The phrase "a defining event that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant occurrence that shapes or influences a situation or individual.
Example: "The signing of the peace treaty was a defining event that changed the course of the nation's history."
Alternatives: "a pivotal moment that" or "a crucial incident that".
Murdoch's sale of TV Guide is a defining event that corrects an overpayment of at least a billion when he bought it from Walter Annenberg, who then bid for a lot of great contemporary art, including Picasso's "Au Lapin Agile".
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.
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In this process, mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilisation or MOMP represents the defining event that irrevocably commits a cell to die.
Whatever you call it, it's history: loaded evidence of a time, a place and an era-defining event that happened miles away from big-deal Manhattan.
Hafez al-Assad was the last of a small club of leaders who commanded troops in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war -- the defining event that redrew the map of the Middle East -- and who were forever haunted by its consequences.
Mr. Crocker cast the Iraqi government's initiative in Basra and Baghdad as "a defining event," and said that it represented "the state asserting itself against those who would attack the state".
If you are in Madrid this weekend you will certainly become familiar with a defining event in Spanish history, that — if you live outside of Spain — you've probably overlooked before: the 1808 popular Spanish uprising against Napoleon Bonaparte's occupying forces.
Mr. Bloomberg, 69, is of a generation for which the Vietnam War was a defining event, so it is not surprising that he would use it as a historical reference point.
"That [discovery] was a defining event for the pharmaceutical industry, but we don't have an equivalent for that in environmental health," he says.
