Sentence examples for a defining event from inspiring English sources

It was seen as a defining event that would finally lead to some sensible gun control.

My father's experience was a a defining event in shaping our family.

I felt that this was a defining event which, good or bad, would have an impact for the next decade.

The mass emigrations, beginning in earnest in the late 18th century and lasting through most of the 19th, are Scotland's diaspora and stand as a defining event in the shaping of the modern nation.

But it was specifically during composition of "The Veil of the Temple" — his 2003 all-night vigil, first performed at the Temple Church in London before a reduced version at the Lincoln Center Festival — that a defining event occurred.

He recalled a huge riverside rally in Portland in the spring of 2008, a raucous affair that many on the campaign pointed to as a defining event that would mark the future president as the leader of a sustained movement.

For Mr. Elop, a former Microsoft executive who made the decision to enter the alliance, and for Nokia, the success or failure of the collaboration will be a defining event.

The hope of the writers is that these narratives will engrave the movement as a defining event in the 20th century, particularly for this generation of Americans, in much the same way that Tom Brokaw and Stephen E. Ambrose did for World War II remembrance.

"We didn't even use the term 'citizen' very much in 1997".Most countries that try to assimilate immigrants, such as France and America, can point to a defining event when their national identity "began"; Britain did not have the same kind of revolution.

In fact, the eventual cost of this cleanup, and the financing decisions made could be a defining event.

Yet, the war remains a defining event in my life.