Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a research institute in Washington, called the presidential election "a fundamental turning point".
But Middle Patent, and other cemeteries large and small in Westchester County, are at a fundamental turning point, economically, physically and legally.
In world history a fundamental turning point was the so-called industrial revolution that began in the United Kingdom in the late eighteenth century and that has expanded since that time to Europe, North America, Japan, East Asia and more recently to China and India.
I am one of those who like to believe that the idea of 1989 as some fundamental turning point in human history is absurd: the world is just as dangerous as it has always been.
"My prediction is that unless oil prices go down below $60 a barrel, you are now at a fundamental turning point at which you will see a new political coalition emerge," Mr. Gingrich said in an interview.
I've had many dear friends struggle with alcohol and other addictions in their lives (some with great success; others not so much) and I've come to understand what a fundamental turning point it is to stop drinking, and then remain sober.
The book deftly explains how this case marked a fundamental turning point in American relations with Pakistan by showing that country's intelligence service the extent to which the C.I.A. was operating inside its borders without its permission or even its knowledge.
But, with the financial crisis raging and the National Intelligence Council recently conjuring a 2025 scenario called "A World Without the West," there is the real, if fainter, prospect of a more fundamental turning: of an American decline that would give India's rise its greatest significance.
Ukrainian politicians say a fundamental turning point has been reached in the conflict.
