When a monarch does act, political controversy can often ensue, partially because the neutrality of the crown is seen to be compromised in favour of a partisan goal, while some political scientists champion the idea of an " interventionist monarch " as a check against possible illegal action by politicians.

When Republican Rome turned into a de facto monarchy in the second half of the 1st century BC, at first there was no name for the title of the new type of monarch.

When the monarch has no or few legal restraints in state and political matters, it is called an absolute monarchy and is a form of autocracy.

When the monarch grew tired of a first minister, he or she could be dismissed, or worse: Cromwell was executed and Clarendon driven into exile when they lost favour.

When Shaka's mother Nandi died for example, the monarch ordered a massive outpouring of grief including mass executions, forbidding the planting of crops or the use of milk, and the killing of all pregnant women and their husbands.

When Stephen reached adolescence, Great Prince Géza convened an assembly where they decided that Stephen would follow his father as the monarch of the Hungarians.

When Yoshifusa's grandson was enthroned as Emperor Seiwa, Yoshifusa was assumed the role of regent ( sesshō ) for the young monarch.

When Franco died on 20 November 1975 a Bourbon monarch was restored to the throne of Spain two days later as Juan Carlos I.

When the monarch is not in residence, the Union Flag is flown at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Sandringham House, whereas in Scotland the Royal Standard of Scotland is flown at Holyrood Palace and Balmoral Castle.

When Dunstan eventually found the young monarch, he was cavorting with a noblewoman named Æthelgifu and refused to return with the bishop.

When the death of that monarch deprived him of the assistance which he had just received, he went to Muzaffar Husain Mirza at Kandahar, and then to Mirza Muhammad Hakim at Kabul.

When people use metonymy, they do not typically wish to transfer qualities from one referent to another as they do with metaphor: there is nothing press-like about reporters or crown-like about a monarch, but " the press " and " the crown " are both common metonyms.

" When witnessing a failed peace conference, Cadfael forms the opinion that Maud's half-brother Robert would have made a better monarch then both of them, but for his illegitimate birth ( which would not have debarred Robert in Wales, with its law having a different definition of a bastard ).

When ambassadors from Emperor Zara Yaqob attended the Council of Florence in 1441, they were confused when council prelates insisted on referring to their monarch as Prester John.

When Frederick William decided that he could gain very little by continuing to battle the astonishingly effective revolutionary forces of the young Republic of France, and that there were much easier pickings for his army in the Kingdom of Poland, he stopped armed hostilities with the Republic and turned the state prisoners back over to his erstwhile coalition partner, the Habsburg Austrian monarch Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor.

When Emperor Buretsu died with no apparent heir, it was Ōtomo no Kanamura who recommended Emperor Keitai, a very distant imperial relative who resided in Koshi Province, as the new monarch.

When Queen Victoria died, for a short time she was known as HRH Princess Mary of Cornwall and York ( as her father was now the eldest living son of the monarch and thus Duke of Cornwall as well as Duke of York ) and then HRH

When a male monarch held the title his wife, the queen consort, used the style Queen-Empress, but was not herself a reigning monarch.

When Parliament reconvened that year they denounced the Declaration and announced that the English monarch did not possess the power to issue proclamations that suspended penal laws passed by the Parliament.

When Faisal was deposed by the French in 1920, Nuri followed the exiled monarch to Iraq, and in 1922 became first director general of the Iraqi police force.

When Rama I became the Thai monarch, he appointed Luang Surin Phakdi as the province's governor.

When the French-installed monarch fell in 1867, Republican forces under Francisco Leyva, Ignacio Figueroa, and Ignacio Manuel Altamirano laid siege to Cuernavaca, which was defended by General Joaquín Ayestarán.

When, in my enthusiasm, I proposed the party, my city editor ( who disliked the club and many of its members ) tried to block my participation in the gala event.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

When the Export-Import Bank is prepared to act favorably upon an application, it will so notify the Department of Economic Affairs and will indicate the interest rate and the repayment period which would be used under the proposed loan.

When the Export-Import Bank approves or declines the proposed loan, it will notify the Department of Economic Affairs.

When the presidential election of 1856 approached, Johnson and supporters harbored a vague hope for the presidency, and he gave a speech to the Tennessee Democratic delegates reiterating his views ; some county conventions designated him a favorite son and the Nashville Union and American proposed his nomination.

When Hunt, Adams, and Howsam were unable to secure a controlling interest in the Chicago Cardinals, they approached NFL commissioner Bert Bell and proposed the addition of expansion teams.

When assured by Mersenne that it was, indeed, the product of the son not the father, Descartes dismissed it with a sniff: " I do not find it strange that he has offered demonstrations about conics more appropriate than those of the ancients ," adding, " but other matters related to this subject can be proposed that would scarcely occur to a sixteen-year-old child.

When continuity mistakes have been made, explanations are often proposed by either writers or fans to smooth over discrepancies.

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 the First Transcontinental Railroad was proposed in the 1850s, Atchison called for it to be built along the central route ( from St. Louis through Missouri, Kansas, and Utah ), rather the southern route ( from New Orleans through Texas and New Mexico ).

When Ford approached the U. S. Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) about regulatory issues, the critical problem was that the ( then ) known forms of air traffic control were inadequate for the volume of traffic Ford proposed.

When looking at these areas ( amygdala ), it was proposed that a person learns to fear regardless of whether they themselves have experienced trauma, or if they have observed the fear in others.

The most important power is found in section 58: " When a proposed law passed by both Houses of Parliament is presented to the Governor-General for the Queen's assent, he shall declare ... that he assents in the Queen's name.

When in December of 1852, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer submitted his budget to Parliament on behalf of the minority government, the Peelites, the Free Traders and the Irish Brigade were all alienated by the proposed budget.

When Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution in 1859, one of its major problems was the lack of an underlying mechanism for heredity.

When the Legislative Assembly met at the beginning of October 1849, Passy proposed an income tax to help balance the finances in France.

When, in 1770, Benjamin West proposed to paint " The Death of General Wolfe " in contemporary dress, he was firmly instructed to use classical costume by many people.

When Trotsky arrived in New York in January 1917, Bukharin was the first to greet him ( as Trotsky's wife recalled, " with a bear hug and immediately began to tell them about a public library which stayed open late at night and which he proposed to show us at once " dragging the tired Trotskys across town " to admire his great discovery ").

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 Orhan succeeded his father, he proposed to his brother, Alaeddin, that they should share the emerging empire.

When such an agreement is proposed, the court can reject it if it disagrees with the proposed sentence, in which case the defendant has an opportunity to withdraw his plea.

When the changes accumulate, the forecasted result may not justify the original proposed investment in the project.

When substitution was proposed before, in 1978, the US appeared reluctant to allow such a mechanism to become operational.

When an amendment to similar effect was proposed at Westminster by John Gretton, the British government duly voted it down.