Sentence examples for a defining act of from inspiring English sources

The Act of Union is the foundational event of modern Scotland, and not just for nationalists – although they see 1707 as a defining act of grand historic treachery and corruption.

His suicide last week, at age 46, will unfortunately be read as a defining act of imagination in a career that is always being called dark, ironic and, above all, postmodern, the final statement of a splintering consciousness.

"Leaving home at 15 is a defining act," he writes of Mahler in the new book.

Casting a ballot remains the defining act of American citizenship.

For example, there are hints that, for better or for worse, the assault by Dunbar -- whom Alice knew to be alcoholic, insecure and, at a time when her own commitment seemed to waver, desperate to bind her to him -- might not have been the defining act of a failed relationship, as Alexander presents it.

It was during this campaign that the business lobby succeeded in redefining American citizens as "taxpayers," a practice that politicians have followed ever since, as if the defining act of citizenship were not casting a ballot but filing a return.

But the author persuades us that Tsafendas's mere existence constituted a kind of anti-apartheid, and that in the defining act of his life the power of madness had... shown itself equal to the madness of power.

Reciting or singing from it is the defining act of the Sikh worship.

The measuring of time may be the defining act of civilization.

Gertrude's single defining act of defiance towards her family was to fall for Nemerov while he was working as a window dresser at Russeks.

Why did we go to war? — but we are losing sight of what happens on the ground in the defining act of invasion.