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 scholars specify the pitch range of instruments with this kind of short octave, they write " C / E ", meaning that the lowest note is a C, played on a key that normally would sound E.

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 they stood about his tent, chaffing each other, exchanging their obscenities, cursing command or weather, he had studied their faces.

When they reached adulthood, Aedesia accompanied her sons to Athens where they studied under Proclus.

When this field is instead studied using the QED vacuum of quantum electrodynamics, it is seen that the plates do affect the virtual photons which constitute the field, and generate a net force — either an attraction or a repulsion depending on the specific arrangement of the two plates.

When studied carefully, it has not been impossible to detect an ongoing viral infection in the muscles.

When linguists study the lexicon, they consider such things as what constitutes a word ; the word-concept relationship ; lexical access and lexical access failure ; how a word's phonology, syntax, and meaning intersect ; the morphology-word relationship ; vocabulary structure within a given language ; language use ( that is, pragmatics ); language acquisition ; the history and evolution of words ( i. e. etymology ); and the relationships between words, often studied within philosophy of language.

When he later studied English, he decided that the international language must have a simpler grammar.

When theories are studied in mathematics, they are usually expressed in some formal language and their statements are closed under application of certain procedures called rules of inference.

As Tanenbaum said in Operating Systems ( 1987 ): " When AT & T released Version 7, it began to realize that UNIX was a valuable commercial product, so it issued Version 7 with a license that prohibited the source code from being studied in courses, in order to avoid endangering its status as a trade secret.

When filming on location around the world, Quinn was exposed to regional contemporary art styles exhibited at local galleries and studied art history in each area.

When a person leaves the place where they worked or studied, they may leave behind logons with access to networks.

When he studied in Viborg ( Viipuri ) he assumed the surname Agricola (" farmer " gv.

When studied outside the cell, the slowest folding proteins require many minutes or hours to fold primarily due to proline isomerization, and must pass through a number of intermediate states, like checkpoints, before the process is complete.

When Mullá ` Alí Basṭámí, the second Letter of the Living, was put on trial in Baghdad for preaching about the Báb, the clerics studied the Commentary on the Surih of Joseph, recognized in it a claim to divine revelation, and quoted from it extensively to prove that the author had made a messianic claim.

When he left the RAF he studied at RADA, which he attended from 1954 to 1956.

When his family fled Spain, for Fez, Maimonides enrolled in the Academy of Fez and studied under Rabbi Yehuda Ha-Kohen Ibn Soussan-a student of Isaac Alfasi.

When he heard that the Guide of the Perplexed was being studied in the Muslim philosophical schools of Fez, he left for that town ( in 1332 ) in order to observe their method of study.

When he wasn't playing, Dunn studied how the game worked from the sidelines.

When shown the next card, he studied it for a moment then he said with a deadpan face, " It's upside down.

When the Nazis came to power in Germany, Wolpe, a Jew and a convinced communist, fled the country, passing through Romania and Russia en route to Austria in 1933-34, where he met and studied with Anton Webern.

" When young, I studied the way of the former kings.

When asked to recall the list, participants were just as, if not more, likely to recall semantically related words ( such as sweet ) than items that were actually studied, thus creating false memories.

When not re-elected as student association president, he returned to Freiburg University, and studied, with particular attention to the lectures of Heinrich Rickert ; in that time he travelled to France and Italy.

When the Liberal Reform Bill was being debated in 1866, Cranborne studied the census returns to see how each clause in the Bill would affect the electoral prospects in each seat.

When Covey studied as an MBA student at Harvard, he would on occasion preach to crowds on Boston Common.

When Sade was 11, she moved to Holland-on-Sea to live with her mother, and after completing school at 18 she moved to London and studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.