Sentence examples for culmination if from inspiring English sources

But, as George Packer wrote in a piece on Holbrooke for The New Yorker last year, it was only part of a long, complicated, and fascinating career, which was reaching a sort of culmination, if not a climax, in his diplomacy in Afghanistan.

And Hubbert noted "variations of this assumed maximum rate will advance or retard the date of the culmination". If you plug in the actual production rates instead of the much lower rates he assumed, his estimated global peak would have been moved far back, likely into the 1980's.

The back-to-school shopping season is nearing its culmination, but if this month's retail offerings are any indication, 2006 was more back-to-college than anything else.

It's the culmination of months, if not years of training.

The exhibition makes it seem as if the culmination of the American-Jewish experience was an amorphous cultural Judaism.

In fact, Mr. Frey's embellishments and fabrications in many ways represent the logical if absurd culmination of several trends that have been percolating away for years.

The whole months leading up to it, even in England, were really tough and Brisbane was the culmination, a breaking point if you like.

While non-representational art has been around since the stone age, the work here typifies an unprecedented upsurge of abstract art that was often viewed by its practitioners as the culmination of several decades, if not centuries, of aesthetic progress.

Rather than seeing him as a cult-worthy personality who represents something wholly new in Catholicism, it is better to understand Francis, even in his stylistic deviations, as the culmination of a slow, if jerky, recovery on the part of the Church from its self-defeating rejection of modernity.

The culmination of this process, if not curtailed by successful treatment, is the emergence of a robust or weed-like quasispecies of cell that migrates, colonizes and hijacks other tissue territories with resultant demise of the host.

Thursday night represented the biggest step of the comeback, if not the culmination.