In Brassed Off, the ravaged Yorkshire mining community is still bound together by the colliery brass band (and some cathartic anti-Thatcher rants), again climaxing on a slightly pyrrhic high.
Labour could and probably should therefore follow the example of the Tories after their defeat in 2005 and opt for a drawn-out leadership contest climaxing at the party conference at the end of September.The new leader will almost certainly be male and in his forties.
His attempts to control the Arab Bedouin were less successful, and Wahhābī incursions from Arabia into Al-Hasa and along the fringes of the desert, climaxing in the sack of the Shīʿite shrine at Karbalāʾ in 1801, added to his difficulties.
On September 25, climaxing a frenetic month, federal regulators seized the country's largest savings and loan, Seattle-based Washington Mutual (WaMu), and brokered its sale to JPMorgan Chase for $1.9 billion.
Bilk made 12 records that became hits, climaxing with his original song "Stranger on the Shore" (1961), in which he was joined by a string orchestra; it rose to number one on music charts in England and the U.S.
And the historians of dogma, climaxing in Adolf von Harnack (1851 1931), used their demonstration of the dependence of ancient Christology upon non-Christian sources for its concepts and terminology to reinforce their claim that Christianity had to get back from the Christ of dogma to the "essence of Christianity" in the teachings of Jesus about the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.
In 1920, five of these were presented, climaxing in The Storming of the Winter Palace, directed by Evreinov, with the help of the directors of the other spectacles.
After the American Civil War the region became a hotbed of racial animosity, climaxing in January 1871 with an attack by 500 Ku Klux Klansmen on the county jail and the lynching of eight black prisoners.
The two weeks before Mardi Gras are filled with parades, both day and night, climaxing on Mardi Gras with the Rex parade.
In his new book, Patrick Cockburn examines the roots and repercussions of a movement that was little known before its stunning blitzkrieg through Iraq in the summer of 2014, climaxing in the capture of the country's second biggest city, Mosul.
Behind Bear's Den: more than two years of gigging, climaxing in a busy summer festival run, promoting Islands.
