A critical turning point comes when the King decides not to give money to a man who has committed theft but instead to cut off his head and also to carry out this punishment in a particularly cruel and humiliating manner, parading him in public to the sound of drums as he is taken to the execution ground outside the city.

The Soviets increasingly were able to challenge the Luftwaffe, and while the Luftwaffe maintained a qualitative edge over the Red Air Force for much of the war, the increasing numbers and efficacy of the Soviet Air Force were critical to the Red Army's efforts at turning back and eventually annihilating the Wehrmacht.

Known under the term critical geography this signalled another turning point in the discipline.

The tour marked a turning point in Nicks ' career: although she had achieved significant critical acclaim, drugs were taking a toll on her performing, affecting her vocals and changing her on-stage persona.

As it happened, the Battle of Midway, the critical naval battle considered to be the turning point of the war in the Pacific, indeed did occur six months after Pearl Harbor ( Midway ended on June 7, exactly 6 months later ).

Some historians, such as Richard Southern, have seen the conquest as a critical turning point in history.

The taking of Ponce by American troops " was a critical turning point in the Puerto Rican campaign.

His release on 2 May following the so-called Kilmainham Treaty marked a critical turning point in the development of Parnell ’ s leadership when he returned to the parameters of parliamentary and constitutional politics, and resulted in the loss of support of Devoy's American-Irish.

As the fluid expands through the turbine stages, its thermodynamic state drops below the critical point as it does work turning the turbine which turns electrical generator from which power is ultimately extracted.

John Ralston Saul expressed the view in The Unconscious Civilization that in contemporary developed nations many people have acquiesced in turning over their sense of right and wrong, their critical conscience, to technical experts ; willingly restricting their moral freedom of choice to limited consumer actions ruled by the ideology of the free market, while citizen participation in public affairs is limited to the isolated act of voting and private-interest lobbying turns even elected representatives against the public interest.

In its 2010 issue on critical moments in popular music, Spin cited D ' Angelo's Voodoo and its success as a turning point for neo soul, stating " D ' Angelo's pastiche of funk, carnal ache, and high-minded, Afrocentric rhetoric stands as neo-soul's crowning achievement.

The Hoop Conjecture describes an imploding star turning into a black hole when the critical circumference of the designed hoop can be placed around it and set into rotation.

At low speed ( e. g. parking ) the rear wheels turn opposite of the front wheels, reducing the turning radius by up to twenty-five percent, sometimes critical for large trucks or tractors and vehicles with trailers, while at higher speeds both front and rear wheels turn alike ( electronically controlled ), so that the vehicle may change position with less yaw, enhancing straight-line stability.

Although Shinran was critical of the motivations that ultimately lead to the exile, and the disruption of Hōnen's practice community, the exile itself proved to be a critical turning point in Shinran's religious life.

We see war veterans – some highly critical of the old ways that led them to a failed war, others longing for the old days of military discipline and turning into inflexible nationalists hailing the virtues of their rising leader, Adolf Hitler.

Good visibility in both directions is critical, because a switcher may be running in either direction ; turning the locomotive is time-consuming.

Buchanan later wrote a critical book about the military campaign and his own part in turning it around, The Tragedy of Mesopotamia ( 1938 ).

The so-called Kilmainham Treaty, a truce not dissimilar to truces to follow, marked a critical turning point in Parnell ’ s leadership, though it resulted in losing the support of Devoy ’ s American-Irish.

He assigned Hardee to command his now critical right flank, turning over the left flank to Carter Stevenson.

2005 may be viewed as a critical turning point though.

Many on the left are still very critical of the leadership of CHP especially Deniz Baykal, who they complain is stifling the party of young blood thus turning away the young who turn either to apathy or even to vote for AK Party.

In Ancient Greek philosophy and astrology, the climacterics ( Latin, annus climactericus, from Greek ) were certain purportedly critical years in a person's life, marking turning points.

This victory, and the maintenance of Silla's independence, is generally regarded as a critical turning point in Korean history.

Experts said that this drop brought the level to within twenty-seven centimeters of the critical point where flora and fauna would be endangered.

The boiling point increases with increased pressure up to the critical point, where the gas and liquid properties become identical.

The boiling point cannot be increased beyond the critical point.

Shortly after, in 1869, Irish chemist Thomas Andrews studied the phase transition from a liquid to a gas and coined the term critical point to describe the instant at which a gas and a liquid were indistinguishable as phases, and Dutch physicist Johannes van der Waals supplied the theoretical framework which allowed the prediction of critical behavior based on measurements at much higher temperatures.

Love's song lyrics are predominantly told from a female's point of view, and her earlier work, particularly on Hole's first two albums, was noted for being highly aggressive and critical toward cultural definitions of women.

The historian Tacitus suggests that Claudius's ongoing term as Censor may have prevented him from noticing the affair before it reached such a critical point.

* Critical points of the elements ( data page ) — critical point

Core concepts are: ( 1 ) That critical social theory should be directed at the totality of society in its historical specificity ( i. e. how it came to be configured at a specific point in time ), and ( 2 ) That critical theory should improve understanding of society by integrating all the major social sciences, including geography, economics, sociology, history, political science, anthropology, and psychology.

* Dehydration – freeze drying, or replacement of water with organic solvents such as ethanol or acetone, followed by critical point drying or infiltration with embedding resins.

molar volume at the critical point

They can be calculated from the critical properties and ( noting that is the molar volume at the critical point ) as:

The Curie temperature itself is a critical point, where the magnetic susceptibility is theoretically infinite and, although there is no net magnetization, domain-like spin correlations fluctuate at all length scales.

There, it was first clearly shown that mean field theory approaches failed to predict the correct behavior at the critical point ( which was found to fall under a universality class that includes many other systems, such as liquid-gas transitions ), and had to be replaced by renormalization group theory.

Large numbers on both sides were killed but, at the critical point, the Romans tricked the Goths into an ambush by pretended flight.

There is a critical point where the value of hedonistic properties is affected by actual age and the depreciation schedule turns upward.

Helium-3 boils at 3. 19 kelvin compared with helium-4 at 4. 23 kelvin, and its critical point is also lower at 3. 35 kelvin, compared with helium-4 at 5. 2 kelvin.

Under a HACCP-concept ( Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point ) radiation processing can serve and contribute as an ultimate critical control point before the food reaches the consumer.

This involves heating the steel above its critical point, then quenching the blade to harden it.