When the votes were counted, the party doubled its federal vote from 1. 9 million ( PDS result in 2002 ) to more than 4 million — including an electoral breakthrough in industrial Saarland where, for the first time in a western state, it surpassed the Greens and FDP due, in large part to Lafontaine's popularity and Saarland roots.

When the law was being passed, it was speculated it would be overturned again as soon as an administration without the Greens was in power.

When neither Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrats and Greens nor a coalition of Christian and Free Democrats, favored by Angela Merkel and Westerwelle, managed to gain a majority of seats, Westerwelle rejected overtures by Chancellor Schröder to save his chancellorship by entering his coalition, preferring to become one of the leaders of the disparate opposition of the subsequently formed " Grand Coalition " of Christian and Social Democrats, with Merkel as Chancellor.

When the Greens took their seats in parliament for the first time, they chose to appear somewhat unconventional.

When Bob Brown stood down in 1993 to contest the federal election, she became leader of the Greens in the Tasmanian Parliament and the first female leader of a political party in Tasmania.

When the law was being passed, it was speculated it would be overturned again as soon as an administration without the Greens was in power.

When they are able to hold a live spider without feeling anxious, they will have conquered their phobia.

When the Romans finally conquered Pannonia in 8 AD, the Boii seem not to have opposed them.

When Arioch and his fellow Chaos Lords conquered the Fifteen Planes, the balance between the forces of Law and Chaos tipped in favor of Chaos, and their minions-such as Glandyth-a-Krae-embarked on a bloody rampage.

When the British army conquered Eritrea from the Italians in spring 1941, most of the infrastructures and the industrial areas were extremely damaged.

" When Magyars came to Pannonia in the 8th century, the Szeklers joined them, and together they conquered Pannonia ( today Hungary ).

When the Arabs conquered the region much later, their name for the river became Guadalete ( River Lethe, in Arabic ).

When Portugal conquered Malacca in 1511 and committed atrocities against the Malay Sultanate, the Chinese responded with violent force against Portugal.

When King Gustav Vasa finally besieged and conquered the city three years later, an event which ended the Kalmar Union and the Swedish Middle Ages, he noted every second building in the city was abandoned.

When the Normans conquered England, they brought the term with them.

When established in 1936, Italian East Africa covered the former Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland and the recently conquered Ethiopia.

When the dynasty was established, the conquered land was divided into hereditary fiefs that eventually became powerful in their own right.

When Sardinia was finally conquered by the Catalan-Aragonese army, Cagliari ( Castel de Càller or simply Càller in Catalan ) became the administrative capital of the newborn Kingdom of Sardinia, one of the many kingdoms forming the Crown of Aragon, which later came under the rule of the Spanish Empire.

When Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon in 539 BCE, Cambyses was employed in leading religious ceremonies.

When Charlemagne conquered most of the Lombard kingdoms, some Umbrian territories were given to the Pope, who established temporal power over them.

When William of Normandy conquered England, he divided the nation into many " manors ", the owners of which came to be known as barons ; those who held many manors were known as " greater barons ", while those with fewer manors were the " lesser barons ".

When the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453, the Patriarchate ceased to function.

When King David conquered Edom, which up to then had been a common border of Edom and Midian, he took over Eilat, the border city shared by them as well.

When he conquered Lotf Ali Khan, the last king of the Zand Dynasty, Qajar had Khan castrated in revenge.

When Richelieu invaded Piedmont and conquered Susa, the duke changed sides again and returned to an alliance with France.

When the Emperor Hadrian threatened to rebuild Jerusalem as a pagan city dedicated to Jupiter, in 132, Aelia Capitolina, some of the leading sages of the Sanhedrin supported a rebellion led by Simon Bar Kosiba ( later known as Bar Kokhba ), who established a short-lived independent state that was conquered by the Romans in 135.

When Charles VIII of France invaded Savoy, Piedmont, and Italy in 1494 and conquered Naples, the House of Savoy retreated and established its residence in Turin, where it remained until the unification of Italy.

When Frederick Barbarossa went on the Crusade of 1189, Henry returned to Saxony, mobilized an army of his faithful, and conquered and ravaged the rich city of Bardowick as punishment for her disloyalty.

When Octavian conquered Egypt, he spared Alexander, but took him, his sister and his brother Ptolemy Philadelphus from Egypt to Rome.

When France colonised America, the territory it conquered was immense, including the whole Mississippi River ( whose first European name was the River Colbert ), from its mouth to its source at the borders of Canada.

When the Ostrogoths conquered Rimini in 493, Odoacer, besieged in Ravenna, had to capitulate.

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 towns have the same fiscal year it is relatively easy to make meaningful comparisons ; ;

When the Arab armies appeared in Khorāsān in the 650s AD, Herāt was counted among the twelve capital towns of the Sasanian Empire.

When it reaches the towns of Saugatuck and Douglas it stops and enters Lake Michigan.

When Larissa ceased minting the federal coins it shared with other Thessalian towns and adopted its own coinage in the late 5th century BC, it chose local types for its coins.

When many Norman towns ( Alençon, Rouen, Caen, Coutances, Bayeux ) joined the Protestant Reformation, battles ensued throughout the province.

When Gladstone first joined Palmerston's government in 1859, he opposed further electoral reform, but he changed his position during Palmerston's last premiership, and by 1865 he was firmly in favour of enfranchising the working classes in towns.

When the Macedonian army approaches Thracian Chersonese ( the Gallipoli Peninsula ), an Athenian general named Diopeithes ravages this district of Thrace, thus inciting Philip's rage for operating too near one of his towns in the Chersonese.

When the resources that had created an employment boom in these towns were consumed, the businesses ceased to exist, and the people moved to more productive areas.

When buccaneers raided towns, they did not sail into port and bombard the defenses, as naval forces typically did.

When that lucrative trade diminished, most of the towns fell back on fishing and some industry until the 20th century when tourism became the major source of income.

When first encountered by the Spanish in the 16th century, they were living in villages that the Spanish called pueblos, meaning " towns ".

When she heard that the small Pennsylvania towns of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk were desperately seeking to attract business, she made a deal with officials which, according to Thorpe's son Jack, was done by Patricia for monetary considerations.

When Erie County was established in 1821, it consisted of the towns of Amherst, Aurora, Boston, Clarence, Collins, Concord, Eden, Evans, Hamburg, Holland, Sardinia, and Wales.

When droving along the stock route led to many family groups dispersing to the edges of the desert, communities were established in missions, towns, stations and settlements, and it was here that contemporary painting movements flourished.

When O ' Toole was one year old, his family began a five-year tour of major racecourse towns in Northern England.

When afterwards the Trojan refugees led by Aeneas also arrived there, Elymus built for them the towns of Segesta and Elyme, and the Trojans who settled in that part of Sicily called themselves Elymi, after Elymus.

When Vermont was admitted into the Union in 1791, in the major towns there were totally 9, 267 people.

When the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad Company introduced rail lines in the area in the 1850s, many new towns and communities sprang up.

When railroads were constructed starting in the 1850s, they in turn began to render the canals obsolete and allowed trade to reach towns that lacked water connections.

When this line was bought by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad the following decade, the L & N built train depots at Woodstock and other towns.

" When the day ’ s work was completed, the railroad construction crew, mostly all immigrants from neighboring towns, cooked their supper over an open fire and returned to their homes when the last " skillet was licked.

When Yucaipa incorporated, they included the area outside of the Yucaipa Valley on the " hilltop " or " mesa " that was traditionally known as Calimesa within its city boundaries, so as not to leave a gap of unincorporated area between the two towns.

When Henry Flagler brought his railroad down to Lemon City ( a year or so before he extended it to Miami in 1896 ), he placed depots at numerous spots along the route, and small towns quickly developed around those stops.

When the Tuttle Creek Lake began filling up in 1962, it affected ten towns and entirely submerged four of them ( from north to south ): Cleburne at, Randolph, Garrison Cross and Stockdale.