When you stand before the barrel-vaulted colonnade you have the impression that the statue at the end is at a considerable distance, yet it is actually only a few feet away.

When telegraph messages were the state of the art in rapid long distance communication, elaborate systems of commercial codes that encoded complete phrases into single words ( commonly five-letter groups ) were developed, so that telegraphers became conversant with such " words " as BYOXO (" Are you trying to weasel out of our deal?

When the “ same picture ” is taken in two different format sizes from the same distance at the same f-number with lenses that give the same angle of view, and the final images ( e. g., in prints, or on a projection screen or electronic display ) are the same size,

When focus is set to the hyperfocal distance, the DOF extends from half the hyperfocal distance to infinity, and the DOF is the largest possible for a given f-number.

When the photon is emitted at a distance equal to the Schwarzschild radius, the redshift will be infinitely large.

When the photon is emitted at an infinitely large distance, there is no redshift.

When the Æsir exclaimed that they were ready, Fenrir shook himself, knocked the fetter to ground, strained hard, and kicking with his feet, snapped the fetter – breaking it into pieces that flew far into the distance.

When seen from a distance, juveniles can be confused with other cetacean species, such as the false killer whale or Risso's dolphin.

When observed from farther away, the image of the rows of pixels still merge, but the total image becomes smaller as the distance increases.

When a circle's radius is 1, its perimeter is 2π, which is also the distance it rolls in one revolution.

When Pluto was discovered 19 years later, its mean distance of 39. 48 AU and orbital period of 248 Earth years were close to Ketakar's prediction ( Pluto in fact has a 2: 3 resonance with Neptune ).

When switching from 700 stadia per degree to 500, he ( or Marinos ) expanded longitude differences between cities accordingly ( a point first realized by P. Gosselin in 1790 ), resulting in serious over-stretching of the Earth's east-west scale in degrees, though not distance.

When manuals were redrafted in the mid-century, in particular after the 1848 Revolution to formulate a national curriculum, care was taken to distance their approach to rhetoric from that of the Church, which was seen as an agent of conservatism and reactionary politics.

When using a pulsed radar, the variation between the phase of successive returns gives the distance the target has moved between pulses, and thus its speed can be calculated.

When the group's ship suffers a warp core breach and is going to explode, he offers to beam them aboard his ship so they can survive, but they refuse and tell him to move off to a safe distance which he does.

When calling long distance, the calling party would give the name and city of the person desired, and the operator would advise the calling party to hang up and wait for the call to be completed.

When a distance in kilometers ( km ) is divided by a time in hours ( h ), the result is in kilometers per hour ( km / h ).

When proper units are used for tangential speed v, rotational speed ω, and radial distance r, the direct proportion of v to both r and ω becomes the exact equation:

When calculated in this way for the case where ∆ r is a distance along the axis joining the centers of m and M, is directed outwards from to the center of m ( where ∆ r is zero ).

When the cities are viewed as points in the plane, many natural distance functions are metrics, and so many natural instances of TSP satisfy this constraint.

When the player stands within a small distance from most surfaces, the detail texture will fade in and make the surface appear much more complex ( high-resolution ) instead of becoming increasingly blurry.

When a unit comes up, the commander specifies an order and if offensive action is being taken, a target, along with details about distance.

When he arrives, he will call " Butterfly " from a distance, but she will not answer, partly for fun and partly not to die from the excitement of the first meeting.

When a beam is measured with a laser beam profiler, the wings of the beam profile influence the D4σ value more than the center of the profile since the wings are weighted by the square of its distance, x < sup > 2 </ sup >, from the center of the beam.

When several minutes had passed and Curt hadn't emerged from the livery stable, Brenner reentered the hotel and faced Summers across the counter.

When they had licked the last of the wieners' taste from their fingers, they settled back, and Cappy offered Ernie a cigarette.

When, in 1832, the South Carolina nullifiers adopted the principle of state interposition which Madison had advanced in his old Virginia Resolve, they elicited no encouragement from that senior statesman.

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 Thompson and her daughter began a correspondence which included fervent verses from Pantasaph, Mrs. King felt a proper Victorian alarm.

When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.

When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

Sir -- When the colonies decided upon freedom from England, we insisted, through the Declaration of Independence, that the nations of the world recognize us as a separate political entity.

When East Germans fled to the West by the thousands, paeans of joy rose from the throats of Western publicists.

When the parents emerged from the bedroom a few minutes later, the maid greeted them quietly.

When Kate hurried in alarm to tell him to put it out, she saw other dots of flames among the western Virginia hills from the few scattered fires of the faithful.

When the fate of the individual is visited on the group, then ( the warm sweet butter dripped from her raised trembling fork and she pushed her head forward belligerently ), ah, then the true bitterness of existence could be tasted.

Speaking from long years of experience, Mrs. Long advised the Juniors: `` When showing dogs ceases to be fun and excitement, stop!!

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 changing from one color to another, whether working on right or wrong side, pick up the new strand from underneath dropped strand.

`` When working from one of my sketches I square it up and project its linear form freehand to the watercolor sheet with charcoal.

When did you last compare your present premium costs with the costs of insurance from other sources??

When the larvae hatch, they feed on the beebread, although they also receive extra honey meals from their mother.

When necessary, we should make it clear that countries which choose to derive marginal advantages from the cold war or to exploit their potential for disrupting the security of the world will not only lose our sympathy but also risk their own prospects for orderly development.

When an occurrence Af is isolated during text reading, a random memory address Af, the address of a cell in the X-region, is computed from the form of Af.

When this situation exists, the address Af will equal Af which was produced from Af.

When entries are being retrieved from this file, the table of dictionary usage indicates which entries to skip and which entries to store in the computer.

When the snobbery that alienates Pip from Joe finally gives way before the deeper and stronger force of love, the reunion is marked by an embarrassed handshake at which Pip exclaims: `` No, don't wipe it off -- for God's sake, give me your blackened hand ''!!