When Empress Dowager Deng died, Emperor An ( r. 106 – 125 CE ) was convinced by the accusations of the eunuchs Li Run ( 李閏 ) and Jiang Jing ( 江京 ) that Deng and her family had planned to depose him.

When Sun He succeeded Sun Deng as the new crown prince, he was supported by Lu Xun and Zhuge Ke, while his rival Sun Ba was supported by Quan Cong and Bu Zhi and their clans.

When Deng was temporarily recalled to Beijing, from 1973 – 1976, he also recalled Hu ; but, when Deng was purged again, in 1976, Hu was also purged.

When Deng Xiaoping started economic reforms in 1978, his politic looked for like-minded economic advisors and sought out Zhu.

When Cao demanded that Sun send his heir Sun Deng ( 孫登 ) to Luoyang as hostage, Sun refused and formal relations broke down.

When Deng began to groom Jiang Zemin ( a former governor of Shanghai ) to succeed him as paramount leader, Yang resisted Jiang's leadership, and Deng successfully forced Yang to retire in 1992, along with some of his family.

When Lü Meng was 15 or 16, he would often follow Deng Dang in his expeditions against the Shanyue secretly against Deng's wishes.

When Deng Dang told Lü Meng's mother about this, she was furious, but Lü Meng said: " It is difficult to survive in poverty ; if we can prove ourselves through hard work, then wealth would come eventually.

When the Campaign of the North China Plain Pocket broke out in the summer of 1946, he failed to destroyed the communist forces under Marshal Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping and was relieved of his command once more.

When he was stationed on the border, he repelled an attack by Liu Biao's general, Deng Long, who was captured in the battle.

When Deng Xiaoping began his labor reforms in the People's Republic of China in the 1980s, the government iron rice bowl jobs were some of the first to go.

When Gao expressed his thoughts to Li Xiannian, Chen Yun and Deng Xiaoping, they were both concerned that his attempts were a clear threat to Party unity.

When Empress Dowager Deng Sui heard about Ban Zhao's death at advanced age, she dressed all in white to mourn her.

When Jiang finally suffered a crushing defeat from Deng Ai, Zhuge memorialized the emperor that Jiang should be stripped off from military command and replaced by Yan Yu, who, although a personal friend of the notorious Huang Hao, was said to be a capable general.

When the Wei general, Deng Ai suddenly appeared in Jiangyou ( 江由 ) though a treacherous trail, the local Grand Administrator was shocked and subsequently surrendered to him, providing the former a foothold.

When Deng tailed Zhuge to Minzhu, he gave a last chance to the latter and promised Zhuge that he would recommend him to be the " King of Langye.

When Lai was age 18, Mao Zedong died and businesses were allowed to function again under Deng Xiaoping.

When Thatcher, Cradock and Youde left the Great Hall after their meeting with Deng, she accidentally slipped on the steps outside.

When Sun Jian was recruiting volunteers to fight the Yellow Turban rebels, Cheng Pu joined him, and participated in the subjugation of the cities of Wan and Deng.

When Sun Deng had his secretary Hu Zong ( 胡綜 ) write a commentary about his advisors in 229, Hu wrote that Zhuge was the most intelligent and skillful of his generation.

When Eastern Wu and Shu Han re-established their alliance against Cao Wei, Deng Zhi was sent by Zhuge Liang as envoy, and one of his mission was to ask the release and the return of Zhang Yi.

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 his head came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.

When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.

When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.

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 the first sprinkling of green appears I remove the board.

When solving an equation that involves division as well as other steps, do all the division steps first to reduce those parts of the equation to their numerical value.

When you first acquire a pool, we earnestly recommend -- for your own mental health -- a good long chat with your insurance agent.

When these groups were first formed many prominent and accomplished decorators could not have had the advantage of school training since interior design courses were rare and undeveloped during their youth.

When it comes to rate of early growth, the Indian python leads with a figure of about 3 feet 6 inches per year for the first two years, more or less.

When 1 ml of conjugate was passed through a column ( Af ), the first and second milliliter fractions collected were the most specific and gave no nonspecific staining in some experiments, and very little in others.

When we examine what each master says was his first collage we see that much the same thing happens in each.

When the chance came, they first eliminated cold cereal once a week, then gradually converted to hot fresh-ground cereal every day.

When Felix first opened the door on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as night.

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 husband drops the case and returns to his wife, both seem sorry they brought the matter up in the first place.

When he at last did go to his room, he couldn't sleep and instead paced up and down before his little image of Acala, thinking first of Charlotte's tale of the man at Ryusenji, then of his biwa and the invisible Pacific waters.

When first informed he disbelieved the crow and turned all crows black ( where they were previously white ) as a punishment for spreading untruths.

When they were first occupied, the present-day islands including Milos with its important obsidian production were probably still connected to the mainland.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).