When they were refused entrance to his brother's house nearby, they smashed down the door, broke the window, and threw lighted clothes wet with kerosene into the room.

" When the final payment on the farm was owed, Sam May refused to cover his brother-in-law's debts, as he often did, possibly at Abby May's suggestion.

When Democratic-Republicans in some states refused to enforce federal laws, and even threatened to rebel, Federalists threatened to send the army to force them to capitulate.

When management refused to support the concept, Ahl left DEC in 1974 to found the seminal computer magazine, Creative Computing.

When Bonds hit his 755th home run, Selig refused to applaud Bonds ' accomplishment, instead choosing to keep his hands in his pockets and have a look of disdain on his face.

When the Soviet Union was the only member state which refused to sign, the U. S. embarked on a massive nuclear weapons testing, development, and deployment program.

When they heard of the Praetorians ' claim, they demanded that Claudius be delivered to them for approval, but he refused, sensing the danger that would come with complying.

When bankers in Enid refused to lend him more money to build his planes, he moved to Wichita.

When Gail refused to go along with the plan, Joe sailed away and in the attempt, drowned for real, leaving Gail to be charged with his murder.

When the Communists captured the Nationalist capital of Nanjing in April 1949, Li refused to accompany the central government as it fled to Guangdong, instead expressing his dissatisfaction with Chiang by retiring to Guangxi.

When Pope Clement VII refused to annul the marriage, Henry defied him by assuming supremacy over religious matters.

When Dien Bien Phu fell in May 1954, Ike refused to intervene despite urgings from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Vice President and the head of NCS.

When the authors refused to comply, he ordered it to be destroyed and instead had prepared an alternative report, which proved highly critical of Jellicoe.

When Auckland refused to put the agreement in writing, Dost Mohammad turned his back on the British and began negotiations with Vitkevich.

When Napoleon I ordered the invasion of Portugal in 1807 because it refused to join the Continental System, the Portuguese Braganças moved their capital to Rio de Janeiro to avoid the fate of the Spanish Bourbons ( Napoleon I arrested them and made his brother Joseph king ).

When Augeias learned of Heracles ' bargain for the task, he refused payment.

When Charles finally did propose marriage to Amanda later in 1979, the circumstances were tragically changed, and she refused him.

When he refused, Tammany went to the New York Supreme Court and successfully sued to keep Kelly ’ s name off the ballot.

When they refused, Galen performed the surgery himself and in so doing won the favor of the High Priest of Asia.

When they refused most of the fellows were ejected and replaced by Catholics.

When Nayler refused to kiss Fox's hand, Fox told Nayler to kiss his foot instead.

When the newly elected National Assembly refused to pass this document and drafted one of their own preserving this prohibition, it was forcibly dissolved by Gendarmerie commandant Smedley Butler.

When Röhm refused to kill himself, he was shot dead by two SS officers.

When they refused to hand the arms to the government, Ben-Gurion ordered that the ship be sunk.

When the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden to US authorities and to disband al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in which teams of American and British special forces worked with commanders of the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban.

When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, and when we realize that concessions to Communists do not insure peace or freedom, then, and only then will we no longer be `` soft ''.

When this proposal was made, Stalin spoke with stronger emotion than at any other time during the Conference.

When the patient was not allowed to move his body in any way at all, the following striking results occurred.

When the system is arranged for automatic leveling, the platform angles respond to any horizontal components of acceleration acting on the accelerometers.

When Giffen decided to charge him interest on the loan from John Palfrey, Gorham readily assented, vowing that in a matter of dollars and cents, his brothers would never have any cause to complain of him.

When I interviewed Kirby, who as a boy picked up pears in the Borden yard, I asked if anybody else in the household besides Lizzie and Morse had been under any suspicion at the time of the murders.

When Continental Airlines night-coach Flight 54 took off at 11:30 one night last week, there was no reason to think it would take any longer.

When they say that under no circumstances would it ever be right to `` permit '' the termination of the human race by human action, because there could not possibly be any proportionate grave reason to justify such a thing, they know exactly what they mean.

When the third car ’ s engine has been mounted, it then can be moved to the hood station ; meanwhile, subsequent cars ( if any ) can be moved to the engine installation station.

When originally used in Olney, it is unknown what music, if any, accompanied the verses written by John Newton.

Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.

When one turns from the dombocs introduction to the laws themselves, it is difficult to uncover any logical arrangement.

When the date and other obvious clues were removed no significant results were found to suggest there was any preferred chart.

When analog television was developed, no affordable technology for storing any video signals existed ; the luminance signal has to be generated and transmitted at the same time at which it is displayed on the CRT.

When the others go in to dinner Nora stays behind for a few minutes and contemplates suicide to save her husband from the shame of the revelation of her crime and ( more importantly ) to pre-empt any gallant gesture on his part to save her reputation.

When used by academics, an arbitrage is a transaction that involves no negative cash flow at any probabilistic or temporal state and a positive cash flow in at least one state ; in simple terms, it is the possibility of a risk-free profit at zero cost.

When the signal drive to the amplifier is increased, the output also increases until a point is reached where some part of the amplifier becomes saturated and cannot produce any more output ; this is called clipping, and results in distortion.

When a pitching change occurs, the new pitcher is said to " inherit " any runners that are on base at the time, and if they later score, those runs are charged ( earned or unearned ) to the prior pitcher.

When the outcome of the dealer's hand is established, any hands with bets remaining on the table are resolved ( usually in counter-clockwise order ): bets on losing hands are forfeited, the bet on a push is left on the table, and winners are paid out.

When removing checkers from the board (" bearing off "), the exact roll must be used unless a die is greater than any checker can use to bear off ; in that case the die is played by taking a checker from the highest-numbered point off the board.

When a man distinguished himself by deeds of valour, or any form of meritorious conduct, he was often decorated by a chief by being presented with the feathers of this bird.

When an object falls into a black hole, any information about the shape of the object or distribution of charge on it is evenly distributed along the horizon of the black hole, and is lost to outside observers.

When a symbol is not marked by any of the three grammar symbols ( square, cone, inverted cone ), they may be a non material thing, a grammatical particle, etc.