When this fails, he contacts smugglers, who agree to help him to escape for a fee of ten thousand francs.

When striking a keyboard key, the key oscillates against its contacts several times before settling.

When Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said assumed power in 1970, Oman had limited contacts with the outside world, including neighbouring Arab states.

When an individual, or entity, has no " minimum contacts " with a forum State, the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits that State from acting against that individual, or entity.

When the water-jet contacts the bucket, the water exerts pressure on the bucket and the water is decelerated as it does a " u-turn " and flows out the other side of the bucket at low velocity.

When the water level is below both switches, the switch contacts are closed providing signals to both the " Low Level " and " High Level " inputs to the PLC.

When the circuit is broken, the current cannot change instantaneously, which creates a potentially damaging spark across the separating contacts.

When it exceeds the design temperature it opens the contacts, cooling until the temperature drops enough to restore magnetisation.

When the situation turns into a war between Japan and America, they establish contacts with the opposition in the Japanese government and are also used to eliminate a pair of Japanese AWACS planes.

When the ball contacts the floor within the court boundaries or an error is made, the team that did not make the error is awarded a point, whether they served the ball or not.

When the top and bottom contacts were connected by a wire, an electric current flowed through the voltaic pile and the connecting wire.

When the wedge was pushed down onto the surface of a crystal and voltage applied to the other side ( on the base of the crystal ), current started to flow from one contact to the other as the base voltage pushed the electrons away from the base towards the other side near the contacts.

When a low stratiform cloud contacts the ground, it is called fog, although radiation and advection types of fog do not form from stratus layers.

When O ' Shaughnessy contacts Spade, he senses a connection between her and Cairo, and casually mentions that he has spoken to Cairo.

When the normally open contacts of both switches close, electricity is able to flow to the motor which opens the door.

When the lens first contacts the eye, it should be comfortable.

When a crystal of ice-nine contacts liquid water, it becomes a seed crystal that makes the molecules of liquid water arrange themselves into the solid form, ice-nine.

When Zamora was in New York for an ultimately canceled interview with CBS's This Morning, his contacts at MTV convinced him to see a doctor, but when he arrived at the MTV offices, he did not know where he was.

When Steve Wozniak developed the first disk drives for the Apple II, Raskin went back to his contacts at UCSD and encouraged them to port the UCSD P-System operating system ( incorporating a version of the Pascal programming language ) to it, which Apple later licensed and shipped as Apple Pascal.

When the ignition switch is turned on ( i. e. when the key is turned to start the car ), the small electric current forces the starter solenoid to close a pair of heavy contacts, thus relaying the large electric current to the starter motor.

When the user pressed a key on the typewriter keyboard, a small amount of current from a battery flowed through the key into one of the contacts on the input side of the disk, through the wiring, and back out a different contact.

When contacts between Europeans and the Lacandon began being recorded it was believed that they were unchanged ancient Maya descended from those who fled initial Spanish contact and that they were complete with the ritual beliefs and physical appearance of their ancestors.

When he contacts Random, Random reveals that Eric has contacted him and revealed the full extent of his defenses, which are vast and powerful.

When electrical contacts open to interrupt a large current, there is a tendency for an arc to form between the opened contacts, which would allow the current to continue.

When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.

When the Know-nothings get control, it will read, All men are created equal except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.

When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.

When combined with the metaphysical notion that pure forms of this universe are best appreciated when least embodied in a material substratum, it becomes clear that while earth will be dross on a scale of material-formal ratios, celestial bodies will be of a subtle, quickened, ethereal existence, in whose embodiment pure form will be the dominant component and matter will be absent or remain subsidiary.

She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.

When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.

When these fields are surveyed together, important patterns of relationship emerge indicating a vast community of reciprocal influence, a continuity of thought and expression including many traditions, primarily literary, religious, and philosophical, but frequently including contact with the fine arts and even, to some extent, with science.

When different colors are used, she is just as likely to color trees purple, hair green, etc..

When finally the two bedraggled men reach their friend's home, Voltaire's fears are once again aroused.

`` When are you to leave ''??

When the roof blocks are all in place, the final rows of wall blocks are mortared into position.

When the aid operations are reorganized the Peace Corps should remain a semi-autonomous, functional unit.

When the budget goes to trustees for approval it is the president's budget, to which his faith and credit are committed ; ;

When they have 4 to 6 leaves and are thrifty little plants, it's time to set them out where they are to remain.

When aircraft are no longer helpless on airfields, they are no longer vulnerable to Aj.

When more than two figures are separated by subtraction symbols the subtraction must be carried out from the left to right if the result is to be correct.

When they're on, the top edges are planed even with the sheer batten.

When painting, Mason's physical eyes are half-closed, while his mind's eye is wide open, and this circumstance accounts in part for the impression he wishes to convey.

When improvements are recommended in working conditions -- such as lighting, rest rooms, eating facilities, air-conditioning -- do you try to set a measure of their effectiveness on productivity??

When sufficiently accurate and complete measurements are available, it will be possible to set limits on the thermal and electrical characteristics of the surface and subsurface materials of the moon.

When some thirteen records of newly and recently born individuals are collated, little or no correlation between length and distribution can be detected.

When three dice are tossed repeatedly, what is the probability that the number of aces is 0 ( or 1, or 2, or 3 )??