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When and projectile
When a projectile is thrown by hand, the speed of the projectile is determined by the kinetic energy imparted by the thrower's muscles performing work.
When the bomb reached the design height for this stage ( reportedly 2, 000 meters ) the membrane closed a circuit, activating the circuit between the radar altimeters and the projectile gun.
When the projectile leaves the barrel, this spin lends gyroscopic stability to the projectile and prevents tumbling, in the same way that a properly thrown American football or rugby ball behaves.
When emplaced, the howitzer's high volume of fire compensates in large measure for the lower explosive weight of the projectile compared to the Army's 155mm and 8-inch howitzers.
When a hollow-point hunting bullet strikes a soft target, the pressure created in the pit forces the material ( usually lead ) around the inside edge to expand outwards, increasing the axial diameter of the projectile as it passes through.
When used in the anti-tank role, a projectile that uses a shaped charge warhead is known by the acronym HEAT ( high explosive anti-tank ).
When a conductive projectile is inserted between the rails ( at the end connected to the power supply ), it completes the circuit.
When fired, however, instead of all the propellant blast following the projectile out the barrel, a large portion is allowed to escape to the rear, gaining a rearward directed momentum which is nearly equal to the forward momentum of the projectile.
When the projectile nears this point the electromagnet is switched off and the next electromagnet can be switched on, progressively accelerating the projectile down successive stages.
When the flux in the projectile lies in the linear portion of its material's B ( H ) curve, the force applied to the core is proportional to the square of coil current ( I )— the field ( H ) is linearly dependent on I, B is linearly dependent on H and force is linearly dependent on the product BI.
When wielded, it can shoot energy blasts from the hand or sword, fire projectile darts, and extrude whip-like grapples to attack or to climb.
When it reaches the base of the tube it hits a firing pin, which detonates the propellant and fires the projectile.
When the round is fired, the projectile is pushed off the spigot, but before the plug clears the spigot it is caught by a constriction at the base of the tube.
When fired the reaction gases ( with a momentum equal to the projectile ) expelled out of the back of the weapon compensate the force exerted on the projectile.
When a gun is fired, it initiates a spherical shock wave but the projectile also generates a conical wave.
When in flight, the main forces acting on the projectile are gravity, drag and if present wind.
When the projectile is fired, the sabot blocks the gas, and carries the projectile down the barrel.

When and is
When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.
When they express themselves it is incandescent hatred that shines forth, the rage of repudiation, the ecstasy of negation.
When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.
When the proprietor dies, the establishment should become a corporation until it is either acquired by another proprietor or the government decides to drop it.
When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.
When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.
When someone in the audience rose and asked how does it feel to be a celebrity, Carl said, `` A celebrity is a fellow who eats celery with celerity ''.
When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.
When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.
When we turn to Aristotle's ideas on the moral measure of literature, it is at once apparent that he is at times equally concerned about the influence of the art.
When their faith in civil liberties is tested against strong pressures of social expediency in specific issues, e.g., suppression of `` dangerous ideas '', many waver and give in.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.
When all else fails, it is argued that open sessions slow down governmental operations.
When a person has thoughtlessly or deliberately caused us pain or hardship it is not always easy to say, `` Just forget it ''.
When a person meets God's requirements for the experience of forgiveness he is forgiven.
When I hold my son he stiffens his whole body in my arms until he is as straight and stiff as a board.
When different colors are used, she is just as likely to color trees purple, hair green, etc..
When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, and when we realize that concessions to Communists do not insure peace or freedom, then, and only then will we no longer be `` soft ''.
When one powerful nation strives to emulate the success of another, it is only natural.
When a man is laid to rest, he is entitled to stay put.
When I talked to Ching about it, he said, Everyone can learn, if he is not a Reactionary or lazy.

When and into
When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.
When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:
When his head came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall.
When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.
When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;
When Beckett's name came into the discussion, the priest grew loud and told me that Beckett `` hates life ''.
When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.
When Dr. Adenauer was approached by a world citizen delegation to find out his disposition of my case, he gave them his personal approval of my entry, saying that all men advocating peace should be welcomed into Germany.
When their levies came shambling into camp, they were all elbows, hair, and beard.
When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.
When a dancer does well, she provokes a quiet bombardment of dollar bills -- although the Manhattan clubs prohibit the more cosmopolitan practice of slipping the tips into the dancers' costumes.
When the knife went into his chest, he went down at once.
When the sun came out, Stevie strode proudly into Orange Square, smiling like a landlord on industrious tenants.
When Joe identified himself, he nodded, unsmiling, and ushered him into a sedate living room.
When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.
When we separated that evening Pat pushed a hundred dollar bill into Eileen's hand to help towards a layette.
When he had given the call a few moments thought, he went into the kitchen to ask Mrs. Yamata to prepare tea and sushi for the visitors, using the formal English china and the silver tea service which had been donated to the mission, then he went outside to inspect the grounds.
When the roof blocks are all in place, the final rows of wall blocks are mortared into position.
When the front knee is straight and locked, allow it to bend again until you feel the bar come lightly into contact with the sides of the Power Stands.
When you and your dog step into the Junior ring, it should be just what the dog wants to do as much as what you want him to do.
When you start the outdoor performance, you can stay outdoors without a dozen running trips into the kitchen.
When Stravinsky shaped his purpose to the shifting scenes of many cultures, many salons, many dialectics, many personalities, he tried to refashion himself into a stylist of many styles, determined by many disparate cultures.
When the child raises his seat into the air, the teacher takes hold under both sides of the pelvis ; ;
When I arrived at Viola's I was shown, to my surprise, into the kitchen.

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