Sentence examples for chief event from inspiring English sources

The chief event of Joe's directorship was the negotiation for the Blackhawk Ranch fossil locality.

The chief event of Gregory's directorship was the negotiation for the Blackhawk Ranch fossil locality.

The chief event of his reign, however, was the intermittent war (1356 66) against King Peter of Castile.

Without doubt, the chief event in the history of evolutionary theory was the publication in 1859 of On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin (1809 82).

This event, the chief event of Lucien's life, was fatal to the cause of democracy of which he had been the most eager exponent.

The chief event of the ode is a morning vision of three figures in Classical dress, passing before the poet as if they were ancient drawings on a spinning urn.

A 20th-century bylina, the Tale of Lenin, converted the chief events of the Russian Revolution of 1917 into a formulaic hero tale.

They had also the care of the state archives and of the lists of magistrates and kept records of their own decisions (commentarii) and the chief events (annales).

The triumphal arch was usually decorated with columns and bas-reliefs of the chief events it commemorated and was frequently surmounted by sculpture.

Valéry's main daily duty was to read out the chief events from the newspapers and the Paris Stock Exchange to the director, and he thereby became a well-informed commentator on current affairs.

The chief events of his pontificate included the spread of Christianity in Denmark, the settlement of the dispute over the see of Reims, and the German king Otto I's first success in Italy (951).