When Kennedy ran for president in 1960, one of his key election issues was an alleged " missile gap ", with the Soviets leading.

When iodine is dissolved in polar solvents which are strong donor solvents such as ketones, ethers, pyridine, the formation of charge-transfer complex leads to modification of the energy gap between the two molecular orbitals, thus different wavelengths were absorbed and iodine has different color in solvents with different polarity.

When the contacts are separated by an insulating air gap, they are said to be " open ", and no current can flow between them at normal voltages.

When a modern ski is tilted on to its edge, a gap is created between the ground and the middle of the ski ( under the binding ) as only the sides near the tip and the tail touch the snow.

When added to baking soda ( sodium bicarbonate ), cyanoacrylate glue forms a hard, lightweight filler / adhesive ( baking soda is first used to fill a gap then the adhesive is dropped onto the baking soda ).

When originally published, the law was approximately satisfied by all the known planets — Mercury through Saturn — with a gap between the fourth and fifth planets.

When a fast moving object is present on two consecutive frames, a gap between the images on the two frames contributes to a noticeable separation of the object and its afterimage in the eye.

When the walls were first erected in 1756, they were made of squared wooden timbers, with earth filling the gap.

When writing, the coil is energized, a strong magnetic field forms in the gap of the C, and the recording surface adjacent to the gap is magnetized.

When it became clear that the gap between two sections of Route 38 would not be filled, the New Jersey Department of Transportation re-designated the eastern portion as Route 138.

When Þorgrim and a few other grudge-bearing men are scouting around Gunnar ’ s house, Gunnar wakes up and stabs Þorgrim through a gap with his axe.

When the gap in seating is narrow, the wave can sometimes pass through it.

When a gap formed in the French line, De Ruyter suddenly tacked with his own centre and sailed through it.

When Washington set up his first administration, and the first Congress began passing laws, both quickly discovered an inconvenient gap in the constitutional design of the government: It had no provision for a regional administrative structure stretching throughout the country.

When Yucaipa incorporated, they included the area outside of the Yucaipa Valley on the " hilltop " or " mesa " that was traditionally known as Calimesa within its city boundaries, so as not to leave a gap of unincorporated area between the two towns.

When New Jersey renumbered its state highways in 1953, the portion of Route S24 between Penwell and County Route 517 in Hackettstown became a part of Route 24 to complete a gap in that route while Route S24 north of there became Route 57.

When the meteoroids pass by Earth, some are accelerated ( making wider orbits around the Sun ), others are decelerated ( making shorter orbits ), resulting in gaps in the dust trail in the next return ( like opening a curtain, with grains piling up at the beginning and end of the gap ).

When Sabena was created, it was partly funded by Belgians in the Belgian Congo colony who lost their air service — an experimental passenger and cargo company ( LARA ) between Léopoldville, Lisala, and Stanleyville — a year earlier and expected the new Belgian national airline to fill this gap.

When questioned about the eight-year gap between solo albums in interviews, Lennon expressed that he did not feel like a solo artist during those years and that he wanted to experience music anonymously without the spotlight on him.

When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

When absinthe fell into disfavor in the early 20th century, ouzo was one of the products whose popularity rose to fill the gap ; it was once called " a substitute for absinthe without the wormwood ".

When the gap is closed it has the effect of lifting the top lip, placing it in a more feminine position and often exposing a little of the upper incisors.

When electrons collide with molecules of air in the gap, they excite their orbital electrons to higher energy levels.

When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.

When they express themselves it is incandescent hatred that shines forth, the rage of repudiation, the ecstasy of negation.

When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.

When the proprietor dies, the establishment should become a corporation until it is either acquired by another proprietor or the government decides to drop it.

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 I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

When someone in the audience rose and asked how does it feel to be a celebrity, Carl said, `` A celebrity is a fellow who eats celery with celerity ''.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

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 we turn to Aristotle's ideas on the moral measure of literature, it is at once apparent that he is at times equally concerned about the influence of the art.

When their faith in civil liberties is tested against strong pressures of social expediency in specific issues, e.g., suppression of `` dangerous ideas '', many waver and give in.

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.

When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

When all else fails, it is argued that open sessions slow down governmental operations.

When a person has thoughtlessly or deliberately caused us pain or hardship it is not always easy to say, `` Just forget it ''.

When a person meets God's requirements for the experience of forgiveness he is forgiven.

When I hold my son he stiffens his whole body in my arms until he is as straight and stiff as a board.

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

When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, and when we realize that concessions to Communists do not insure peace or freedom, then, and only then will we no longer be `` soft ''.

When one powerful nation strives to emulate the success of another, it is only natural.

When a man is laid to rest, he is entitled to stay put.

When I talked to Ching about it, he said, Everyone can learn, if he is not a Reactionary or lazy.