Sentence examples for historic juncture from inspiring English sources

Nine years later, Mr Comey finds his old office at another historic juncture.

"Placed in this historic juncture, I will pay with my life the loyalty of the people".

It was a historic juncture that, even by England's dismal summer standards, was perfectly poised in the doldrums.

After six months of stalemate and failed coalition talks following the election, Spain finds itself at a historic juncture before the rerun on 26 June.

Today, he characterizes the 2005 Presidential election as "a historic juncture" and says, "It was an acknowledged fact that the election was free and fair, a true representation of whom the voters wanted to be President".

And as maps of Africa were redrawn by forces of national and tribal self-determination, he became military governor of the Ibo homeland, one of three tribal regions, at a historic juncture.

While some did not endure, such as the 1857 "Dred Scott" ruling (see Scott v. Sandford below), all reflect the mood of the court and dilemmas facing the country at historic junctures.

Benny Peled, who commanded the Israeli Air Force at two historic junctures -- the Middle East war of 1973 and the rescue of Israeli hostages in Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976 -- died on Saturday in Israel.

Twice before, America has ventured this moral precipice and twice before, at similar historic junctures two centuries in a row, it has plummeted over the edge into overt racism, (sexism, too), and repression.

But we should not lose sight of the larger reality that this region stands at an historic economic juncture.

At this historic health care juncture, federal and state governments must explicitly recognize and meet their increasingly urgent responsibility to stop smoking.