Zibakalam made clear that in his view the political understanding reached in Lausanne was a defining turning point in the history of the Islamic republic.
And so his assassination is a defining turning point, whatever term you want to use, because it created a different kind of direction for Israel.
I'm glad my children and grandchildren are growing up in the Age of Obama -- the age that marks the defining turning point in American history.
Will Smith is "too expensive" to reprise his career-defining turn in the forthcoming sequel to sci-fi blockbuster Independence Day, according to the project's director, Roland Emmerich.
Was Foley's stunning 28-point performance against England a flash in the pan, a good player merely having an evening where everything went his way, or was it something far more significant like, say, Daniel Carter's astonishing career-defining turn against the British and Irish Lions in 2005?
Where Queer As Folk focused on the hedonistic exploits of twentysomethings on Manchester's Canal Street, its not-quite-sequel Cucumber explores what happens when the party's over, as curmudgeonly fortysomething Henry (a career-defining turn from Vincent Franklin) undergoes a spectacular midlife crisis.
It simply happens that the polynomials so defined turn out to satisfy a special case of Legendre's differential equation.
Our model for deriving the characteristics of a defined turn as a function of speed in equivalent-sized predators and prey predicted that single turns initiated by the prey lead to one of primarily two phenomena: Either the predator cuts the corner, reducing the predator-prey distance benefitting the predator, or it overshoots the corner, increasing the predator-prey distance benefitting the prey.
Like many life-defining turns, Mr. Bamford's decision in the late '70s to take an interest in the National Security Agency was all but accidental.
Donna L. Zerwitz, a spokeswoman for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private group that defines turning points in the business cycle, said it had not changed the dates of the recession, from March 2001 to November 2001.
Alongside her season-defining turns at Miu Miu and for the menswear arm of her company – whose profits soared by 44.9 per cent – it was no wonder she was awarded the first International Designer Of The Year award by the British Fashion Council.
