When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.

When the word for onion, chung, is used, it is understood that one is referring to " green onions " ( otherwise known to English-speakers as scallions or spring onions, green onions ).

When referring to total energy output, the proper term is bolometric magnitude.

When animators or interface designers talk about the " physics " or " feel " of an operation, they may be referring to the particular Bézier curve used to control the velocity over time of the move in question.

When referring to parallelism in CPUs, two terms are generally used to classify these design techniques.

When referring to cannon, the term gun is often used incorrectly.

When referring to relatives with the same surname the form " The Doctors Smith " can be used.

When the police use search warrants in connection with a vandalism investigation they are often seeking judicial approval to look for items such as cans of spray paint and nozzles from other kinds of aerosol sprays, etching tools or other sharp or pointed objects used to etch or scratch glass and other hard surfaces, and permanent marking pens, such as markers or paint sticks ; evidence of membership or affiliation with any gang or tagging crew, paraphernalia to include any reference to “( tagger ’ s name ),” and any drawings, writings, objects or graffiti depicting taggers ’ names, initials, logos, monikers, slogans, or mention of tagging crew membership ; any newspaper clippings relating details of or referring to any graffiti crime.

When people say that the genome of a sexually reproducing species has been " sequenced ", typically they are referring to a determination of the sequences of one set of autosomes and one of each type of sex chromosome, which together represent both of the possible sexes.

When referring to disk storage capacities it usually means 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > bytes, often stated explicitly on the manufacturer's permanent sticker.

When referring to RAM sizes it most often ( see binary prefix adoption ) has a binary interpretation of 1024 < sup > 3 </ sup > bytes, i. e. as an alias for gibibyte.

When Harnad wanted to write about all-rights-reserved gratis articles, he was faced with the option of referring to them as " open access " ( in contravention of the BBB definitions ) or redefining " open access " to include non-libre works.

When he said property is theft, he was referring to the capitalist who he believed stole profit from laborers.

When referring to the territory, the word concelho is used, when referring to the organ of State, the word município is used.

When referring to an n-dimensional generalization, the term n-polytope is used.

When Hutchinson claimed all materials were property of the British Crown, a French scholar, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, said to Clarke and Hamilton that they would rather burn all their discoveries — referring ominously to the destruction of the Library of Alexandria — than turn them over.

When Dorian is telling Lord Henry Wotton about his new ' love ', Sibyl Vane, he refers to all of the Shakespearean plays she has been in, referring to her as the heroine of each play.

When referring to other publications that include locations in their names, it uses italics only for the " non-location " portion of the name, such as the Los Angeles Times or the Chicago Tribune.

" When referring to the ideas related to Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society, the word " Theosophy " is capitalized ; otherwise it is not.

When referring to those who made their service as a courtesan as their main source of income, success was based solely on financial management and longevity.

When referring to government control of private corporations such as Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae, conservatorship implies a more temporary control than does nationalization.

When questioned by his captain, Spender replies " We'll rip it up, rip the skin off, and change it to fit ourselves ... We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things ", referring to Earth.

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

When long distance aviation or nautical routes are drawn on a flat map ( for instance, the Mercator projection ), they often look curved.

When linked, Atlantis and Mir formed the largest spacecraft ever in orbit, with a total mass of about 225 metric tons ( almost one-half million pounds ), orbiting some 218 nautical miles () above the Earth.

When generated by light wind in open water, a nautical name for them is " cat's paw " waves, since they may resemble paw prints.

When the range to the radar-SART is reduced to about 1 nautical mile ( 2 km ), the radar display may show also the 12 responses generated during the fast sweeps.

Parker also wrote a nautical ballad, Sailors for my Money, which in a revised version survives as When the stormy winds do blow.

When Hamilton, a centrally located port founded in 1790, became the seat of government in 1815, it was partly resultant from the Royal Navy having invested twelve years, following American independence, in charting Bermuda's reefs.

However, Scarbury could not follow the song's success, and after charting at # 49 with a follow-up single " When She Dances ", he once again disappeared from the charts.

Brooks also released several singles through the independent Avion label, charting at number 73 on Hot Country Songs in 1983 with " Baby, When Your Heart Breaks Down ".

It also produced five charting singles, three of which made number one on the country charts: " She's Not the Cheatin ' Kind ", " Little Miss Honky Tonk " and " You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone ".

During the mid 1960s the Contours recorded several records which received R & B radio play, notably " First I Look at the Purse " ( written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Bobby Rogers ), " Can You Jerk Like Me " and its charting flip side, the Smokey Robinson written-and-produced " That Day When She Needed Me ", and " Just a Little Misunderstanding ", but were considered secondary to Motown's major male vocal groups: The Temptations, The Four Tops, and The Miracles.

The album's single " When the Night Feels My Song " was the band's breakthrough single on Canadian radio, charting No. 1 on 102. 1 The Edge CFNY and gaining airplay on commercial radio stations throughout Canada in the summer of 2005.

When " One of Us " was released as a single in the United States in February 1983, it proved to be ABBA's worst ever performing charting song in that territory, reaching a high of # 107, though it should be pointed out that the song was released over a year after its release elsewhere and ABBA had disbanded by this time.

When the mapping and charting functions originally assigned to the 55th Reconnaissance Group were transferred on May 1, 1954, the wing assumed the mission of global strategic reconnaissance, including electronic reconnaissance.

When Captain Frederick Mallet was charting and surveying the island of Trinidad following its capitulation to the British in 1797, he was told that the village had no name.

When Conventions were resumed in 1946, Ralph W. Nusser, Z ' 28, was elected Grand Regent.

When landmines were not marked or reported, or when they are disguised, they are perfidious per the Geneva Conventions, annex 10 October 1980:

When and if they use their arms offensively, or carry arms that qualify as offensive, they then sacrifice their protection under the Geneva Conventions.

When the UN classifies ( or re-classifies ) a substance under one of the above Conventions, it requires signatory countries to amend their domestic legislation to ensure consistency with the UN ’ s amendment.

When the Geneva Conventions were updated in 1949 after the Second World War, delegates sought to define certain minimum humanitarian standards to situations that had all the characteristics of war, without being an international war.