When erosion threatened the foundation of their home in Harbert, Paula Sandburg planted grapevines and arranged the snow fences which helped hold the sands away.

When this heresy-decree, to be made effective, was forwarded to other congregations for approval, the friends of liberal thought, under the leadership of the Tibbonites, issued a counter-ban, and the conflict threatened to assume a serious character, as blind party zeal ( this time on the liberal side ) did not shrink from asking the civil powers to intervene.

When Democratic-Republicans in some states refused to enforce federal laws, and even threatened to rebel, Federalists threatened to send the army to force them to capitulate.

When threatened, it will crouch and freeze, relying on camouflage to stay undetected, but will flush into low flight if closely disturbed.

When the toads are threatened, their glands secrete a milky-white fluid known as bufotoxin.

When the production of Richard Kelly's debut film, Donnie Darko, was threatened, Barrymore stepped forward with financing from Flower Films and took the small role of Karen Pomeroy, the title character's English teacher.

When they warned him that they would ask Charles Gounod instead and then threatened to engage Richard Wagner's services, Verdi began to show considerable interest, and agreements were signed in June 1870.

When Evans began to question her religious faith, her father threatened to throw her out, although that did not happen.

When the Brunswick Manifesto of July 1792 once more threatened the French population with Austrian ( Imperial ) and Prussian attacks, Louis XVI was suspected of treason and taken along with his family from the Tuileries Palace in August 1792 by insurgents supported by a new revolutionary Paris Commune.

When France was negotiating with the Netherlands about purchasing Luxembourg in 1867, the Prussian Kingdom threatened the French government with war.

When, however, the Treaty of San Stefano threatened a Russian hegemony in the Near East, Andrássy concurred with the German and British courts that the final adjustment of matters must be submitted to a European congress.

When the Germans threatened to overrun Paris in 1940, where she was then living, he arranged her escape to England.

When Louis threatened invasion, the third great civil war of his reign broke out.

When threatened, the Ostrich will either hide itself by lying flat against the ground, or will run away.

When rebel gunboats threatened to dash upriver from Argentina to bombard the capital into submission, Stroessner's forces battled furiously and knocked them out of commission.

When the siege had started, Saladin was unwilling to promise terms of quarter to the Frankish inhabitants of Jerusalem until Balian of Ibelin threatened to kill every Muslim hostage, estimated at 5000, and to destroy Islam's holy shrines of the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque if quarter was not given.

When confronted with the evidence that Solomon was a free man, and told that he had a wife and children, Epps cursed the man ( unknown to him ) who had helped Solomon and threatened to kill him if he discovered his identity.

When Thompson climbed back on board, Johnson drew a knife and threatened Thompson's girlfriend, who was also on board.

When Goldstein was threatened with court-martial for refusing to treat non-Jewish soldiers in the Israeli Defence Force, he declared: " I am not willing to treat any non-Jew.

When threatened, however, they can reach up to and maintain that speed for up to 90 seconds.

When threatened by Xena he tells her, " I know what I'm fated to do with my life ".

When the king was passing by the oasis, the residents killed his son, and the Yemenite ruler threatened to exterminate the people and cut down the palms.

When Gregory was hard pressed by Henry IV, Robert Guiscard left him to his fate, and only intervened when he himself was threatened with German arms.

When viewers realized that Willow was falling in love with Tara, Whedon remembered that some threatened to boycott the show, complaining " You made Willow a fag ", to which he responded, " Bye.

When Dutch elm disease spread away from the Atlantic coast, control focused on controlling the bark beetle by means of such insecticides as DDT and dieldrin, which were sprayed heavily across all parts of elm trees, usually twice a year in the spring and again at a lower concentration in the summer.

Bombardier beetles are ground beetles ( Carabidae ) in the tribes Brachinini, Paussini, Ozaenini, or Metriini — more than 500 species altogether — which are most notable for the defense mechanism that gives them their name: When disturbed, the beetle ejects a noxious chemical spray in a rapid burst of pulses from special glands in its abdomen.

When a bombardier beetle is threatened by a predator or an offensive invader of any kind, at the appropriate point of approach, the bombardier beetle swings its tail end around, and hot, noxious fluid heated to is explosively released from twin combustion tubes into the face of the enemy.

When the prison's doctor inspected the prisoners, he was surprised to find Latreille scrutinising a beetle on the dungeon floor.

When a dung beetle finds this dung, it eats it and follows the trail ; however, if the trail branches, or it encounters a point along the trail, it picks at random which branch to follow, thereby giving the player anywhere from a 50 % to 66⅔ % chance of losing the pursuer.

When he contracts the plague, he is the first to receive Dr. Castel's anti-plague serum.

When the left ventricle contracts to force blood into the aorta, the aorta expands.

When the temperature decreases again, the rock contracts, causing pieces of the rock to break off.

When talking about professional wrestling, there are two levels: the " in-show " happenings that are presented through the shows, and happenings which are outside the scope of performance ( in other words, are real life ) but have implications on the performance, such as performer contracts, legitimate injuries, etc.

When using contracts, a supplier should not try to verify that the contract conditions are satisfied ; the general idea is that code should " fail hard ", with contract verification being the safety net.

When the diaphragm contracts, the thoracic cavity is expanded, reducing intra-thoracic pressure and drawing air into the lungs.

When a market is rising, holders of contracts for future delivery of a commodity see the value of their contract increase.

When this muscle contracts, the cord is shortened and the testicle is moved closer up toward the body, which provides slightly more warmth to maintain optimal testicular temperature.

When this muscle contracts, it reduces the size of the pupil.

When agreeing to contracts, he insisted on striking the standard clause prescribing that both parties must settle disputes in a reasonable manner, saying that he could never promise to be reasonable.

When the left ventricle ( LV ) contracts, it forces blood through the valve to the aorta and then to the rest of the body.

Because the two main singers in Rockpile had recording contracts with different record labels and managers, albums were always credited to either Lowe or Edmunds, so there is only one official Rockpile album, which was not released until the waning days of the collaboration: 1980's Seconds of Pleasure, featuring the Lowe songs " When I Write The Book " and " Heart ".

When pronator quadratus contracts, it pulls the lateral side of the radius towards the ulna, thus pronating the hand.

When dealing with commission payments on contracts dealing with large amounts of money ( such as Oil, Gas, Steel, Iron, Gold, MTN's, VG's, T-Strips, and other instruments ), most banks in the United States are very wary of handling such large amounts of money.

When the Japanese invasion threat eased, the PRA stopped putting out new contracts.

When the harvest-time came, and a sharp increase in demand for the use of the olive presses outstripped supply, he sold his future use contracts of the olive presses at a rate of his choosing, and made a large quantity of money.

When Apple initially released the iPhone on June 29, 2007, it was sold exclusively with AT & T ( formerly Cingular ) contracts in the United States.

When 2 Live Crew's contracts with Luke Records ended in 1991, the group's producer ( and Luke Records ' in-house producer for the entire label ) Mr. Mixx left the group and returned to California.

When possible, the AFL forced industrial unions to break up into craft unions, dividing their memberships into exclusive groups with individual contracts.

When he took office there were twelve teams in the NFL playing a twelve game schedule to frequently half-empty stadiums, and only a few teams had television contracts.

When agents are risk-averse, however, such contracts are generally only second-best because incentivization precludes full insurance.

When a credit event occurs on a major company on which a lot of CDS contracts are written, an auction ( also known as a credit-fixing event ) may be held to facilitate settlement of a large number of contracts at once, at a fixed cash settlement price.

When serious questions about water department contracts came to light in late 2005 Judge Feikens ended Kilpatrick ’ s special administratorship in his capacity as Mayor.