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 he declared to the House of Commons in November 1993 that " to sit down and talk with Mr. Adams and the Provisional IRA ... would turn my stomach ", Sinn Féin gave the media an outline of the secret talks indeed held regularly since that February.

When asked whether he felt Donaldson's role as an informer in Sinn Féin was significant, the IRA double agent using the pseudonym " Kevin Fulton " described Donaldson's role as a spy within Sinn Féin as " the tip of the iceberg ".

When, at the December 1969 IRA convention and the January 1970 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis the delegates voted to participate in the Dublin ( Leinster House ), Belfast ( Stormont ) and London ( Westminster ) parliaments, the organizations split.

When challenged on this, Maguire claimed that, as the IRA “ were no longer the same as they used to be ”, he disagreed with the organisation.

When WW2 broke out, the old IRA and old Fianna organisations marched as a body to Griffith Barracks in Dublin and they joined the Irish Army there as a separate battalion.

When an IRA bomb goes off, the wife and children of molecular biologist John Roe O ' Neill are killed on May 20, 1996.

When the convoy appeared minutes later, the IRA concentrated their attack on the second car on the basis of incorrect intelligence: French was actually in the first car.

When the IRA moved the regatta to other venues, the Mid-Hudson Rowing Association was formed to preserve rowing in the area.

When the IRA occupied the Four Courts, he and Oscar Traynor called on them to abandon their position.

When I learnt of all that was needed in the way of weapons, I wondered exactly what was the military value of the IRA.

When MacNelly represented the Irish Republican Army as a leprechaun that was a rat in one of his Chicago Tribune syndicated editorial cartoons after the IRA blew up a bus filled with schoolchildren, protesters objecting to the cartoon's contents picketed outside the Boston Globes offices for three weeks.

When the Provisional IRA blew up the Arndale shopping centre in the 1996 Manchester bombing one of the few things to survive unscathed was a Victorian pillar box dating from 1887 ( A type A Jubilee pillar ).

When he leaves their hotel, he gets into his car, which he thinks is being driven by his chauffeur but in fact has been taken over by two IRA men.

When Sinn Féin voted to recognise the Dáil of the Republic of Ireland and enter it ( if elected ) in 1986, a small group that included many of the founders of the Provisional movement broke away from Sinn Féin and the Provisional IRA and formed Republican Sinn Féin and its own small Continuity IRA.

When Stuart's plans for travelling to Germany were finalised, he received a visit from his brother-in-law, Sean MacBride, this meeting followed the seizure of an IRA transmitter on 29 December 1939, which had been used to contact Germany.

When IRA chief of staff Seán Russell departed on IRA business to the USA ( and subsequently to Nazi Germany ), Hayes was left in control of the organisation.

When the hunger strike ended in late 1981, Walsh became the Officer Commanding ( OC ) of the IRA prisoners in the H-Blocks.

When Cahill demanded a cut of the profits, Gardai believe that Traynor and Gilligan approached the IRA and suggested that Cahill was importing heroin, a drug that the IRA despised and were trying to curtail the distribution of within Dublin.

When the IRA split in 1969, between " Official IRA " and " Provisional IRA " factions, McGirl sided with the Provisionals, who were committed to launching an armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.