When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

When Brubeck signed with Fantasy Records, he thought he had a half interest in the company and he worked as a sort of A & R man for it, encouraging the Weiss brothers to sign other contemporary jazz performers, including Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, and Red Norvo.

When animals or people free-run, experiments can be done to see what sort of signals, known as zeitgebers, are effective in entrainment.

When humans manually sort something ( for example, a deck of playing cards ), most use a method that is similar to insertion sort.

When someone speaks of a mishap involving an audible arcing of electricity, the word " zap " is often used ( and has subsequently been expanded and used to describe non-auditory effects generally connoting the same sort of localized but thorough interference or destruction similar to that produced in short-circuit sparking ).

When I heard it 1976, I mean it was a great record ... but I hated it because I knew we ’ d been doing this sort of stuff for years.

When a law was passed in 1816 allowing only malt and hops to be used in the production of beer ( a sort of British Reinheitsgebot ), they were left in a quandary.

When Sibyl commits suicide, Dorian distances himself from the blame by viewing her death as a work of art — a sort of tragic drama.

When first described in 1924, Velociraptor was placed in the family Megalosauridae, as was the case with most carnivorous dinosaurs at the time ( Megalosauridae, like Megalosaurus, functioned as a sort of ' wastebin ' taxon, where many unrelated species were grouped together ).

When any sort of disaster or emergency occurs, it is WHO's stated objective to reduce any consequences it may have on world health and its social and economic implications.

When somebody mentions the word pressure to me, I sort of see something, some kind of confined hot or turbulent material.

When the type metal has sufficiently cooled, the mould is unlocked and a rectangular block approximately 4 centimeters long, called a sort, is extracted.

When there was still no word from England, he summoned Paterson to Sydney in January 1809 to sort out matters.

" When the distance is wide, the attacking opponent requires some sort of preparation.

When the program needed to perform some sort of I / O, it instead loaded a small program into one of these other machines and let it do the work.

Private Eye's Colemanballs column has now expanded to include occasional quotes from sportsmen themselves ( e. g. Frank Bruno's " That's cricket, Harry, you get these sort of things in boxing "), politicians ( John Major's " When your back's against the wall it's time to turn round and fight "), and malapropisms from other public figures.

When Colbert received a Kennedy Center Honor, her fashion sense was referred to with a quotation from Jeanie Basinger in The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers: " glamour is the sort that women attain for themselves by using their intelligence to create a timeless personal style.

When sort keys for a dataset are uniformly distributed numbers, linear interpolation is straightforward to implement and will find an index very near the sought value.

When Norma discovers the script with Betty's name on it, she phones Betty and insinuates what sort of man Joe really is.

When the troops of opposing armies both carried the pike, it often grew in a sort of arms race, getting longer in both shaft and head length to give one side's pikemen an edge in the combat ; the longest pikes could exceed 6 m ( 22 feet ) in length.

When analyzing the reasons behind her difficulty to find work, Witherspoon commented " I think because the character I played was so extreme and sort of shrewish – people thought that was who I was, rather than me going in and creating a part.

When the third incarnation of Madison Square Garden at 50th and Eighth Avenue was torn down in 1968, New York developed a master plan calling for two to three thousand hotel rooms, 25, 000 apartments, of office space, and a new super liner terminal in the neighborhood, which it described as " blocks of antiquated and deteriorating structures of every sort.

When John was appointed, Chevrolet was having financial and organizational troubles, and GM president Ed Cole needed a first-class manager in that position to sort things out – company man or not.

When Kennedy's newly appointed NASA Administrator James E. Webb requested a 30 percent budget increase for his agency, Kennedy supported an acceleration of NASA's large booster program but deferred a decision on the broader issue.

When a country has its own national currency, this involves the issue of some form of standardized currency, which is essentially a form of promissory note: a promise to exchange the note for " money " under certain circumstances.

When it comes time to issue the invitation to come to the table the warning from I Corinthians 11: 27-29 is read which is referred to as " fencing the table.

* " When H. G. Wells Split the Atom: A 1914 Preview of 1945 ", by Freda Kirchwey, in The Nation, posted 4 Sep 2003 ( original 18 Aug 1945 issue ).

When pressed on the issue of Idaho, he also admits that the Bene Tleilax have conditioned their own agenda into him.

When a gift was worth more than 10, 000 Derrik ( Achaemenian gold coin ) the issue was registered in a special office.

When Kemp became Dole's running mate in 1996, they appeared on the cover of the August 19, 1996 issue of Time magazine, but the pair barely edged out a story on the reported discovery of extraterrestrial life on Mars, which was so close to being the cover story that Time inset it on the cover and wrote about how difficult the decision was.

When as a result, Tiso had the Slovak regional government issue a declaration of independence on 14 March 1939, the ensuing crisis in Czech-Slovak relations was used as a pretext to summon the Czecho-Slovak President Emil Hácha to Berlin over his " failure " to keep order in his country.

When under stress, koalas may issue a loud cry, which has been reported as similar to that of a human baby.

When published in the June 1950 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, cover artist Miller contributed one of the more striking Astounding covers of the 1950s, blending an emotional musical performance with cyber technology.

When discussing the issue of church and state separation, Linus also said, " Yeah, it's kind of ironic that in many European countries, there is actually a kind of legal binding between the state and the state religion.

When it came to the issue of slavery in DC and slavery in the United States, he was against its abolition, and said so in his Inaugural Address in 1837: " I believed it a solemn duty fully to make known my sentiments in regard to it < nowiki > ,</ nowiki > and now, when every motive for misrepresentation has passed away, I trust that they will be candidly weighed and understood.

When a system design includes a centrifugal pump, an important issue it its design is matching the head loss-flow characteristic with the pump so that it operates at or close to the point of its maximum efficiency.

When increasing concern within the company over the pricing and availability of fuel during the oil crisis of the 1970s became an issue of contention, smaller engines were considered in the interest of fuel economy.

When this government was replaced by Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud government, the issue again became even more controversial, with Israel's demand for greater clarity and precision eventually expressed in the Wye River Memorandum.

When there are no specific constitutional duties involved, the issue is to be decided through the democratic process.

When the country could not reconcile the issue of slavery and the federal union, the southern Presbyterians split from the original PCUSA, forming the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America in 1861, which became the Presbyterian Church in the United States after the American Civil War.

When contemplating an award of this decoration, the key issue that commanders must take into consideration is the degree to which the enemy caused the injury.

When share warrants are issued, the company must strike out the name of the shareholder from its register of members and state the date of issue of the warrant and the number of shares to which it relates.

When negotiating for the possibility of annexation to the US in late 1836, the Texan government instructed its minister Wharton in Washington that if the boundary were an issue, Texas was willing to settle for a boundary at the watershed between the Nueces River and Rio Grande, and leave out New Mexico.

When the king would issue a call to leidang, the Viking Age equivalent of military conscript service, a Roden district was responsible for raising a number of ships for the leidang navy.

When feature widths were far greater than about 10 micrometres, purity was not the issue that it is today in device manufacturing.

When Roosevelt realized that lowering the tariff would risk severe tensions inside the Republican Party — pitting producers ( manufacturers and farmers ) against merchants and consumers — he stopped talking about the issue.

When time is an issue, some competitions only count a let if a player has over 10 points.