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When and Achaean
When the Aetolians call on Antiochus III for aid, Flamininus persuades the Achaean League to declare war on both parties.
When the Achaean League's general, Philopoemen, intervenes to try to control the rebellion, he is captured during a skirmish and imprisoned.
When he decided to sacrifice his daughter to Artemis, Diomedes and Odysseus were among the few Achaean officers familiar with his plans.
When all the Achaean seemed discouraged, Zeus sent an eagle as a good omen.
When news of this success reached Corinth, the Corinthians rose in rebellion, overthrew Antigonus ' party, and joined the Achaean League.

When and hostages
When the threat was ignored, the hostages were murdered.
When the two sides became tired of war, they came to a peace agreement and exchanged hostages.
When this scheme was revealed, Reagan admitted that he knew about Iranian " arms for hostages " dealings but professed ignorance about the proceeds funding the Contras ; for this, National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver North took much of the blame.
When Sheridan reported suffering attacks by irregular Confederate cavalry under John S. Mosby, Grant recommended rounding up their families for imprisonment as hostages at Ft. McHenry.
When the shooting began, the terrorists told their hostages to lean forward in the theater seats and cover their heads behind the seats.
When this failed to appear, he turned back to Essex House, hoping to use his hostages as a negotiation tool.
When it became apparent that Godwin would be returning, Robert quickly left England with Bishop Ulf of Dorcester and Bishop William of London, probably once again taking Wulfnoth and Hakon with him as hostages, whether with the permission of King Edward or not.
When Calcutta dispatched troops anyway, Mir Qasim executed the hostages.
When the pilot announced they were out of Iran the " freed hostages went wild with happiness.
When the six-man international UN commission came to Iran they were not allowed to see the hostages, and President Abolhassan Banisadr retreated from his criticism of the hostage takers, praising them as " young patriots ".
When his own son Louis I, Duc d ' Anjou ( one of the hostages ) escaped from England in 1362, John II gave himself up.
When Kildare became viceroy in 1524, Ó Néill consented to act as his swordbearer in ceremonies of state ; but his allegiance was not to be reckoned upon, and while ready enough to give verbal assurances of loyalty, he could not be persuaded to give hostages as security for his conduct.
: This conclusion seems to be associated with the following text: " When one of the hostages was released early because of medical conditions and shown the information we had accumulated, he was enraged.
When Fflamddwyn demands hostages, Owain shouts defiance and inspires the men of Rheged to fight rather than give tribute to the English.
When Dillinger and the man identified as Floyd ( not confirmed ) emerged from the bank with sacks containing $ 28, 000, they brought three hostages with them ( including the bank president ) to deter gunfire from three patrolmen on the scene.
When these negotiations failed, the Athenians retained possession of the Spartan ships on a pretext, and settled in to besiege the hoplites on Sphacteria ; eventually, in the Battle of Sphacteria, those hoplites were captured and taken as hostages to Athens.
When the terrorist cell strikes in the Castle in Milan and takes hostages, Team Rainbow is immediately brought onto the scene to deal with the threat.
When Charles II of Naples was taken prisoner in Italy, during the war with King Peter III of Aragon that followed the Sicilian Vespers, he obtained his own freedom by giving over his three sons as hostages.
When Bolsheviks were arrested and the move was overturned, he was probably responsible for ordering the arrest of Romania's representative to Petrograd, Constantin I. Diamandy, and his entire staff ( all of whom were used as hostages, pending the release of prisoners taken in Iaşi ).
The tensions between John and barons finally began to spill over into war in 1215, and Prince Louis of France led an invasion to England and claimed English throne, as his consort Blanche was a maternal granddaughter of Henry II, whilst the Pope argued Eleanor had a better claim than his. When the Magna Carta was issued that year, it was demanded that all hostages held by John including Scottish princesses and Welsh be released, however, it had nothing to do with Eleanor, a proof that the rights of the females was somehow overlooked.
When the Nazis occupied Warsaw, they demanded 12 hostages from the population to prevent further resistance.
When she was six years old, Illyana was abducted and brought to the United States by Arcade, who used her and several other hostages to coerce the X-Men to assist him in opposing Doctor Doom.
When the chopper is full, no more hostages will attempt to board ; they will wave the helicopter off and wait ( hopefully ) for its return.
When the reporters did not arrive at the arranged time, five other hostages were shot to death on Basayev's order.

When and were
When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.
When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.
When they were ready to leave, Benson and Ramey walked back around the rear of the trailer.
When they reached the school, a gang of boys and girls were already there playing `` crack the whip '' in front of the schoolhouse.
When these had been pocketed, we could still spend a morning cracking open other pebbles for our delight in seeing how much prettier they were inside than their dull exteriors indicated.
When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.
When Prudence and Blackberry were too young to be trusted in the dining room, they were tied to the radiator with their leashes, and they would cry.
When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.
When their levies came shambling into camp, they were all elbows, hair, and beard.
When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.
When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.
When these chores were finished, only then, was she allowed whatever freedom she could find.
When Sir Edward Greville enclosed the town commons on the Bancroft, Quiney and others leveled his hedges on January 21, 1600/1, and were charged with riot by Sir Edward.
When it was over, eight of his company were still alive and all eight were wounded.
When the stock exchange opened this morning, many dealers were quick to purchase shares in Douglas, Lockheed and United Aircraft and prices rose substantially.
When the end did come, and the schools were disbanded and abandoned, we felt and hoped that the machinery of psychological warfare would not be allowed to rust.
When we got there, Trig and the Negro were quarreling over possession of a gold crucifix around the neck of a wounded Filipino.
When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.
When something unexpected happened, one always asked for water if one were a woman, brandy if one were a man.
When Papa's slender fingers removed the spectacles, there were red indentations on the bridge of the strong nose.
When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.
When values of temperature derived with this instrument were compared with the accepted values associated with liquid helium-4 vapor pressures, differences of about 10 and 7 millidegrees respectively were found.

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