Under such circumstances, it is clearly indicated that a policy should be adopted that will, as soon as possible, make the people want peace and want it badly .
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Under some circumstances it is confined to one caste or class.
— from The Next Step: A Plan for Economic World Federation by Scott Nearing

Under such circumstances, it is customary to provide a temporary supply by printing the needed value on some other stamp, usually one of higher value.
— from What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. (John Nicholas) Luff

If then the progenitors of man inhabiting any district, especially one undergoing some change in its conditions, were divided into two equal bodies, the one half which included all the individuals best adapted by their powers of movement for gaining subsistence, or for defending themselves, would on an average survive in greater numbers, and procreate more offspring than the other and less well endowed half.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

Under such conditions, it is conceivable that extremely economical and good use might be made of all the available primate materials.
— from The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes: A Study of Ideational Behavior by Robert Mearns Yerkes

“The librettist maintains that to take away one phrase, one word, is to render the work unintelligible, so cunningly is it constructed.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

It was reported, however, that a quarrel had broken out between them and the Gerad Adan, their brother-in- law; no pleasant news!—in Africa, under such circumstances, it is customary for friends to detain, and for foes to oppose, the traveller.
— from First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Nobody thinks of daring to cast a look of curiosity into the interior of the carriage; not only would this be useless, so closely is it covered, but such temerity would have to be atoned for by death, whether the object be the wife of [97] the sovereign or any subordinate official.
— from Sketches of Central Asia (1868) Additional chapters on my travels, adventures, and on the ethnology of Central Asia by Ármin Vámbéry

The stream was winding and tortuous, and at no time could we see more than five-and-twenty rods in advance of us, so crooked is its course.
— from Wild Northern Scenes Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by S. H. (Samuel H.) Hammond

If life exists under such conditions it is conceivable that suitable conditions for the support of certain forms of life, animal as well as vegetable, may be found in low-lying valleys and crevices and upon the floors of craters, where certain gases essential to the support of life might be evolved from many small volcanic vents and fumaroles.
— from Astronomy for Young Folks by Isabel Martin Lewis