When the NFL declined to approve the Raiders ' move from Oakland to Los Angeles in 1980, the team joined the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission in a lawsuit against the league alleging a violation of antitrust laws.

When the Raiders moved back from Los Angeles in 1995, the city of Oakland and the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority agreed to sell Personal Seat Licenses ( PSLs ) to help pay for the renovations to their stadium.

When George Lucas first approached Steven Spielberg for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spielberg recalled, " George said if I directed the first one then I would have to direct a trilogy.

When Oakland Raiders co-owner Al Davis took over as AFL Commissioner, he began stepping up the bidding war, immediately signing eight starting NFL quarterbacks, including John Brodie and Roman Gabriel, to contracts with AFL teams.

When the Marine Raiders were dissolved, he was assigned to the 27th Marines, 5th Marine Division.

When he led the Raiders to Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003, he was the second of three players from the University of Delaware to go to the Super Bowl.

When Universal-International picked up the film rights to Audie Murphy's book, he initially declined to play himself, recommending instead Tony Curtis, with whom he had previously worked in three Westerns, Sierra, Kansas Raiders and The Cimarron Kid.

When former Raiders general manager Bruce Allen joined the Bucs in 2004, Gruden finally had the general manager – head coach partnership he desired, and while the salary cap continued to plague the team ( which spent the least money in the league between 2004 and 2009 ) their 2004 and 2005 drafts yielded a few impact players, including 2005 Offensive NFL Rookie of the Year Award winner Carnell " Cadillac " Williams.

When the Raiders began 1-3 in 1989, Shanahan himself was fired and replaced by Shell.

When the Oakland Raiders fired head coach Bill Callahan following the 2003 season, owner Al Davis hired Turner to replace him.

When Regal relocates to Tradeford, Lady Patience unofficially assumes control over Buckeep and garners much respect for her determination for aiding and rebuilding villages targeted by Red Ship Raiders.

When the MILL became the NLL in 1998, the league added its first Canadian franchise: the Ontario Raiders, who played in Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario.

When the Raiders played in Los Angeles from 1982 to 1994, they remained in the AFC West.

When escaping from the other children, Bart, Lisa and Milhouse have to swing across a gap on a vine ; Milhouse goes across first, but refuses to throw the vine back in a reference to the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark ( 1981 ), where the same thing happens to Indiana Jones.

When World War II started Edson was sent as the Commanding officer of the Marine Raiders and earned his second Navy Cross on Tulagi.

When Spielberg came back from Tunisia and Hawaii ( where the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark was filmed ), he eagerly closed the door on Night Skies and began planning the film Mathison had dubbed ET and Me, but would in only a year and half be known to audiences all over the world as E. T.

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.

When, shortly before his son Heracles was born, Zeus proclaimed the next-born descendant of Perseus should get the kingdom, Hera thwarted his ambitions by delaying Alcmene's labour and having her candidate Eurystheus born prematurely.

When she does so, all hopes of ever receiving money are thwarted.

; Sodd's First Law: When a person attempts a task, he or she will be thwarted in that task by the unconscious intervention of some other presence ( animate or inanimate )

When an effort to sway the undecided forces of Parma was thwarted by the Venetians, Charles instead sent a messenger to request free passage to return to France, but the Venetians replied that he would have to restore all his conquests before such could be considered.

When Solomon interrogates Asmodeus further, the king learns that Asmodeus is thwarted by the angel Raphael, as well as by sheatfish found in the rivers of Assyria.

When he seized power in Mogadishu in 1969, Siad Barre thwarted attempts at an understanding between Ethiopia and Somalia.

When The Den crew set out to do the job themselves, Podge kidnapped Kris Kringle and took his place, only to be thankfully thwarted in a scuffle with Ray.

When his plan is thwarted, the toxic waste changes him into a 1950s insurance salesman.

When Sampson changed the system in the second half his team showed promise but was thwarted by an exceptional strike by Juergen Klinsmann.

When his Tory friend Brodie Innes taunted him that God's scheme, before being thwarted by interfering radicals, was that " Man was made a man .. into niggers who must be made to work better men able to make them ", Darwin responded that " I consider myself a good way ahead of you, as far as this goes.

When her plans are thwarted by Dorothy, Glinda and " Pumpkinhead ", she transforms herself into a rose, as in The Marvelous Land of Oz ; however, in this adaptation, the rose is trampled by one of the elephants, and Mombi is killed.

When the Thunderbolts uncovered and thwarted a CSA-connected conspiracy to exterminate all superhumans, Hawkeye blackmailed the CSA into giving the Thunderbolts full pardons in exchange for the group's silence ; however, CSA agent Henry Peter Gyrich insisted that he would not go along with the deal unless Hawkeye went to prison for his technically illegal vigilante activities as a member of the Thunderbolts.

When his rebellion is thwarted, he sends them home.

When the invasion was thwarted by the Aquitian Rangers, Vile threw a tantrum and fled back to his home galaxy, where he claimed " the bad guy always wins ".

When one of the soldiers is prevented, by his commanding officer, from taking a gilded sword that once belonged to Scarlett's long-dead father-in-law and intended for her little boy Wade Hamilton ( the officer is himself a veteran of the same campaigns as the sword's former owner ), the thwarted Yankee soldier expresses his indignation by secretly setting a wing of the house on fire as the Yankees are leaving.

When she is thwarted, she goes into hysterics until Deanna comforts her.

When an attempt to escape for help is thwarted, he is tortured and killed.