When Dingane sent an impi ( armed force ) of around twelve thousand Zulu warriors to attack the local contingent of Voortrekkers in response, the Voortrekkers defended themselves at a battle at Nacome River ( called the Battle of Blood River ) on 16 December 1838 where the vastly outnumbered Voortrekker contingent defeated the Zulu warriors.

When the Voortrekkers reached the area of Winburg, there were no other tribes or inhabitants.

When I pressed for a purely religious definition, I encountered the familiar blend of liberal piety, interfaith good will, and a small residue of ethnic loyalty.

When problems with poor control at high speed were first encountered, they were addressed by designing a new style of control surface with more power.

When used in scientific contexts, the term calorie refers to the small calorie ; it is often encountered in experimental calorimetry, and commonly used to specify bond and conformational energies in molecular modeling.

When he encountered opposition from the services, he used government control of military spending to force the change through, stating " Wherever Federal Funds are expended, I do not see now any American can justify a descrimination of those funds.

When first encountered, the figure is a dangerous, ' hairy chthonic wildman ' possessed of kindness and intelligence.

When the Romans encountered the Greek geographers they used Iberia poetically and spoke of the Iberi.

When the " leading " 68000 encountered a bad memory access, extra hardware would interrupt the " main " 68000 to prevent it from also encountering the bad memory access.

When the platypus was first encountered by Europeans in 1798, a pelt and sketch were sent back to Great Britain by Captain John Hunter, the second Governor of New South Wales.

When a tree stump or other obstruction such as a rock is encountered, the ploughshare is thrown upwards, clear of the obstacle, to avoid breaking the plough's harness or linkage ; ploughing can be continued when the weight is returned to the earth after the obstacle is passed.

When Gould was five years old, his father took him to the Hall of Dinosaurs in the American Museum of Natural History, where he first encountered Tyrannosaurus rex.

When such types of tumors are encountered, diagnostic modalities such as ultrasound, CT scans, MRI, angiograms, and nuclear medicine scans are employed prior to ( or during ) biopsy and / or surgical exploration / excision in an attempt to avoid such severe complications.

When filming soft-scripted shows, the subjects are given a scenario by the producers to act out, perhaps an exaggerated version of something likely to be encountered in their real lives, are informed of the outcome, and possible " beats " in between, and instructed to improvise, which Hogan says is a version of what he did as a professional wrestler.

When they reached what is now Angola they encountered the Bushmen and other groups.

When the binary encountered Neptune, it interacted in such a way that orbital energy was transferred from Triton to its companion ; the latter was expelled, while Triton became bound to Neptune.

When White American explorers first entered the region in the first decade of the 19th century, they encountered the eastern tribes of the Shoshone people.

When encountered a trap handler could decode the sNaN and return an index to the computed result.

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

When Wei forces encountered Song young men, the forces quickly beheaded them or cut them in half.

When it is not possible to proceed in an ideal manner, the excavation must be continued in a more arbitrary way, with temporary sections, until discernible stratigraphy is again encountered.

When orcs were present, it glowed blue, as it did when the Fellowship encountered orcs in the mines of Moria.

When the Númenóreans returned to Middle-earth in the Second Age, they encountered many Men who were obviously related to the Atani: they classified these Men as Middle Men, and established friendly relations with them.

When Torn met with Hopper and Fonda at a New York restaurant in early 1968 to discuss the role, Hopper began ranting about the " rednecks " he had encountered on his scouting trip to the South.

When Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker investigated Thrawn's personal fortress, they encountered the Imperial officer who had first brought Thrawn to the Empire-Admiral Voss Parck.

When an exception is thrown, the kernel and base libraries unwind the stack running handlers and filters as they are encountered.

When Sarah is harassed by a vagrant with a snake ( whom she had encountered before in her new house ), he is immediately hit by a car and the girls believe that together they willed it to happen.

When a recipient mailbox of a message is not hosted locally, the message is relayed, that is, forwarded to another MTA.

When a user posts to one news server, the message is stored locally.

When they encounter an infection site the particles gain a positive charge provoked by the slightly acidic environment at the infection sites, allowing them to bind to the negatively charged bacterial cell walls and release antibiotics at locally high concentration.

When the Civil War broke out and Tennessee seceded from the union in 1861, Driver knew or feared that the rebel government would attempt to destroy the locally famous Old Glory.

When the proto-Greeks ( peoples whose language would evolve into Greek proper ) first arrived in the Aegean and on the mainland of modern-day Greece early in the 2nd millennium BCE, they found localized nymphs and divinities already connected with every important feature of the landscape: mountain, cave, grove and spring all had their own locally venerated deity.

When the Interstate Highway system was funded, and sometimes locally as some cities, counties or states improved their own local highway networks, stretches of road containing a lot of turns, frequent stops ( traffic signals ), and-or narrow hard to widen ways and roadbeds, stretches of local roads became bypassed and locally named Old Lincoln Highway.

When granted to Seth Foster in 1659, it naturally became known locally as Foster's Island, and so on.

When locally grouped it is grouped with Salem, Danvers, and Beverly, but also occasionally Topsfield and Boxford, as these three towns are a tri-town.

When applied to a field ( a function defined on a multi-dimensional domain ), del may denote the gradient ( locally steepest slope ) of a scalar field ( or sometimes of a vector field, as in the Navier – Stokes equations ), the divergence of a vector field, or the curl ( rotation ) of a vector field, depending on the way it is applied.

When these are not flat tariffs, the government effectively sets the prices of goods that are not produced locally and are only imported.

When X is a locally convex topological vector space, the continuous dual can be equipped with the strong topology, the topology of uniform convergence on bounded subsets of X.

Pizzey's description of their habits is memorable: " When locally abundant, at end of day, undulating, shearwater-like flocks fly to water, settle short distance away, and walk in.

When it is necessary to distinguish these cases, the latter is called locally conformally flat, although often in the literature no distinction is maintained.

When the choice of the neighbor solution is done by taking the one locally maximizing the criterion, the metaheuristic takes the name hill climbing.

When no improving configurations are present in the neighborhood, local search is stuck at a locally optimal point.

When Bohemia fell to the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria in 1526, the town fell under the overlordship of the Habsburgs in their roles of Kings of Bohemia, although it was still ruled locally by the Silesian Piasts.

When mixed with other ingredients, such as peanuts, condensed milk, coconut, or white sugar, it produces a good number of locally marketed and consumed delicacies.

When getting rid of old printers with local storage, one should keep in mind that confidential print jobs ( documents ) are potentially still locally unencrypted on the hard disk drive and can be undeleted.

When R is Noetherian and M is a finitely-generated R-module, being flat is the same as being locally free in the following sense: M is a flat R-module if and only if for every prime ideal ( or even just for every maximal ideal ) P of R, the localization is free as a module over the localization.

When the underlying measure space is a locally compact topological space, the definition of a Radon measure can be expressed in terms of continuous linear functionals on the space of continuous functions with compact support.

When the A71 peaks at the top of the valley, it goes under the M74 at Jct 8 ( a junction known locally as Canderside Toll ), before turning towards the village of Stonehouse, where a bypass takes traffic to the north of the narrow village roads, before descending into the Avon valley and into Strathaven.

When in February 1964 training moved to McCan Barracks, it became known as the Garda Training Centre, or locally as the depot.

When in January 1941, British Commonwealth forces invaded Ethiopia in January 1941 most of the locally recruited ascaris deserted.