Sentence examples for at its hour from inspiring English sources

Kusturica is a walking morass of contradictions: a Sarajevan "Muslim" whom many Bosnians accuse of abandoning his city at its hour of greatest need to side with the Serbs.

Ireland by the brutality of British rule; Britain by the neutrality of Ireland at its hour of greatest need in World War II.

As Ms. Proffitt, 44, observed, "The modular house has advantages: 120 workers will build your house in five days in a factory," and it arrives "at its appointed hour, or there will be penalties".

"I watched it at its darkest hour," recalled Mr. Berson, who spent two days writing a legal brief while gunshots erupted outside his window.

The bomber detonated a belt of explosives, the police said, striking the cafe at its busiest hour, when it was bustling with young men sipping tea and smoking cigarettes.

This is not intercollegiate athletics at its finest hour.

Afterward, Bush was criticized for the decision to end the ground war at its hundredth hour.

So maybe here's the tie: both maps are pictures of New York City at its darkest hour with its back to the wall, digging in its heels.

"American democracy did not rise like the sun at its natural hour in history," Wilentz wryly observes, dismissing the notion that democracy arrived, fully formed, in 1776 or 1787.

Incidentally, and perhaps even inadvertently and therefore all the more movingly—"Topsy-Turvy" is one of the greatest tributes ever paid to British civilization at its meridian hour.

Incidentally, and perhaps even inadvertently — and therefore all the more movingly — "Topsy-Turvy" is one of the greatest tributes ever paid to British civilization at its meridian hour.