Quantifying the effect is impossible, but it's real, and it was crystallized when the season went downhill.
The cancellation made clear that the White House decided it was not, a calculation crystallized when American officials learned of Russia's asylum decision in Mr. Snowden's case at the same time the news media did.
The idea for the Foldscope crystallized when Prakash was in Thailand, in 2011.
But impressions of a cooler relationship between the current leaders crystallized when Brown first visited Obama at the White House in March.
The idea crystallized when she visited an exhibition of work by one of her patients, Nanci Hersh of Middletown, who is a breast cancer survivor.
Here is a 48-year-old Democrat whose political sensibilities crystallized when he was protesting the Vietnam War as a student at the University of Wisconsin.
The plan crystallized when Carpenter shut out Houston, 8-0, on Wednesday, giving the Cardinals the wild card when the Braves lost to the Phillies.
The X-ray diffraction (XRD) study reveals that, the film becomes crystallized when the annealing temperature is above 550 °C.
The mission crystallized when Professor Ed Felten tapped them to help with his testimony in one of the highest-profile court cases of the decade: the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft.
Professor Roach said his desire to find a place for performance studies, and particularly dance, at Yale crystallized when he met Ms. Coates, then an undergraduate in her early 30s and an established dancer.
His decision to leave college crystallized when he entered a new course and discovered that the businessman-professor was one of his clients "He gave me a rather strange look," he recalls.
