When looking for a long-term partner more conventional altruism may be preferred which may indicate that he is also willing to share resources with her and her children while when looking for a short-term partner heroic risk-taking, which may be costly signal showing good genes, may be more preferable.

When the Israelites, led by Joshua toward the Promised Land, arrived at the banks of the River Jordan, the Ark was carried in the lead preceding the people and was the signal for their advance ( Joshua 3: 3, 6 ).

When compressed, the crystal produces a small electrical current, so when placed under the bridge saddle, the vibrations of the strings through the saddle, and of the body of the instrument, are converted to a weak electrical signal.

When analog television was developed, no affordable technology for storing any video signals existed ; the luminance signal has to be generated and transmitted at the same time at which it is displayed on the CRT.

When gastric hydrochloric acid reaches the nerves in the gastrointestinal mucosa, they signal pain to the central nervous system.

When conjugation is initiated by a signal the relaxase enzyme creates a nick in one of the strands of the conjugative plasmid at the oriT.

When the Laplace transform is performed on a discrete-time signal ( with each element of the discrete-time sequence attached to a correspondingly delayed unit impulse ), the result is precisely the Z transform of the discrete-time sequence with the substitution of

When the key was not in use, that switch was kept closed, so that a signal was continually sent.

When she was half a mile away, Baralong ran up a signal flag indicating that she was going to rescue Nicosians crew.

When Datis surrendered and was ready for retreat, the Ionians climbed the trees and gave the Athenians the signal that the cavalry had left.

When the Athenian line was ready, according to one source, the simple signal to advance was given by Miltiades: " At them ".

When the trumpet signal for the start rang out, Antony's fleet began issuing from the straits, and the ships moved into line and remained quiet.

When the infant BBC Television service was started in 1936, Rediffusion, which had supplied cable radio services since 1928, started providing " Pipe TV " to its customers who had difficulties tuning into the weak TV broadcast signal.

When the bridge was in use, boaters would signal the operator, who would start a diesel engine and rotate the bridge to the open position on a large gear.

When the keyboard processor detects that a key has changed state, it sends a signal to the CPU indicating the scan code of the key and its new state.

When Greek orthography was codified by grammarians in the Hellenistic era, they used a diacritic symbol derived from this half-H shape to signal the presence of / h /, and added as its counterpart a reverse-shaped diacritic to denote absence of / h /.

When the power supply to the amplifier is first switched on, electronic noise in the circuit provides a signal to get oscillations started.

When such a system is subject to an impulse ( or any signal of finite duration ) it will respond with an output waveform which lasts past the duration of the input, eventually decaying exponentially in one or another manner, but never completely settling to zero ( mathematically speaking ).

When a pedal is off or inactive, the electric audio signal coming in to the pedal is diverted onto a " bypass ", resulting in a " dry " signal which continues on to other effects down the chain.

When a pilot moves the control column ( or sidestick ), a signal is sent to a computer ( analogous to moving a game controller ) the signal is sent through multiple wires ( channels ) to ensure that the signal reaches the computer.

When it appeared that the revolt would succeed, the Thrintun elders built and used a psychic amplifier that forced every sentient being in the galaxy to commit suicide, the signal repeating for centuries.

When they first married he had been working in the fields all day, and she would get in the car and drive to wherever he was working, to take him a fresh hot meal.

When they do that my wife has to drive me to work in the big car.

When Palmer hit a good straight drive up the fairway on the 72nd hole, he seemed to have the championship won.

When you drive a car at night through falling rain, the rain drops illuminated by your car's headlights appear to fall from a position in the sky well in front of your car.

When defending against a smash, players have three basic options: lift, block, or drive.

When the PC starts up, the first job for the BIOS is the power-on self-test, which initializes and identifies system devices such as the CPU, RAM, video display card, keyboard and mouse, hard disk drive, optical disc drive and other hardware.

When used together with the C128, it implements faster burst mode access than the Commodore 1571 5¼ " drive.

When using the 1581 together with the older C64, however, it is almost as slow as the older 1541 drive, due to limitations of the C64's ROM code.

When the men left the highlands to drive their cattle to market in Edinburgh the women would prepare rations for them to eat during the long journey down through the glens.

When Vortigern and his nobility catch word of the imminent arrival of the Saxon fleet, they meet in counsel, and resolve to drive the Saxons from their coasts.

When asked about her interest in politics, she responded, " It doesn't drive me.

When my ancestors arrived in Palestine, they did not intend to depose the local Arabs and drive them into refugee camps — but in the end, that's what they did.

When done the drive RPM was sped up back to normal and an uncracked copy was made.

When the silent drive is engaged, the submarine disappears off the sonar of the USS Dallas, a Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine, which was tracking Red October since she put to sea.

When they got a Graphic Systems CAT phototypesetter, Ossanna wrote a version of nroff that would drive it.

When the drive detects an idle period, it re-reads the fragmented segments into a buffer and writes them back over the fragmented sections-a ' virtual backhitch '.

When in position, " beaters " move through the areas of cover, swinging sticks or flags to drive the game out.

When used on a drive train they are sometimes known as giubos.

When they stop for a break, Danker tries to drive off with their luggage.

When the council had concluded, the decrees were sent to Rome where they were confirmed by Agatho's successor, Pope Leo II The subsequent Byzantine tradition came to interpret the decrees in line with the teaching of Maximus the Confessor, which brilliantly combined a recognition ( shared with the monotheletes ) that all Christ's individual actions were directed by his divine will with an insistence that his human will nevertheless possessed true spontaneity, in virtue of its intrinsic drive ( as created ) to obey its Creator.

When this happens, the good cells will start to drive the discharged cell in reverse, which can cause permanent damage to that cell.

When General Fitts ( Henry O ' Neal ) arrives at the base with his daughter Kit ( Keeler ), Dick is assigned to drive her to the reception that evening.

When the hydrazine and water mixture is released and passes across a catalyst of iridium, it spontaneously ignites, creating hot expanding gases which drive the turbine.