When outlaw gangs were near, towns would raise a posse ( like in the movies ) to attempt to drive them away or capture them.

When violence erupted in a district, the time-consuming process involved the constable summoning the county sheriff, who would organize a posse.

When he stopped to speak with Henry Methvin's father ( planted there with his truck that morning to distract Clyde and force him into the lane closest to the posse ), the lawmen opened fire, killing Bonnie and Clyde while shooting a combined total of approximately 130 rounds.

When John was unsuccessful, he went to Tucson and recruited a posse for a second attempt at finding his wife.

When one of the posse aims a gun at Cronin, Shasta shoots Whitey under the table, and Cronin and McNally finish off the posse.

When Eskil stepped down as Archbishop of Lund in 1177, he chose Absalon as his successor.

When Thespis stepped out from the chorus, he spoke as if he was the character ( for example, " I am Dionysus.

When Benny stepped in as the Hep Stars ' keyboardist in October of that year, he knew this was what he wanted to do.

When the production of Richard Kelly's debut film, Donnie Darko, was threatened, Barrymore stepped forward with financing from Flower Films and took the small role of Karen Pomeroy, the title character's English teacher.

" When he stepped down as director he received a Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Federal Service.

Years later, in recalling the events of the day, Parks said, " When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night.

When President Andrew Jackson was leaving the Capitol out of the East Portico after the funeral of South Carolina Representative Warren R. Davis, Richard Lawrence, an unemployed and deranged housepainter from England, either burst from a crowd or stepped out from hiding behind a column and aimed a pistol at Jackson which misfired.

When the Palestinian National Council convened in Cairo on 3 February 1969, Yahya Hammuda stepped down from his chairmanship of the PLO.

When party leader Tage Erlander stepped down in 1969, Palme was elected as the new leader by the Social Democratic party congress and succeeded Erlander as Prime Minister.

When it became evident she was taking advantage of her power, Dennis stepped up proclaiming she couldn't boss him around.

When a stepped leader approaches the ground, the presence of opposite charges on the ground enhances the strength of the electric field.

When Oedipus stepped down as King of Thebes, he gave the kingdom to his two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, who both agreed to alternate the throne every year.

When Oedipus stepped down as King of Thebes, he gave the kingdom to Eteocles and Polynices, who both agreed to alternate the throne every year.

When in office, van Agt was a staunch supporter of Israel, but after he stepped down in 1982 he changed his mind.

When Rowan Atkinson fell ill in April 2009, Russ Abbot stepped in to the play the role.

When Heine challenged another student, Wiebel, to a duel ( the first of ten known incidents throughout his life ), the authorities stepped in and Heine was suspended from the university for six months.

When the civil rights leader John Lewis and another black man stepped off the bus at Rock Hill, they were beaten by a white mob that was uncontrolled by police.

When Eisner stepped down in 2005, his replacement, Robert Iger, bought Pixar in a $ 7. 4 billion all-stock deal ($ in today's dollars ) that turned Steve Jobs into Disney's largest individual shareholder.

When Jiang Zemin stepped down in 2003, the offices of General Secretary and President were once again both given to one man, then Vice-President Hu Jintao.

When Karajan stepped down, the post was offered to Carlos Kleiber, but he declined.

When Jaco left BS & T, he was briefly succeeded by Keith Jones, before Danny Trifan stepped in.

When he stepped forward toward it, it receded and then faded away.

When he stepped down on July 7, 2006, he was the longest serving Secretary of Transportation since the position's inception in 1967.

When the assembly fined Dionysius for his seditious language, Philistus stepped in to pay Dionysius ' fines, with the promise to continue paying for them so long as the council saw fit to issue them.

When Callaghan stepped down as Labour leader in November 1980, Healey was favourite to win the Labour Party leadership election, decided by Labour MPs.

When these had been pocketed, we could still spend a morning cracking open other pebbles for our delight in seeing how much prettier they were inside than their dull exteriors indicated.

When it became obvious that he could stay inside no longer, taking a thousand to one chance Gonzales rushed outside, square against the muzzle of a Winchester.

When yuh come back I'll put it out agin till you're both inside ''.

When the Olympian deities overtook the older deities of Greece and she was born of Metis ( inside Zeus who had swallowed the goddess ) and " re-born " through the head of Zeus fully clothed, Athena already wore her typical garments.

When there are no enemy discs on the board, many ( but not all ) rules also state that a player must shoot for the centre of the board, and a shot disc must finish either completely inside the 15-point guarded ring line, or ( depending on the specifics of the rules ) be inside or touching this line.

When playing without this rule, a player may generally make any shot desired, and as long as a disc remains completely inside the outer line of the playfield, it remains on the board.

When a body is acted upon by external contact forces, internal contact forces are then transmitted from point to point inside the body to balance their action, according to Newton's second law of motion of conservation of linear momentum and angular momentum ( for continuous bodies these laws are called the Euler's equations of motion ).

When the piston has moved up to the top of its stroke inside the cylinder, and the remaining volume inside the head or combustion chamber has been reduced to 100 cc, then the compression ratio would be proportionally described as 1000: 100, or with fractional reduction, a 10: 1 compression ratio.

When A, B and C are sorted in a counterclockwise order, this determinant is positive if and only if D lies inside the circumcircle.

When pairs of horses are used in drawing a wagon or coach it is usual for the outer side of each pair to be connected to reins and the inside of the bits connected by a short bridging strap or rope.

When the current flowing through an inductor changes, creating a time-varying magnetic field inside the coil, a voltage is induced, according to Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction, which by Lenz's law opposes the change in current that created it.

When an optical amplifier is placed inside a resonant optical cavity, one obtains a laser oscillator.

When this angle is exceeded, photons no longer penetrate the semiconductor but are instead reflected both internally inside the semiconductor crystal and externally off the surface of the crystal as if it were a mirror.

When a person is inside the powerful magnetic field of the scanner, the average magnetic moment of many protons becomes aligned with the direction of the field.

When the BBC attempted to interview a lady who had entered her house's poltergeist on her census form, the recorder was repeatedly found to play back properly outside the house, but not inside.

When Polyphemus returns home with his flocks and finds Odysseus and his men, he blocks the cave entrance with a great stone, trapping the remaining Greeks inside.

When the coconut supply was halted by the strike, resourceful Ricardo Gracia made the executive decision to relocate the ingredients of the Coco-Loco inside hollowed out pineapples ( evidently the pineapple cutters ’ union had not followed suit with a strike of their own ).

When the king was absent from the city, the prefect held all of the king's powers and abilities, even to the point of being bestowed with imperium while inside the city.

When these stones were removed, the workmen found inside the remains of an oak coffin the complete skeleton of an individual entirely enclosed in two layers of thin lead, with a shroud of cloth of gold over it.

When Germain was 13, the Bastille fell, and the revolutionary atmosphere of the city forced her to stay inside.

When a neurotransmitter is released at a synapse, it reaches its highest concentration inside the narrow space of the synaptic cleft, but some of it is certain to diffuse away before being reabsorbed or broken down.

The Starfleet Engineering Corps ( also called the Starfleet Corps of Engineers ) is mentioned in several episodes in conjunction with projects such as hollowing out the underground laboratory complex inside the Regula I asteroid in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the design of the Yellowstone-class Runabout in the alternate timeline in the Star Trek: Voyager episode " Non Sequitur ", and devising a defense against the Breen energy-dampening weapon in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " When It Rains ..." As a result of these successes, Starfleet engineers have gained a reputation as the undisputed masters of technological adaptation and modification.

When demonstrators broke through the windows — which had been covered by plywood by the bar owners to deter the police from raiding the bar — the police inside unholstered their pistols.