When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

When Peter had reached his majority at eighteen??

When we arrive at the events concerned in the vanished majority, they, of course, cannot impress us as anything familiar.

When the House reconvened, the party schism caused by the Free Soil Party precluded the formation of a majority needed to elect a Speaker.

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.

When he came of age in 1902, the week of his majority was marked by festivities, bullfights, balls and receptions throughout Spain.

When the trade association began, it had seven members and its main goal was to eliminate all duties and restrictions on the majority of their trade within 12 years.

" When Li ' l Abner made its debut in 1934, the vast majority of comic strips were designed chiefly to amuse or thrill their readers.

When the United States renounced its offensive biological warfare program in 1969 and 1970, the vast majority of its biological arsenal was composed of these plant diseases.

When the word kusari is used in conjunction with an armoured item it usually means that the kusari makes up the majority of the armour defence.

When made by Congress, a majority of both houses makes it binding much like regular legislation.

When the French public were asked to select which film they wanted to see most, having been told by the Vichy government that soon no more American films would be allowed in France, the overwhelming majority chose it over all others.

When the Court renders its decision, it will generally do so in a single majority opinion and one or more dissenting opinions.

When Constantine converted to Christianity the majority of his subjects were still pagans and the Roman Imperial cult of the divinity of the emperor, expressed through the traditional burning of candles and the offering of incense to the emperor ’ s image, was tolerated for a period because it would have been politically dangerous to attempt to suppress it.

When Election Day arrived, Andrew Jackson won, although narrowly, pluralities of the popular and electoral votes, but not the necessary majority of electoral votes.

When it became clear after another six ballots that Van Buren would not win the required majority, Polk emerged as a " dark horse " candidate.

When the elections following the introduction of provincial autonomy ( under the government of India act 1935 ) brought the Congress party to power in a majority of the provinces, Nehru's popularity and power was unmatched.

When, in 1967, after his death at the age of 91, Germans were asked what they admired most about Adenauer, the majority responded that he had brought home the last German prisoners of war from the USSR, which had become known as the " Return of the 10, 000 ".

When a legislator needs a few more votes to acquire a simple majority, he will seek support through a vote exchange.

When people have ideologies at opposite ends of the political spectrum, it ’ s difficult to ensure a simple majority, so buying a supermajority vote through logrolling may be the most cost effective ( Buchanan and Tullock 1962 ).

When the vote was taken, enough of the majority refrained from voting to produce a tie and give Calhoun his longed-for " vengeance.

When war came in 1941, the vast majority of Methodists strongly supported the national war effort, but there were also a few ( 673 ) conscientious objectors.

When PNG development started in early 1995, developers decided not to incorporate support for animation, because the majority of the PNG developers felt that overloading a single file type with both still and animation features is a bad design, both for users ( who have no simple way of determining to which class a given image file belongs ) and for web servers ( which should use the image / foo MIME type for stills and video / foo for animations -- GIF notwithstanding ).

When a party achieves enough seats in an election to form a majority, the party's frontbench becomes the Cabinet of government ministers.

* When the majority of the Assembly has opposite political views to that of the president, this leads to political cohabitation.

When Grant came to London he was not eligible to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London ( RCP ) because he was not a graduate of Oxford or Cambridge.

When an opportunity for the RCP to stand occurred, the party stood their leader, Jock Haston, in the Neath by-election of 1945.

When the RCP split in 1977 this struggle was reflected in the RSB ; a significant section of the Revolutionary Student Brigade left the RCP, taking the RSB name with them.

When he told her God had called the child to Him, she rejected his words rebelliously.

When Ewen rejected these attempts, Alexander sailed forth to compel him, but on the way he suffered a fever at the Isle of Kerrera in the Inner Hebrides.

When the government proposed a new federal code of civil procedure in 2006, replacing the cantonal codes of civil procedure, it rejected the introduction of class actions, arguing that:

When they rejected ratification of the Maastricht Treaty on 2 June 1992, they put the EC's plans for the European Union on hold.

When asked during a 2007 phone-in interview on XETRA-FM if he ever had any notions of performing in an Oingo Boingo reunion, Elfman immediately rejected the idea and stated that in the last few years with the band he had begun to develop significant and irreversible hearing damage as a result of his continuous exposure to the high noise levels involved in performing in a rock band.

When used to describe offered traffic, a value followed by “ erlangs ” represents the average number of concurrent calls that would have been carried if there were an unlimited number of circuits ( that is, if the call-attempts that were made when all circuits were in use had not been rejected ).

When he rejected an offer from businessman Gus Mears to move Fulham to land where the present-day Chelsea stadium Stamford Bridge is situated, Mears decided to create his own team to occupy the ground.

When this was rejected, Goebbels decided that further efforts were futile.

When Mexico rejected American annexation of Texas, Polk led the nation to a sweeping victory in the Mexican-American War, which gave the United States most of its present Southwest.

When France rejected Neurath's note, Germany stormed out of the League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference, and all but announced its intention to unilaterally violate Part V. Consequently, there were several calls in France that autumn for a preventive war to put an end to the Nazi regime while Germany was still more-or-less disarmed.

When the colonial administration rejected the People's Assembly's recommendations, Nkrumah organized a " Positive Action " campaign on 01 January 1950, including civil disobedience, non-cooperation, boycotts, and strikes.

When Singing Grass chose Carson over Chouinard, the rejected suitor became belligerent.

When later asked for clarifications, Konoe said he meant more than just non-recognition of Chiang's regime but " rejected it " and would " eradicate it ".,

When a joint German-Soviet peace initiative was rejected by Britain and France on 28 September 1939, Soviet foreign policy became critical of the Allies and more pro-German in turn.

When, in September 1862, the Abgeordnetenhaus ( House of Deputies ) overwhelmingly rejected the proposed budget, Wilhelm was persuaded to recall Bismarck to Prussia on the advice of Roon.

When comparing two hypotheses and using some information, frequency methods would typically result in the rejection or non-rejection of the original hypothesis at a particular significance level, and frequentists would all agree that the hypothesis should be rejected or not at that level of significance.

When its contents were read to the clergy and people in the church of St. Mary Major in 656, they not only rejected the letter with indignation, but would not allow the pope to leave the basilica until he had promised that he would not on any account accept it.

When his attempt to secure confirmation of Gaidar as prime minister was rejected, Yeltsin appointed Viktor Chernomyrdin, whom the parliament approved because he was viewed as more economically conservative than Gaidar.

When the abbot complained to the Confederates about the damages and demanded full compensation, Varnbüler responded with a counter suit and in cooperation with Schwendiner rejected the arbitration efforts of the non-partisan Confederates.

When Mussorgsky's subsequent opera Khovanshchina was rejected for production in 1883, the Imperial Opera Committee reputedly said: " One radical opera by Mussorgsky is enough.

When the bosses rejected his bid to become the mayoral candidate, Cermak swore revenge.

When Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research initially rejected by Nature and published only after Lauterbur appealed the rejection, Nature acknowledged more of its own missteps in rejecting papers in an editorial titled " Coping with Peer Rejection ":

When that demand was rejected, Capua allied with Carthage against Rome.

When the Lords rejected the Reform Bill, public violence ensued.

When he was rejected by the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 1898, he spent the next three years taking private painting classes, visiting Paris, and becoming familiar with the contemporary impressionist scene that was popular at this time.