Sentence examples for a key crossroad from inspiring English sources

Due to its location on a pass that separates the mountains Mosor and Kozjak, the fortress served as a major source of defense in Dalmatia, especially against the Ottoman advance, and has been a key crossroad between the Mediterranean belt and the Balkan rear.

As the 101st took four bridges around Nijmegen, Winters discovered a German position overlooking a key crossroads dyke.

Grasses regularly sprout in the forum, a tenacious, earthy reminder of Saepinum's origins as a key crossroads amid fertile pasture land.

They also laid claim to Chaghcharan, a key crossroads along the road from Kabul to Herat and a number of provincial capitals in the north and the key city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

Unlikely Partners recounts the story of how Chinese politicians and intellectuals looked beyond their country's borders for economic guidance at a key crossroads in the nation's tumultuous twentieth century.

The Cambodian Army has been reorganized and is battle-tested; last week, it began a counteroffensive in the northwest that had been long delayed and retook a key crossroads town, Svay Chek.

It is a key crossroads northwest of Houston, containing rows of three-story Victorian mansions and a massive Art Deco courthouse.

The Michigan primary will be a key crossroads for Romney, who is in danger of losing his frontrunner status after several recent national polls show him trailing Rick Santorum.

In this Jimmy Stewart classic, the main character, George Bailey, who has lived a good but frustrated life, comes to a key crossroads in his life.

Pro-government forces now have regained control of five southern provinces, the latest of them recaptured Saturday, and on Sunday pushed into Taizz, a key crossroads city about 160 miles south of Sana, the rebel-held capital.

Situated at a key crossroads between Asian suppliers and western European consumers, Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odessa is a primary entry point for illicit drugs.