Sentence examples for defining episodes from inspiring English sources

Late adolescence sees more than its fair share of defining episodes.

Ethno-nationalists in Europe look to epic clashes with Arab armies as defining episodes in their own national stories.

First of a three-part film series presented by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in partnership with The Arab Film Festival on the 70th anniversary of Al-Nakba of 1948, one of the Middle East's most defining episodes.

Second of a three-part film series presented by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in partnership with The Arab Film Festival on the 70th anniversary of Al-Nakba of 1948, one of the Middle East's most defining episodes.

Written above the door is a Shiite religious inscription, "Ya Hussein," which invokes the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson in Karbala, Iraq, one of the defining episodes of Shiite history.

The fall of Lehman Brothers, the 158-year-old firm bankrupted by its hubris and perilous mortgage bets, was one of the defining episodes of the 2008 financial crisis.

Solzhenitsyn was a giant among the heroic dissidents in the Soviet Union, and his saga was a defining episode in the decline of the Communist tyranny.

"A Bright Shining Lie" is about the Vietnam War, which in many ways was the defining episode of Mr. Sheehan's life.

But Germans are no longer so ready to be put on the moral defensive or to view the Nazi era as the defining episode of their past.

The second world war shaped the rest of the 20th century across the globe, while the Holocaust has come to be seen in many ways as the defining episode of that grim century.

If it becomes clear that the United States was behind this action – it has not yet admitted responsibility – this incident will go down in history as the defining episode of US-Latin America relations during the Obama administration.