But Germany, which now adamantly declares that adherence to the rules of debt repayment must trump all other considerations, can rightly claim that in at least one crucial instance, it was anything but a hypocrite.
Yet that, in one crucial instance, is exactly what Bishop believed.
The movie's rare but crucial instances of violence have a heart-skipping impact achieved through a perfect meshing of staging and editing.
Good photographs capture these crucial instances, symbolic ones, that in real time pass too quickly for the eye to register.
What's more arresting, amusing and in many crucial instances rewarding is the way cheese recurs across Bar Artisanal's menu, dotting and flecking it, like dill or caraway in a wedge of havarti.
I FEAR I must think that the crucial instances which Dr. Bastian mentions are merely cases in which the observer, having a preconceived theory, has preferred an improbable interpretation to an obvious and simple one.
What lies behind it is that companies are starting to attach more value to the time their senior employees have to spend travelling.If an executive fails to arrive in time for a crucial meeting, for instance, this will disrupt the work of a large number of people and perhaps even the outcome of an important deal.
They have a crucial role since, for instance, only medical professionals can determine what alternative treatments are available and whether or not the patient is in a terminal stage of illness.
Letting the high-end tax cuts expire, for instance, is a crucial step in the long process of reducing the federal budget deficit.
During last year's Tour, for instance, at a crucial moment in the Pyrenees, Jan Ullrich veered off the road and into a ditch; Armstrong waited for him to get back on his bike and catch up.
