When the Confucian advisers pressed their point, Li Ssu had many Confucian scholars killed and their books burned — considered a huge blow to the philosophy and Chinese scholarship.

* John R. Hale, et al., " Questioning the Delphic Oracle: When science meets religion at this ancient Greek site, the two turn out to be on better terms than scholars had originally thought ", in Scientific American August 2003

When they complained that a fee was charged for attending his lecture at the University and that hitherto, lectures by visiting scholars had been free-of-charge, Friedman replied that previous lectures had not been free-of-charge in a meaningful sense: Lectures always have related costs.

When text has a significant political or religious influence ( such as the reconstruction of Biblical texts ), scholars have difficulty reaching objective conclusions.

When Cardinal Wolsey, the king's Lord Chancellor, selected several Cambridge scholars, including Edward Lee, Stephen Gardiner and Richard Sampson, to be diplomats throughout Europe, Cranmer was chosen to take a minor role in the English embassy in Spain.

Paul Johnson writes in Modern Times: " When in 1964 the Harding Papers ( which had not been burnt ) were opened to scholars, no truth at all was found in any of the myths, though it emerged that Harding, a pathetically shy man with women, had a sad and touching friendship with the wife of a Marion store-owner before his presidency.

In this position, Ben-Gurion played a major role in the 1948 Arab – Israeli War When the IDF archives and others were opened in the late 1980s, scholars started to reconsider the events and the role of Ben-Gurion.

When Degas invited Whistler to exhibit with the first show by the Impressionists in 1874, Whistler turned down the invitation, as did Manet, and some scholars attributed this in part to Fantin-Latour's influence on both men.

When scholars attempted to account for this exotic image they have been forced to search farther afield:

When discussing Chinese writers, Chinese and Japanese scholars do not consistently use particular names, whether they are private names or alternative names.

When the monument was being reconstructed at its present site, Edmund Buchner and other scholars sketched what the panel may have looked like.

When scholars first encountered them in the early 20th century, they thought that the Lacandon were the direct descendants of ancient Classic Maya people who fled into the rainforest at the time of the Spanish Conquest and remained linguistically and culturally pristine ever since.

When comparing the contemporary segregation of Mexican Americans to that of Black Americans, some scholars claim that " Latino segregation is less severe and fundamentally different than Black residential segregation.

When discussing the Mormon Christian belief in eternal progression, various Mormon and non-LDS scholars generally refer to a couplet written by Lorenzo Snow, the fifth president of the LDS Church, which states as follows:

When Greek-writing Jewish scholars compiled the Septuagint, the adaptations chosen for these names ( for whatever reason ) were Εβερ Heber and Εβραιος Hebraios.

When Duke Xiao came to the throne of Qin, he issued an announcement, calling forth men of talent ( including scholars, administrators, theorists and militarists ) from other states to enter Qin and help him with his reforms, promising rewards of high offices and lands in return.

When scholars applied Ptolemy's epicycles, they presumed that each planetary sphere was exactly thick enough to accommodate them.

When they were discovered and deciphered in the early twentieth century, these records confirmed the existence of the Shang, which some scholars had until then doubted.

When Christ says to turn the other cheek, Tolstoy asserts that he means simply that and rejects the interpretations of Roman and medieval scholars who attempted to limit its scope, writing:

When fellow scholars find Faustus the next morning, he is torn limb from limb, with his soul carried off to hell.

When they were recovered in the 16th century, their initial publication caused a sensation among scholars.

When considering different programs that are on television, it makes sense that scholars would criticize Gerbner ’ s lack of categories.

" When the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, which had long served as the national nexus for raising and administering funds for area studies, underwent their first major restructuring in thirty years, closing down their area committees, scholars interpreted this as a massive signal about the changing research environment.

After the publication of her work, the historical community became divided between Murrayist and non-Murrayist scholars ; “ When the Witchcult in Western Europe appeared in 1921, it broke this deadlock ; yes, said Murray, witches had indeed been up to something of which society disapproved, but it was in no way supernatural ; they were merely members of an underground movement secretly keeping pagan rituals alive in Christian Europe .” Murray ’ s work became widely accepted and was considered an expert in witchcraft studies after its publication.

When analyzing the efficiency of algorithms that use stacks, one may also specify that all operations take the same time no matter how many items have been pushed into the stack, and that the stack uses a constant amount of storage for each element.

When used in scientific contexts, the term calorie refers to the small calorie ; it is often encountered in experimental calorimetry, and commonly used to specify bond and conformational energies in molecular modeling.

When describing a harpsichord it is customary to specify its choirs of strings, often called its disposition.

When Edward Witten named M-theory, he did not specify what the M stood for — perhaps because the nascent theory was not fully defined.

When dealing with functions of multiple variables, some of these variables may be related to each other, and it may be necessary to specify explicitly which variables are being held constant.

When implemented it allows the object to draw drag-and-drop effects, and to specify when the object is dropped, or the drag-and-drop operation is cancelled.

When implemented it allows the target to specify if a dropped object will be accepted, and what happens to an object after it is dropped.

When using Besselian years, specify which definition is being used.

When he registered for the draft, he answered the question " Do you claim exemption from draft ( specify grounds )?

When we specify the internal energy to be U, what we really mean is that the total energy of the gas lies somewhere in an interval of length around U. Here is taken to be very small, it turns out that the entropy doesn't depend strongly on the choice of for large N. This means that the above " area " must be extended to a shell of a thickness equal to an uncertainty in momentum, so the entropy is given by:

When modeling a car, for example, it is desirable to describe the center of each wheel with respect to the car's coordinate system, but then specify the shape of each wheel in separate local spaces centered about these points.

When discussing a tiling that is displayed in colors, to avoid ambiguity one needs to specify whether the colors are part of the tiling or just part of its illustration.

When the youth is sentenced to probation he or she is subject to certain conditions that may be imposed by the judge Under Section 55 ( 2 ) ( g ) the young offender may be told to “ reside at a place that the provincial director may specify ” This condition follows 2 other requirements that the young offender also needs to obey by a ) keep the peace and be of good behaviour ; and b ) appear by the youth justice court when required by the court to do so this stated in Section 55 ( 1 ).

For univariate algebraic equations these are also called roots, even if, properly speaking, one should say the solutions of the algebraic equation P = 0 are the roots of the polynomial P. When solving an equation, it is important to specify in which set the solutions are allowed.

When this is done, it is necessary to specify when classic Euler angles are referred, using an adjective like " proper " or similar.

When responding to a Likert questionnaire item, respondents specify their level of agreement or disagreement on a symmetric agree-disagree scale for a series of statements.

When a soldier is transferred to or from another unit, his or her orders specify an Effective Date Change Strength Accountability EDCSA pecifying the exact date that the soldier is counted as leaving one unit and officially entering the other.

When describing the angle of repose for a substance, always specify the method used.

When buying mustamakkara in the Tampere region it is customary to specify the amount of money to spend instead of weight, length or number of pieces.

When quoting an amount of substance, it is necessary to specify the entity involved, unless there is no risk of ambiguity.

When G is a discrete group, another way to specify the condition on X is that the universal cover Y of X is contractible.

When there is a need to specify the community at the mouth of the river, a specifier is usually used, such as " Bella Coola proper ", " downtown Bella Coola " or " the Bella Coola townsite ".

When a shell ( as with an output redirect ) or other program creates a file or directory, it may specify permissions to be granted, however, permissions that the file mode creation mask does not allow are removed.

2 When text should contain spaces, either specify these by using underscores or place the text between double quotes.