Sentence examples for a profound turn from inspiring English sources

It was a profound turn even from 1940, when Franklin D. Roosevelt won a third term pledging not to plunge the United States into war.

The Meiji period, however, soon involved a profound turn away from traditional patterns and toward more distinctively Western ones.

Suffice it to say that the concern for language so evident in Confucian writings reflected both a profound turn away from what they considered to be the empty talk of Buddhists, especially Zen Buddhists, and toward a concern for defining the conceptual bases for a well-ordered society.

"At the time, I thought of myself as an amateur, and to be invited was a profound turning point for me," Iyer said.

Michael McFaul, who was US ambassador to Russia until last month, said: "This is not just an episodic glitch in US-Russian relations, this is a profound turning point.

If accepted by Russia, the American proposal represents a profound turning point from offensive to defensive strategies by the world's two largest nuclear powers, one with the potential to reignite an arms race and alienate China, whose small nuclear arsenal would loose its deterrent credibility.

The image was a great benefit to the campaign but it was also a profound turning point in Fairey's work.

Many forecast an equally profound turn in the Middle East, enabling Israel's right-wing government to continue to resist pressure to freeze the expansion of settlements in the West Bank.

Teen movies like "American Pie," "Little Darlings," and "Sex Drive" center on the loss of virginity as a pivotal, profound turning point.

And the fighting took a profound new turn as the United States committed itself more than ever to a land war.

They followed this by "approach[ing] the world from the perspective of character, using Kevin Flynn as an organizing principle, and focus on the emotional relationship from father and son and their reconciliation, which brings profound turns in their respective individual lives".