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 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.

When the offensive did begin, a total of 27 allied maneuver battalions defended the city and the surrounding area.

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 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 that failed, he enlisted Branch Rickey's aid in the formation of a third major league, the Continental, with New York as the key franchise.

When the Confederate attempt to defend Petersburg failed, the Confederate army retreated but was pursued and defeated, which resulted in Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

When his quest to keep the team in Milwaukee finally failed after the 1965 season, he changed the group's name to Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc., after the minor league baseball team he grew up watching, and devoted himself to returning Major League Baseball to Milwaukee.

When the coach failed and injured Winterbottom, he sued Wright.

When machine translation ( also known as mechanical translation ) failed to yield accurate translations right away, automated processing of human languages was recognized as far more complex than had originally been assumed.

When the business failed, his father would quietly turn the huge stacks of useless stationery and pencils over to his children, requiring them to use up all the material as fast as possible.

When Domitian found out, he allegedly murdered Paris in the street and promptly divorced his wife, with Suetonius further adding that once Domitia was exiled, Domitian took Julia as his mistress, who later died during a failed abortion.

When this plan failed, privateering became one of the major goals within the WIC.

When he failed in his attempts to meet General Yahya Khan, Masud too resigned from his position as Commander of Eastern Air Command, and took retirement from Air Force.

When Nature failed to do this spontaneously, contact with a conductor of animal magnetism was a necessary and sufficient remedy.

When Godzilla 1985 failed at the box office, it was the last Godzilla film produced by Toho to receive any major release in North American theaters until Godzilla 2000 fifteen years later.

When they failed, several went into hiding and established close ties with Cuba.

When the prophetic powers of the last of the Pythias failed her, Rassilion, Omega and a shadowy figure known as The Other seized power in the name of science and rationality.

When Edgar failed, they suggested to Ricordi that he should drop Puccini, but Ricordi said that he would stay with him and made him an allowance from his own pocket until his next opera.

When this failed and Barcelona fell to the Nationalists in early 1939, it was clear the war was over.

When the counter-attack failed to stop the Soviet advance, Hitler held Himmler personally liable and accused him of not following orders.

When Saddam Hussein failed to comply with this demand, the Gulf War ( Operation " Desert Storm ") ensued on January 17, 1991.

When it failed to become the hit that was expected, Frankenheimer admitted he developed a serious problem with alcohol.

When this threat failed, Innocent excommunicated the king in November 1209.

When the VNQDD fled to China after the failed uprising against the French, they settled in Yunnan and Canton, in two different branches.

" When Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, contact with his Soviet controllers was lost and Philby failed to attend meetings.

When the storms failed to return in 1899, it was generally thought that the dust had moved on and storms were a thing of the past.

When a young mechanic failed to repair the car in a way satisfactory to Stein, the garage owner shouted at the boy, " You are all a " génération perdue.

When PenPoint failed in the marketplace, SmartSketch was ported to Microsoft Windows and Mac OS.