutionary government in 1792, Jean-Jacques Ampère resisted the new political tides, and he was guillotined on November 24, 1793, as part of the Jacobin purges of the period.

When the campaigns in Africa were over, Afonso V found new grounds for battle in the Iberian Peninsula.

When the valley was flooded by the Haditha Dam at Haditha in 1984-85, the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities cut it into sections, and removed it to the new ' Anah where it was re-erected at the end of the 1980s.

When Selkirk's clothes wore out, he made new garments from goatskin using a nail for sewing.

When his friend, the British publicist William T. Stead, asked him to create a new organization for the goal of a peace and arbitration society, his reply was as such:

When AppleNet was cancelled in October, Sidhu led an effort to develop a new networking system based on the AppleBus hardware.

When the merger took place, all ten AFL franchises became part of the merged league's new American Football Conference ( AFC ), with three teams from the original 16-team NFL ( the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Baltimore Colts ) joining them.

When Afzal Khan died at the end of the year, Azam Khan became the new ruler, with Abdur Rahman as his governor in the northern province.

When the original digital signature generating software was turned over to the Atari community, development of new Atari 7800 titles began.