We face, indeed, what may be a turning point in history, and we must act decisively and wisely.

He saw the Starbird as she lay, her slender mast up and gently turning, its point describing constant languid circles against a cumulus sky.

When was the turning point??

The publication of Alfred Kroeber's textbook, Anthropology, marked a turning point in American anthropology.

Davis believed the loss of Johnston " was the turning point of our fate ".

This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.

* The Capture of Brielle, marked a turning point in the uprising of the Low Countries against Spain in the Eighty Years ' War.

The turning point for Ainu culture was the beginning of the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point.

This was a key turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic, enabling the Royal Air Force, the U. S. Army Air Forces, and the U. S. Navy to provide aerial coverage in the Mid-Atlantic gap.

This command included the Battle of El Alamein, a turning point in the Western Desert Campaign.

The climax of the third book is the account of the Council of Whitby, traditionally seen as a major turning point in English history.

A decisive battle is one of particular importance ; often by bringing hostilities to an end, such as the Battle of Hastings or the Battle of Hattin, or as a turning point in the fortunes of the belligerents, such as the Battle of Stalingrad.

This, his maiden Test century in his fifth Test, was the turning point of the series as West Indies won the final two Tests to win the series 2 – 1. Lara went on to name his daughter Sydney after scoring 277 at SCG.

However, defeat at the Battle of Salamis would be the turning point in the campaign, and the next year the expedition was ended by the decisive Greek victory at the Battle of Plataea.

It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point.

Many military historians say that the battle of Schwetz / Świecino was the turning point of the Thirteen Years ' War, leading to the final victory in 1466.

" The confrontation between Italy and Ethiopia at Adwa was a fundamental turning point in Ethiopian history ," writes Henze.

Calvin considered the first coming of Christ as the key turning point in human history.

The discovery of the New World represented a major turning point in the history of food because of the movement of foods from and to Europe, such as potatoes, tomatoes, corn, yams, and beans.

Industrialization was also a turning point that changed how food affected the nation.

One important turning point came in the Seven Years ' War, when the British conquered the port of Havana and introduced thousands of slaves in a ten month period.

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 loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.

Even though it did not feel like it, this was a turning point in the club's history leading to a period of turbulence and change including further promotion and exile.

A turning point in the town's history was the disastrous fire of May 11th, 1899 which destroyed most of the town – more than 400 houses, including many Jewish businesses and homes.

Games were played in the home town's park, with weather often turning grassland into mud.

After turning left at the town's main intersection ( Toulinguet and Main ), Route 340 runs through northern portion of the town and continues through the surrounding communities on the northern island, Back Harbour, Paradise and Wild Cove, then after a 0. 5 km stretch enters the town of Crow Head and continues to the Long Point Lighthouse.

Blenheim has gone down in history as one of the turning points of the War of the Spanish Succession.

The supporters of the " Boer " designation view the term " Afrikaner " as an artificial political label which usurped their history and culture, turning " Boer " achievements into " Afrikaner " achievements.

The publication of John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1689, but dated 1690 ) marks a major turning point in the history of deism.

The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in history.

In the end, the Fujiwara were destroyed, the old system of government supplanted, and the insei system left powerless as bushi took control of court affairs, marking a turning point in Japanese history.

Two major events were turning points in the earlier history of the Gulf Coast region.

Unable to draw Flaminius into battle by mere devastation, Hannibal marched boldly around his opponent ’ s left flank and effectively cut Flaminius off from Rome ( thus executing the first recorded turning movement in military history ).

The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in history ; almost every aspect of daily life was influenced in some way.

* 1212 – Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: after Pope Innocent III calls European knights to a crusade, forces of Kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Peter II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeat those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain.

Henry III continued his attempts to reclaim Normandy and Anjou until 1259, but John's continental losses and the consequent growth of Capetian power in the 13th century proved to mark a " turning point in European history ".

Throughout history, workers have used tactics such as the go-slow, sabotage, or just not turning up en-masse to gain more control over the workplace environment, or simply have to work less.

His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than 2 months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.

Usually known as the Epistola ad Mellitum, it conflicts with the letter sent to Æthelberht, which the historian R. A. Markus sees as a turning point in missionary history, when forcible conversion gave way to persuasion.

The books can be broadly divided into the Pentateuch, which tells how God selected Israel to be his chosen people ; the history books telling the history of the Israelites from their conquest of Canaan to their defeat and exile in Babylon ; the poetic and " wisdom " books dealing, in various forms, with questions of good and evil in the world ; and the books of the biblical prophets, warning of the consequences of turning away from God.

It was a major disaster for the Crusaders and a turning point in the history of the Crusades.

The late-Victorian scholar Frederic William Maitland also introduced the possibility that Stephen's reign marked a turning point in English legal history — the so-called " tenurial crisis ".

The " Student Uprising " became a turning point in the history of universities throughout the western world.

By 1919, an " influx " of labor had migrated to Berlin turning it into one of the most fertile grounds for the modern arts and sciences in history.