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 used in an attempt to be offensive, the word is still considered vulgar, but it remains a mild example of such an insult.

When the Russian Army opened its offensive toward Lwów, Banach left for Kraków, where he spent rest of the war.

When a unit comes up, the commander specifies an order and if offensive action is being taken, a target, along with details about distance.

When Gérôme exhibited For Sale ; Slaves at Cairo at the Royal Academy in London in 1871, it was " widely found offensive ", perhaps partly because the British liked to think they had successfully suppressed the slave trade in Egypt, also for cruelty and " representing fleshiness for its own sake ".

When the Druk Desi invaded Sikkim in 1770, Cooch Behari forces joined their Bhutanese counterparts in the offensive.

When the offensive failed Falkenhayn ordered the capture of Ypres to gain a local advantage.

When Mersault is prosecuted for shooting an Arab man during a fight, the prosecuting attorneys seem more interested in the inability or unwillingness of Meursault to cry at his mother's funeral than the murder of the Arab, because they find his lack of remorse offensive.

When he introduced the notion of secondary average, it was as a vehicle for the then-counterintuitive concept that batting average represents only a fraction of a player's offensive contribution.

When Piłsudski carried out a military thrust into Ukraine in 1920, he was met by a Red Army offensive that drove into Polish territory almost to Warsaw.

When Jourdan heard of French successes against the Army of the Upper Rhine, he went over to the offensive.

When the British Fourth Division arrived under General George Cathcart, they were finally able to go on the offensive.

When the book was first published, Whitman was fired from his job at the Department of the Interior after Secretary of the Interior James Harlan read it and said he found it offensive.

When Rundstedt heard about it, he ordered an investigation, but in the chaos of the failing offensive nothing came of this.

" When asked if they had anything against disabled people, she stated that she finds it offensive to refer to people by that term, and added, " We take pictures together and make sure they have priority seats concerts.

When the Hungarian offensive is launched, we shall retreat to the line of demaracation and launch the counteroffensive from that line.

When Keitel explained the political importance of the offensive Guderian remarked " How many people do you think even know where Kursk is?

When he submitted another petition in more offensive language to the king three years later, his renewed complaints involved him in a government prosecution.

When a defensive line was too extensive to be entirely bypassed, massive offensive might could be massed against one part of the line allowing a breakthrough, after which the rest of the line could be bypassed.

When he testified at Admiral Kimmel ’ s hearing after the Pearl Harbor debacle, he stated that the Americans had to “ get to the other fellow with everything you have as fast as you can and to dump it on him .” Halsey testified he would never hesitate to use the carrier as an offensive weapon.

When the main NLF operation began the next morning, the offensive was countrywide in scope and well coordinated, with more than 80, 000 communist troops striking more than 100 towns and cities, including 36 of 44 provincial capitals, five of the six autonomous cities, 72 of 245 district towns, and the southern capital.

Hanoi had in no way anticipated the political and psychological effect the offensive would have on the leadership and population of the U. S. When the northern leadership saw how the U. S. was reacting to the offensive, they began to propagandize their " victory ".

When the war against Poland was started in 1655, Gustav Horn directed the defense of Sweden, while offensive forces went to Poland.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

When Peter B. Kyne ( Pride Of Palomar, 43 ) informed us in 1921 that we had an instinctive dislike for the Japanese, did the heated debates of the Californians settle the truth or falsity of the proposition??

When I returned to make my report, the Hetman did not remember having sent me on the secret mission.

When Mrs. Coolidge was in mourning, she did not wear black.

When the end did come, and the schools were disbanded and abandoned, we felt and hoped that the machinery of psychological warfare would not be allowed to rust.

When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;

When did you last compare your present premium costs with the costs of insurance from other sources??

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

When informed that there were some persons who did not have their arm go up, she commented, `` I don't see how they can prevent it ''.

When go represents itself and a complement ( being equivalent, say, to go to Martinique ) in which boat did Jack go on??

When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.

When the house was about half consumed, his comrade ran to the door and threw up his hands, declaring repeatedly that he did not know the whereabouts of Manuel.

When did women begin to assert themselves sexually??

When the shaken Palmer finally did hit his fourth shot, he overshot the hole by 15 feet.

`` When you came up to the majors, did you seek out Williams for advice ''??

When I did, she shrugged her shoulders and said that Reuveni wanted her to marry him.

When he finally did he had to duck his head quickly away as the pitch came in.

When he at last did go to his room, he couldn't sleep and instead paced up and down before his little image of Acala, thinking first of Charlotte's tale of the man at Ryusenji, then of his biwa and the invisible Pacific waters.

" When the final payment on the farm was owed, Sam May refused to cover his brother-in-law's debts, as he often did, possibly at Abby May's suggestion.

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 Secretary Stanton did not join the President's opposition to the Reconstruction acts, Johnson decided to dismiss him together with his radical subordinates.

When the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, he fled and left Spain, but did not abdicate the throne.

When they sought advice about this event, an oracle told them to take the head down and bury it, and to make annual sacrifice to Onesilos as a hero, saying that it would be better for them if they did this.

" When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer ," Fleming would later say, " But I suppose that was exactly what I did.

When this heresy-decree, to be made effective, was forwarded to other congregations for approval, the friends of liberal thought, under the leadership of the Tibbonites, issued a counter-ban, and the conflict threatened to assume a serious character, as blind party zeal ( this time on the liberal side ) did not shrink from asking the civil powers to intervene.