When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

When some local Berber tribesmen learned of Abd al-Rahman's intent to set sail for al-Andalus, they quickly rode to catch up with him on the coast.

When his friends from the local village came to visit him and found him in this condition, they carried him to a church.

When the English captured pre-existing colonies they continued to allow the local settlers to keep their civil law.

When one of these is found, it is necessary to move the search away from it if the experimenter is looking solely for local minima and transition structures.

When sufficient information has been gathered, the investigation of the candidate, who is called " Servant of God ", is presented by the local bishop to the Roman Curia — in particular, the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints — where it is assigned a postulator, whose task is to gather further information about the life of the Servant of God.

When sold in another country, Canadian whisky is typically also required to conform to the local product requirements that apply to whisky in general when sold in that country, which may in some aspects involve stricter standards than the Canadian law.

When deforestation occurs without proper replanting, however ; local wood supplies become difficult to obtain near enough to remain competitive, leading to the city's abandonment, as happened repeatedly in Ancient Asia Minor.

When an application makes a request that requires a domain name lookup, such programs send a resolution request to the DNS resolver in the local operating system, which in turn handles the communications required.

When news came that the local vicar had drowned while trying to save victims of the shipwreck, Squire Cobtree offered the post to Christopher Syn.

When an HTML page is rendered in a browser, the browser downloads the HTML into local memory and parses it, using the DOM to construct the internal data structures employed to display the page in the browser window.

When the French general Junot arrived in Lisbon, the Portuguese fleet had already left with all the local elite.

When El Niño conditions last for many months, extensive ocean warming and the reduction in Easterly Trade winds limits upwelling of cold nutrient-rich deep water and its economic impact to local fishing for an international market can be serious.

When a key is requested, first the node checks the local data store.

When the Domain of Biscay was incorporated into the kingdom of Castile it became customary for the king of Castile to visit Guernica and swear an oath under the Tree promising to uphold the fueros or local laws of Biscay.

When he was still a child, Verdi's parents moved from Piacenza to Busseto, where the future composer's education was greatly facilitated by visits to the large library belonging to the local Jesuit school.

When some of Tiberius's ships were carried to Britain in a storm during his campaigns in Germany in 16 AD, they were sent back by local rulers, telling tall tales of monsters.

When the local Rothschild agent complained about short-weight consignments he left California, pretending it was because of illness.

When Maroger's book became available, Reginald Marsh drew on Maroger's book-jacket an airplane dropping an atomic bomb on the Maryland Art Institute, a reference to the controversy Maroger was causing in the local press over the abstract art versus realism debate.

When the news of Ribbentrop's remarks was leaked to the Polish press despite Colonel Beck's order to the censors on 27 March, it caused anti-German riots in Poland with the local N. S. D. A. P headquarters in the ethnically mixed town of Lininco destroyed by a mob.

When colonial rule was established and efficiency was sought, partly because of settler pressure, newly educated younger men were associated with old chiefs in local Native Councils.

When Kenesaw was eight, the elder Landis moved his family to Delphi, Indiana and subsequently to Logansport, Indiana where the doctor purchased and ran several local farms — his war injury had caused him to scale back his medical practice.

When Larissa ceased minting the federal coins it shared with other Thessalian towns and adopted its own coinage in the late 5th century BC, it chose local types for its coins.

When World War 2 ended, the local economy began to experience revitalization by way of subsidies from Federal Belgrade.

When Vasco da Gama, exploring for Portugal, reached the coast of Mozambique in 1498, Arab trading settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries, and political control of the coast was in the hands of a string of local sultans.

When discipline was restored, in spite of assurances that Spaniards who wished to remain would enjoy freedom of religion and full civil rights, almost all villagers decided not to run the risk of staying and left in exile.

When the storm cleared, local villagers found the outline of a village, consisting of a number of small houses without roofs.

When the samurai arrive, the villagers cower in their homes.

When Tierra Amarilla was designated as the county seat the villagers set about building a courthouse.

A great deal of destruction was done to the tombs over the centuries by quarrying and by their conversion for use as housing, both by monks in the Byzantine period, when some were used as churches, and later by Muslim villagers: " When the Arab village was built ; tombs were destroyed, incorporated in houses or turned into water cisterns and sewage dumps.

When the son also disappeared, the rest of the villagers ventured into the forest seeking the two but discovered only two large lemurs sitting in the trees: the first indri.

When the villagers refused, the enraged soldier fired a single round from his M-79 grenade launcher into the crowd, killing everyone.

When he and some of his villagers returned, they found the Mohoao gone, having reassembled itself and returned to the forest.

When the others follow they are also captured, but Dennis has an idea ( inspired by the film The Bridge on the River Kwai ) of working for the villagers to prevent the guerrillas from moving them on.

When I returned to the village the following morning with an order to send the villagers away, I found out that, while I was away, two of the troops ' officers had killed all of the captives who were in the house with a sub-machine gun, and had then blown up the house on top of them to be their grave.

When James Cook first encountered the villagers at Yuquot in 1778, they directed him to " come around " ( Nuu-chah-nulth nuutkaa is " to circle around ") with his ship to the harbour.

When the villagers tried to return, they were chased off.

When people knew she had but a few hours left, villagers gathered together, accompanied by the priests Chauchetière and Cholenec.

When the other villagers find out about the bet, they are furious with Bhuvan.

When rain came and ended the drought, the grateful villagers gave Wen Shi the name " Mother of Dragons " ( 龍母 ) or " Divine Human " ( 神人 ).

When mowing rye, the villagers let some stalks stand, tie flowers among them, and when finished with their work gather around them and shout three times: “ Fru Gaue, you keep some fodder, this year on the wagon .” In Prignitz, they call her fru Gode and leave a bunch of grain standing in each field which they call “ Fru Gode ’ s portion .” In the district of Hameln, it was custom, if a reaper while binding sheaves passed over one, to jeer and call out: “ Is that for fru Gauen?

When the villagers try to find Mowgli, he suspects that Baloo has brought him back ( he was right ).

When a wolf actually does appear, the villagers do not believe the boy's cries for help, and the flock is destroyed.

When Mowgli scoffs at these fanciful tales the villagers decide to put him to work herding buffalo to keep him out of trouble.

When the Pharaoh comes under threat from Thief King Bakura, Seto has many villagers gathered together so that he may identify those with powerful " Ka " – monsters created within an individual's soul – that may help defend the Pharaoh's rule.

When they arrive back at the village, the entire catch is baked into a " Star-Gazy " pie, on which the villagers feast.

When the rice fields would flood, the villagers would entertain each other using this form of puppet play.

When a village became too large to sustain itself, it was divided and a portion of the villagers would create a settlement at another point along the same river.

When the young man and the other villagers had left, Muso knelt by the corpse and the offerings and began the service.