Sentence examples for epoch-making event from inspiring English sources

This judgment has certainly been an epoch-making event.

"Now, we are witnessing the epoch-making event indeed," Mr. Sargsyan said.

Mr. Park disputed, however, the words of a diplomatic source quoted by Reuters, who was said to have described the changes in North Korea as "an epoch-making event".

That December, Mr. Conan Doyle used two of their photos to illustrate an article in The Strand magazine, "Fairies Photographed: An Epoch-Making Event Described by A. Conan Doyle".

The end of the local separatist movements of the Warring States period by Qinshihuang was an epoch-making event, as it established the unified multi-ethnic structure that has defined mainstream Chinese history.

The Guardian's Richard Gott stated that the show was "a great and epoch-making event in British social history", although he added that "most of the music ... was indifferent".

Several epoch-making events were going on in the San Francisco area in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, and at the centre of them all, linking them together – no surprises here – was Stewart Brand.

In smaller communities, however, especially in Asia Minor, analogous local departures were used (legendary or historical foundation dates or other epoch-making events), with confusing results for latter-day chronologists.

But perhaps a more exact definition would be "the compressed century," for never has a period of 100 years seen so many world wars, so many scientific and technological advances, so many revolutions, so many epoch-making events piled almost one on top of the other.

From D W Griffiths's endorsement of Ku Klux Klan racism in Birth of a Nation a century ago, through the escapist Thirties, the McCarthy witch-hunts and the timidly belated response to epoch-making events such as the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement, it by and large keeps schtum, plays safe and cheerleads for the status quo.

The aircraft had been aimed, it seems, at the heart of Washington.For Americans, these terrible events are epoch-making, changing the landscape of geopolitics as indelibly as they have defaced the skyline of Manhattan.