When Cleisthenes divided the ancient Athenians into new demes for voting, he consulted the Oracle of Delphi about what heroes he should name each division after.

When the vote was taken, enough of the majority refrained from voting to produce a tie and give Calhoun his longed-for " vengeance.

When the original 15 year term was over, a plebiscite was held in the territory on 13 January 1935: 90. 8 % of those voting favored rejoining Germany.

When nobody has a majority, the House of Representatives, voting by states and with the same quorum requirements as under the original procedure, chooses a President.

When voters went to the voting booths, Anderson was at his peak.

When the reluctance within the PSS to advocate on behalf of married women became clear, Pankhurst and her husband helped organise another new group dedicated to voting rights for all women – married and unmarried.

When the war ended, he also opposed the post-war constitutional amendments ( 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments upon ratification ) that banned many southerners from voting, granted voting rights to males of all races, and abolished slavery.

When voting took place to decide the county seat, Waukesha beat out Pewaukee by two votes.

When the community was voting on names for the town, the name Sauk Centre was suggested by Alexander Moore.

When bullying citizens into voting for him failed, he simply rigged the votes in his favor.

When inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007, he was a first ballot inductee with the third-highest voting percentage ( 98. 53 %) in Hall of Fame history, behind Tom Seaver ( 98. 84 %) and Nolan Ryan ( 98. 79 %).

When used in political or economic contexts, meeting systems are very often associated with a voting system.

When the constitution went before the primary assemblies, most electors held aloof, voting for and voting against it.

When the General Election came his unpopularity and that of the Conservatives in general, a massive tactical voting campaign occurred in the constituency and the Liberal Democrats won the seat.

When the Estates-General convened in Versailles on 5 May 1789, however, it became clear that the double representation was something of a sham: voting was to occur " by orders ", which meant that the collective vote of the 578 representatives of the Third Estate would be weighed the same as that of each of the other Estates.

When he restructured the UGG's capital, Brownlee included a rider that non-farmers who held shares at the time the new structure came into effect could hold voting shares.

When no candidate receives a majority in the first round of voting, a two-round system or ranked voting system can be used to choose a winner.

When Gaius proposed that all Latins should have equal voting rights, the Senate protested, but approved of Drusus ' measure that no Latin would ever be beaten with rods.

" When asked who he was voting for in the 2008 election, he wrote: " If the polls in my home state are close: Obama ( McCain is simply too incompetent these days to be president ).

When voting took place to decide the county seat for Waukesha County, Waukesha beat out Pewaukee by two votes.

When Lucas ran into him at the voting polls he accused Benton of being delinquent in paying his taxes and thus should not be allowed to vote.

When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.

When he saw the expression in her eyes, he knew he couldn't send them on.

When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

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 I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.

Joyce went on, `` When we'd finished, Lou -- Mr. Thor -- asked me to stay a little longer.

When we opened the door again for business and switched on the lights she said:

When he sank on his knees, they had allowed him to char without administering the stroke of mercy.

When he got closer to the tree, Matsuo noted the wild look on his face.

When he rolled on the left side, propping on his left elbow, Matsuo seized his hair and pulled him back over.

When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.

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

When you pass a church on an Irish bus, all the hands flurry in the sign of the cross.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When combined with the metaphysical notion that pure forms of this universe are best appreciated when least embodied in a material substratum, it becomes clear that while earth will be dross on a scale of material-formal ratios, celestial bodies will be of a subtle, quickened, ethereal existence, in whose embodiment pure form will be the dominant component and matter will be absent or remain subsidiary.

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

Besides doing a single song, `` When The Sun Comes Out '', they worked on the ambitious American-Negro Suite, for voices and piano, as well as songs for films.

When I returned to make my report, the Hetman did not remember having sent me on the secret mission.

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 the young biologist, Dr. Ballard, began to show interest in our daughter Elizabeth, this induced a corresponding interest, on our part, in him.

When he turns briefly to literary style, in the Third Book, he again looks to the effect on the audience.