When specific predictions from astrologers were tested in rigorous experimental procedures in the Carlson test, the predictions were falsified.

When Cassandra of Troy told him she wanted to stay a virgin, Apollo placed a curse on her so that she and all her descendants ' predictions would not be believed.

d. " When you have two competing theories which make exactly the same predictions, the one that is simpler is the better.

When subjects were asked to recall the dreams they had read, they remembered more of the successful predictions than unsuccessful ones.

When Monte Carlo simulations have been applied in space exploration and oil exploration, their predictions of failures, cost overruns and schedule overruns are routinely better than human intuition or alternative " soft " methods.

When no predictions are available, the electron configurations are guessed to be similar to the element directly above them.

When d = 2 these predictions are backed up by arguments from quantum field theory and quantum gravitation, and include predicted numerical values for the exponents.

When the predictions of different theories appear to contradict each other, this is also resolved by either further evidence or unification.

When reunited, the three sets of clocks were found to disagree with one another, and their differences were consistent with the predictions of special and general relativity.

When the number of measurements, N, is larger than the number of unknown parameters, k, and the measurement errors ε < sub > i </ sub > are normally distributed then the excess of information contained in ( N-k ) measurements is used to make statistical predictions about the unknown parameters.

When Witt becomes drunk and starts demoralising the men with his dire predictions, causing the soldiers of the Natal Native Contingent to desert, Chard orders him to be locked in a supply room.

When these predictions failed to come true, Elizabeth Clare Prophet reiterated her statements of impending doom, stating to her congregation: " We need your sacrifice.

When they became part of the astrology of the Hellenistic Age, each decan was associated with ten degrees of the zodiac. Texts from the second century BC list predictions relating to the positions of planets in zodiac signs at the time of the rising of certain decans, particularly Sothis.

When Nostradamus only got 1 out of the 3 of his predictions correct, a barbecue of cress was burnt with a blowlamp.

When Yuan returned, he was told by another advisor Pang Ji ( who disliked Tian ) that Tian had been laughing at Yuan's defeat and overly prideful of his predictions earlier.

When the crowd — eventually reinforced by mutinous gardes françaises — proved a fair match for the fort's defenders, Governor de Launay, the commander of the Bastille, capitulated and opened the gates to avoid a mutual massacre.

When Alexandria harbour proved inadequate for his fleet, Brueys had gathered his captains and discussed their options.

When the TX-0 successfully proved the basic concepts, attention turned to a much larger system, the 36-bit TX-2 with a then-enormous 64 kWords of core memory.

When their conduct proved unsatisfactory, they were almost invariably brought to trial and exiled or executed, and their property was confiscated.

" When the bodies proved to have been discovered near where Aaron indicated, Bray asked Aaron for further details, and Aaron claimed that he had witnessed the murders committed by Satanists who spoke Spanish.

When the authors refused to comply, he ordered it to be destroyed and instead had prepared an alternative report, which proved highly critical of Jellicoe.

When a group or organization was thus declared criminal, the competent national authority of any signatory had the right to bring persons to trial for membership in that organisation, with the criminal nature of the group or organisation assumed proved.

When Germany had its hands free for an attack in the west, the Battle of France began in May 1940, and the same Blitzkrieg tactics proved just as devastating there.

When in 1864 no party proved capable of governing for long, Macdonald agreed to a proposal from his political rival, George Brown, that the parties unite in a Great Coalition to seek federation and political reform.

When Cannon supporters proved difficult to find ( many of the staunchest were Irish and spent the day at various St. Patrick's Day celebrations ), the filibuster continued for 26 hours, with Cannon's present friends making repeated motions for recess and adjournment.

When Tiso proved reluctant to do so on the grounds that the autonomy that had existed since October 1938 was sufficient for him, and to completely sever links with the Czechs would leave Slovakia open to being annexed by Hungary, Ribbentrop had the German Embassy in Budapest contact the Regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy.

When one assumes that an object does not exist and derives a contradiction from that assumption, one still has not found the object and therefore not proved its existence, according to constructivism.

When events in the Franco-Prussian war proved that old-fashioned fortifications were no more of use, this policy was changed and the fortifications were dismantled in 1874.

When this proved too small he took over Winterland and then the Fillmore West ( in San Francisco ) and the Fillmore East ( in New York City ), where the major rock artists, from both the US and the UK, came to play.

When the matter of honorary degrees came up at the University of Göttingen six years after Germain's death, Gauss lamented, “ proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something worthwhile in the most rigorous and abstract of the sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

When reinforcements to the Serbian royal army arrived some weeks later during the Battle of Kumanovo ( 50 km northeast of Skopje ) it proved decisive in firmly driving out the Ottomans from all of Macedonia.

When the password system linking the three games proved too troublesome, the concept was reduced to two games at Miyamoto's suggestion.

When the electrical circuit, consisting of a Daniell cell, a galvanometer of high resistance, and the metallic conductor, consisting of the ebonite plate, and the sheet of copper, or of the tube containing the filings, was completed, only a very small current flowed ; but there was a sudden diminution of the resistance, which was proved by a large deviation of the galvanometer needle when one or more electric discharges were produced in the neighbourhood of the circuit.

When the bay was " rediscovered " by Sir John Ross in 1818, the charts of the Bylot-Baffin voyage proved extremely accurate.

When Data asked Worf to take care of Spot, Worf proved to be allergic to her and sneezed in her face, angering her (" Phantasms ").

When the Netherlands revolted against Spanish rule, beginning in 1566, the territories in what is now Nord-Pas-de-Calais were those most loyal to the throne, and proved the base from which the Duke of Parma was able to bring the whole southern part of the Netherlands back under Spanish control.

When Nikola Tesla, for whom a memorial was later built at Niagara Falls, New York, U. S. A., invented the three-phase system of alternating current power transmission, distant transfer of electricity became possible, as Westinghouse and Tesla had built the AC-power Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant and proved it effective.

When the Indians proved to be a difficult labor force, peasants from surrounding areas were brought into the region.

When the Swedish government needed 20 computers in the 1960s to calculate taxes, an evaluation between Saab's and IBM's machines proved Saab's better.

When Ronald Colman, his first and only choice for the role of Robert Conway, proved to be unavailable, Capra decided to wait and made Mr. Deeds Goes to Town instead.

When the fate of the individual is visited on the group, then ( the warm sweet butter dripped from her raised trembling fork and she pushed her head forward belligerently ), ah, then the true bitterness of existence could be tasted.

`` When you pile your `` guy '' on the bonfire tomorrow night, I wonder how much of the true story of Guy Fawkes you will remember??

When Theseus arrived, he did not reveal his true identity.

When Croatia declared independence in 1991, the only true motorways in the country were Zagreb – Karlovac ( the northernmost part of A1 ) and Zagreb-Slavonski Brod ( A3 ), the latter being part of the highway " Bratstvo i jedinstvo ".

When used in a generic sense, a Buddha is generally considered to be someone who discovers the true nature of reality.

When Hera learned that Semele, daughter of Cadmus King of Thebes, was pregnant by Zeus, she disguised herself as Semele's nurse and persuaded the princess to insist that Zeus show himself to her in his true form.

" When Steve is given an experience of walking through a park, semantic externalism allows for his thought, " I am walking through a park " to be true so long as the simulated reality is one in which he is walking through a park.

When the statement " all A are B " is qualified like this to exclude those A which are not B, this is a form of begging the question ; the conclusion is assumed by the definition of " true A ".

" When is true, is false ; and when is false, is true.

When is true, we cannot consider case 2.

When I say my life began with Ronnie, well, it's true.

When Franz Halder, the Chief of the Army General Staff, heard of the state of the Kriegsmarine, and its plan for the invasion, he noted in his diary, on 28 July 1940, " If that plan is true, all previous statements by the navy were so much rubbish and we can throw away the whole plan of invasion ".

SIAM Journal on Computing, 10 ( 1 ): 96-113 ( 1981 )</ ref > When a question is true for almost all oracles, it is said to be true for a random oracle.

When Gumm finally remembers his true history he decides to emigrate to the Moon after all because he feels that exploration and migration, being as they are basic human impulses, should never be denied a people by any national or planetary government.

When this is done, and it is very common, an attacker can work off-line, rapidly testing candidate passwords against the true password's hash value.

When, after spiritual practice ( sādhanā ), a person realizes that the true " self " is the immortal soul rather than the body or the ego all desires for the pleasures of the world will vanish since they will seem insipid compared to spiritual ānanda.

When the sample is heated, at a certain temperature it will glow from the emission of electrons released from the defects, and this glow can be used to estimate the age of the sample to a threshold of approximately 15 percent of its true age.

When considering the plans of Crown Prince Wilhelm, purely concerned with taking the citadel and not with French casualty figures, it can be considered a true siege.

When sailing upwind the apparent wind is greater than the true wind and the direction of the apparent wind will be forward of the true wind.

" When Lagrange saw the intelligence of M. LeBlanc, he requested a meeting, and thus Sophie was forced to disclose her true identity.

When one says ' It's true that it's raining ,' one asserts no more than ' It's raining.

When, in Buddhahood, one is freed from all mental obscurations, one is said to attain a state of continuous bliss mixed with a simultaneous cognition of emptiness, the true nature of reality.