Sentence examples for the decisive year from inspiring English sources

The decisive year in the Archidamian War was, on Thucydides' perhaps over-schematic account, 425.

In 1599, perhaps the decisive year in Shakespeare's life, art and politics collided to an extraordinary degree.

One does not have to accept Phillips's claim about the seminal significance of 1775 as the decisive year to appreciate his larger achievement.

The Labour Party chairman, Charles Clarke, one of the few ministers licensed to speak on the issue, has called this "the decisive year".

This was the furthest a senior British minister has gone in revealing government thinking in what is widely seen as the decisive year in determining whether Tony Blair will risk a referendum.

He dropped in "fiscal arithmetic" a few times for variety, but the headline message is clear: this is to be the "decisive year".His calculation is that the old-fashioned virtues of strength and judgment are still more important than beer-buddy likeability.

(That belongs to "The Decisive Years").

Brod's physical deformity is mentioned glancingly in "The Decisive Years" and not at all in "The Years of Insight".

An earlier book, "Kafka: The Decisive Years" (1910-15), was published in 2002 and translated into English in 2005.

The Methodist and Baptist churches advocated abolition of slavery in the United States in the decisive years preceding the foundation of the New England Anti-Slavery Society in Boston in 1832 by William Lloyd Garrison.

Reiner Stach's Kafka: The Decisive Years and Kafka: The Years of Insight Princeton University Presss) are the second and third volumes of a three-volume biography.