" About Nelson Mandela he said, " When Mandela goes it will be a moment when all South Africans put away their political differences, will take hands, and will together honour maybe the biggest South African that has ever lived.

When the academy was founded, the ballroom was the biggest room in Stockholm that could be heated and thus used in the winter, so the king asked if he could borrow it.

When Edison was a very old man and close to death, he said, in looking back, that the biggest mistake he had made was in not respecting Tesla or his work.

When the film opened in June 1989, it was backed by the biggest marketing and merchandising campaign in film history at the time, and became one of the biggest box office hits of all time, grossing well over US $ 250 million in the US alone and $ 400 million worldwide ( numbers not adjusted for inflation ) and earning critical acclaim for the performances of both Keaton and Nicholson, as well as the film's production aspects, which won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

When the single was released in late 2002, it became Williams ' biggest international hit, going number one in countries like The Netherlands and Italy, as well as reaching the top ten in almost every single European country.

When the single " Flood " began to climb the charts on mainstream radio stations, Silvertone Records ( Essential's parent company ) started to heavily promote the song, turning it into one of the biggest mainstream hits ever by a band on a Christian label.

" When he died in 1934 at the age of 65, he was accorded the biggest funeral in the history of Montgomery County.

When the Tigers began the 1968 season in first place, winning nine consecutive games after losing the season opening game, McLain made controversial statements in early May by criticizing Detroit fans for being, " the biggest front-running fans in the world.

When General Motors closed its operations in Anderson, the city was dealt a major economic blow as GM was the biggest employer in Anderson.

When Hildesheim obtained city rights in 1249, it was one of the biggest cities in Northern Germany.

When it was inaugurated in July 1937, the Nielson Airport was being touted as the biggest and best-equipped in Asia.

Dion and The Belmonts recorded and charted a few more songs, including their biggest hit, " Where or When ", which climbed to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1960.

His 1968 single, " How You Gonna Get Respect ( When You Haven't Cut Your Process Yet )", was his biggest post-Midnighters hit, peaking at number 15 on the R & B chart.

When disc jockeys across the nation began to play the track from the album in the fall of 1967 and demanded its release as a single, Florence Greenberg, President of Scepter Records, complied and " I Say a Little Prayer " became Warwick's biggest US hit to that point, reaching # 4 on the U. S. and Canadian Charts and # 8 on the R & B Charts.

When he retired in December 2004, the AP News Service quoted Moyers as saying, " I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee.

When reached for comment Bell stated, " Look, Brett sang all of this stuff on the bands biggest records, so it's pretty clear that the fans want to hear him singing Fuel songs, and that is what they are going to get.

The compilation included a new track, the power ballad " When Love & Hate Collide ", which became their biggest ever hit in the UK, hitting No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart.

Following an exclusive swing concert at the Berlin Tränenpalast in October, No Angels soon followed with a DVD and a live album, entitled When the Angels Swing, featuring their biggest hits and selected songs from their first two albums, re-arranged by Grammy Award-nominated jazz musician Till Brönner.

When a print workbook version fell through, McCall's company decided to produce their own animated versions of the songs, which they then sold to ABC ( which was already the advertising company's biggest account ) based on a demo animation of the original " Three Is A Magic Number " for its Saturday morning lineup.

When the indictment was read out, Yucef Franco shouted out that it was the biggest falsehood in the world.

When his Dublin townhouse, Kildare House ( renamed Leinster House when he was made Duke of Leinster ) was finished, it was by far the biggest aristocratic residence other than Dublin Castle, and it was greeted with envy.

When the largest crab moves into the new shell, the second biggest crab moves into the newly vacated shell, thereby making its previous shell available to the third crab, and so on.

The biggest blow, however, is yet to come: When she accompanies Oliver to New York for a première, she finds out to her dismay that he has been betraying her with a famous actress who stars in one of his plays.

The Tubes had their biggest radio hit with the single " She's a Beauty " ( flipside of single was non-album track " When You're Ready to Come ").

When a cowhand said that a man had `` good cow sense '', he meant to pay 'im a high compliment.

When compared to Yes, Genesis and ELP, they would take it as a compliment.

When he was at Göttingen, in the beginning of his German tour, he received the compliment of being appointed honorary professor of philosophy and geology in that university ; but he never entered upon the active duties of a professorship.

When Gorky showed his new work to André Breton in the 1940s, after seeing the new paintings and in particular The Liver is the Cock's Comb, Breton declared the painting to be " one of the most important paintings made in America " and he stated that Gorky was a Surrealist, which was Breton's highest compliment.

" When the beau perceives that he is stacking his compliments a trifle too high, and sees by the young lady's countenance that the edifice would have been better with the top compliment left off, he puts his " I beg pardon — no harm intended ," into the briefer form of " Oh, that's for lagniappe.

When the Rough Riders returned to the U. S., they presented their courageous leader Roosevelt with Remington ’ s bronze statuette, The Broncho Buster, which the artist proclaimed, “ the greatest compliment I ever had … After this everything will be mere fuss .” Roosevelt responded, “ There could have been no more appropriate gift from such a regiment .”

He gave Hugh MacDiarmid a roof over his head in London in 1934 ( MacDiarmid returned the compliment in When the Rat-Race Is Over ; an essay in honour of the fiftieth birthday of John Gawsworth ( 1962 )).

When Top Gear was relaunched, Willson said of Clarkson that " It's a compliment that the BBC are so afraid of losing ratings to us they've lured my old co-host out of semi-retirement.

When Mark Lawrenson and Jim Beglin named McManaman in their team of the 1990s, they said that most managers in the league used the same tactic of marking McManaman to stop Liverpool and whilst it was a tremendous compliment to McManaman, the opposition could stop Liverpool because the tactical system of 3-5-2 or 3-4-1-2 was too dependent on McManaman and would fail if McManaman was off form, or if the team was not complemented by a quality defence ( players who could play both wingback and centre half to cope with onslaughts ), or the presence of a steely defensive midfielder, which was what happened with the team of that time.

When Richards would reunite with Mick Jagger ( who was recording Wandering Spirit while Richards was making Main Offender ) in mid-1993 to start work on Voodoo Lounge, Jagger would compliment Richards on Main Offender, even using lead single " Wicked as It Seems " as inspiration for The Rolling Stones ' next single, " Love Is Strong ".

When Tanacharison bestowed the name on George Washington, it may have been as part of Washington's ceremonial adoption as a Seneca, intended to compliment the young Virginian's military ardor.

When, in December 2003, the four reformers garnered enough swing votes to defeat Stroger's FY 2004 budget ( the first time such a thing had happened to a Cook County Board President in three decades ), Stroger gave Claypool a backhanded compliment, saying, " The media has prevailed, along with Mr. Claypool.

He enjoyed making these calls, saying, " When you're dressed as the Devil, your conversation is immediately loaded, so if you tell somebody you really like what they're doing, you know it's not a compliment.

When he tells her she is unlike what he expected, she smiles and says that no one has ever paid her a greater compliment.

When she wakes up, she runs after him to compliment the massage, only to realize that Virgil is blind.

When informed that the other regiments had replied that they were " too fatigued " but that the decimated 69th replied that it would still " consider an order to advance as a compliment ", he exclaimed " By God, it takes the Irish when you want a hard thing done!

When trust busting President Theodore Roosevelt said that Gary was head of the steel trust, Gary considered it a compliment.