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 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 referring to hydrography and nautical charting in Conventions and similar Instruments, it is the IHO standards and specifications that are normally used.

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 the total number of mandates gained by a party has been determined, they are distributed between the Land lists.

When a tile of this pair is played individually in the game of Tien Gow, each takes its regular ranking among other military suit tiles according to the total points.

When a multi-component liquid is heated, the vapor pressure of each component will rise, thus causing the total vapor pressure to rise.

When the total vapor pressure reaches the pressure surrounding the liquid, boiling occurs and liquid turns to gas throughout the bulk of the liquid.

When Alton moved on to choreograph One for the Money he hired Kelly to act, sing and dance in a total of eight routines.

They cultivated only those arts which could add splendor to the nation, to the neglect of those which supported it – They neglected Trade & substantial Manufacture ... but does it follow that a total revolution is necessary that because we have given ourselves up too much to the ornaments of life, we will now have none at all ". When attending a dinner at Holland House, Fox's niece Caroline was sat next to Reynolds and " burst out into glorification of the Revolution – and was grievously chilled and checked by her neighbour's cautious and unsympathetic tone ".

When observed from farther away, the image of the rows of pixels still merge, but the total image becomes smaller as the distance increases.

When gates are cascaded, the total propagation delay is approximately the sum of the individual delays, an effect which can become a problem in high-speed circuits.

When the Vikings played the Chicago Bears in the first of their two games, Peterson broke the record for single game All-Purpose ( rushing, receiving, kick returning ) yards ( 361 total yards, 224 rushing ).

When considered together, the object and the mass constitute a closed system in which total momentum is conserved.

When integrated over the radius, this implies that for b = 1, the total number of stars is proportional to r < sup > 2 </ sup >.

When a flock of this huge a size established itself in an area, the number of local animal predators ( such as wolves, foxes, weasels, and hawks ) was so small compared to the total number of birds that little damage would be inflicted on the flock as a whole.

When there is less than total information about the state of a quantum system we need density matrices to represent the state.

When looking only at expressways the National Trunk Highway System ( NTHS ) in China has a total length of at the end of 2006, and 60, 300 km at the end of 2008, second only to the United States with in 2005.

When the total weight becomes zero, all references have been destroyed.

When both parasites are present, the losses would normally be expected to total less than 20 %, yet, in some cases, losses are significantly greater.

When the first married individual dies, the trust pays out to the beneficiaries an amount up to the total unified credit.

When Harry Met Sally ... grossed a total of US $ 92. 8 million in North America.

When the formula is applied to each lifter's overall total and then grouped along with the other competitors ' and evaluated, it provides a numeric result which determines the competition's best overall men's and women's lifters.

When distributions are made the taxable portion of the distribution will be calculated as the ratio of the non-Roth contributions to the total 401 ( k ) basis.

When the IFC's Board of Directors votes on matters brought before it, each executive director's vote is weighted according to the total share capital of the member countries represented by that director.

When Bizri led a second Syrian delegation composed of military officers on January 11, 1958, and personally discouraged Syro-Egyptian unity, Nasser opted for a total merger.

When the total number of jobs or enrollment slots is fixed, this proportion may get translated to a specific number.

When measuring disposable income after taxation but including benefits, the total disposable income of those on the highest incomes fell by 33 %, whilst the total disposable income of those on the lowest incomes rose by 104 %.