When it was time to dismantle the city walls of the Meng family, the governor was reluctant to have his city walls torn down and convinced the head of the Meng family not to do so.

When the surviving bacteria exit the stomach and reach the small intestine, they need to propel themselves through the thick mucus that lines the small intestine to get to the intestinal walls, where they can thrive.

When the Bronze Age site at Knossos was excavated by explorer Arthur Evans, he found various bull motifs, including an image of a man leaping over the horns of a bull, as well as depictions of a labrys carved into the walls.

When ferromagnetic material is placed within a magnetic field, the magnetic dipoles align to the applied field, thus expanding the domain walls of the magnetic domains.

When they encounter an infection site the particles gain a positive charge provoked by the slightly acidic environment at the infection sites, allowing them to bind to the negatively charged bacterial cell walls and release antibiotics at locally high concentration.

When enemies attempted to dig tunnels under walls for mining or entry into the city, the defenders used large bellows ( the type the Chinese commonly used in heating up a blast furnace for smelting cast iron ) to pump smoke into the tunnels in order to suffocate the intruders.

When tobacco is burned, oils from adjoining not yet ignited particles vaporize and condense into the existing cake on the walls of the bowl and shank.

When construction was finished the porous sandstone walls were coated with a mixture of lime, rice glue, casein, and lead, giving the house its familiar color and name.

When victory looked near, Gallienus made the mistake of approaching the city walls too closely and was gravely injured, compelling him to withdraw the campaign.

When the walls were first erected in 1756, they were made of squared wooden timbers, with earth filling the gap.

When the engine is cold, fuel vaporizes less readily and tends to condense on the walls of the intake manifold, starving the cylinders of fuel and making the engine difficult to start ; thus, a richer mixture ( more fuel to air ) is required to start and run the engine until it warms up.

When Gothic flying buttresses were used, aqueducts were sometimes cut into the buttress to divert water over the aisle walls.

When the fleet fired cannonballs, the explosives failed to penetrate Fort Sullivan's unfinished, yet thick palmetto log walls.

When a Mongol contingent entered the entrance of the fortress, the Mongol forces would be slaughtered to the last man, while trapped between 4 walls.

When a phone call informs Caul that " We know that you know ; keep your mouth shut ", he believes his own apartment has been bugged and goes on a frantic search for the listening device, tearing up walls and floorboards and ultimately destroying his apartment to no avail.

When temperatures fall at night, the walls re-radiate the thermal energy back into the night sky.

When erythrocytes undergo shear stress in constricted vessels, they release ATP which causes the vessel walls to relax and dilate so as to promote normal blood flow.

When water that has entered the joints freezes, the ice formed strains the walls of the joints and causes the joints to deepen and widen.

) When Constantinople became the capital of the Eastern Empire, Nicaea did not lose in importance ; for its present walls, which were erected during the last period of the Empire, enclose a much greater space than that ascribed to the place in the time of Strabo.

When the Mexican soldiers breached the north outer walls of the Alamo complex, most of the Texians fell back to the barracks and the chapel, as previously planned.

When Pyrrhus invaded Italy ( 280-278, 275 BCE ), Croton was still a considerable city, with twelve miles of walls, but after the Pyrrhic War, half the city was deserted ( Livy 24. 3 ).

When ionizing radiation strikes the tube, some of the molecules of the fill gas are ionized, either directly by the incident radiation or indirectly by means of secondary electrons produced in the walls of the tube.

When Charlemagne destroyed the walls of Pamplona after a failed attempt to conquest the Muslim Saraqusta, the Vascons Leaders, allies and relatives of Banu Qasi, a muladi family of Muslim leaders, annihilated the rearguard of Franks in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass through an ambush of a coaliated vascon and Muslim force.

When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints.

When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was 15, his parents finally allowed him to attend classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

When finally the two bedraggled men reach their friend's home, Voltaire's fears are once again aroused.

When the Yalta Papers were finally published with great fanfare they had revealed no betrayal by anyone.

When the snobbery that alienates Pip from Joe finally gives way before the deeper and stronger force of love, the reunion is marked by an embarrassed handshake at which Pip exclaims: `` No, don't wipe it off -- for God's sake, give me your blackened hand ''!!

When a sailing date of March, 1845 was finally established, Palfrey made sure that the Negroes would have comfortable quarters in New Orleans and aboard ship.

When it was finally pointed east, he said, `` You should never have come out here alone.

When he finally got the coughing under control, he realized that Pete ( all he gave was his first name ) was still waiting for an answer -- he didn't even seem to wink as he continued to stare.

When the shaken Palmer finally did hit his fourth shot, he overshot the hole by 15 feet.

When Owen was finally rid of him, there was a timid rap at the door.

When he finally did he had to duck his head quickly away as the pitch came in.

When the solution finally came to him, one night while he was in bed, he was so shaken by its simplicity that he could only wonder why it had not occurred to him before.

When it finally sank in, the crowd swarmed onto the field, cheering loudly and chairing Boyle and Spofforth to the pavilion.

When Ajax finally left Troy, Athena hit his ship with a thunderbolt, but Ajax still survived, managing to cling onto a rock.

When Amphitryon finally returned to Thebes, Alcmene told him that he had come the night before and slept with her ; he learned from Tiresias what Zeus had done.

When King Amadeus finally had the bill in his desk, which would extend the 1837 Abolition Act to the Antilles, he was put on notice of a coup financed by Cuban plantationers and industrialists if he signed.

When he finally dies at the end of the novel, the situation report from the frontline states, " All is Quiet on the Western Front ," symbolizing the cheapness of human life in war.

When Beavis finally comes down from his sugar high, he is hanging on a meathook in the farmer's barn, where the old man and a similarly pale Butt-Head seemingly attack him with chainsaws as the episode fades to blood red.

When Deckard, Batty, and Holden finally clash, Batty's inhuman fighting prowess leads Holden to believe he has been duped all along and that Batty is the sixth replicant ; he shoots him.

When the Romans finally conquered Pannonia in 8 AD, the Boii seem not to have opposed them.

When they were finally allowed to return to Battery Park City, some found that their homes had been looted.

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 English finally regained control of New Netherland they forced, as a punishment unique in the history of the British Empire, the English common law upon all the colonists, including the Dutch.

When Mehmed finally entered Constantinople through what is now known as the Topkapi Gate, he immediately rode his horse to the Hagia Sophia which he ordered to be sacked.