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.

Recognizing that this type of service is an important factor in attracting and retaining customers, organizations are increasingly turning to technology to help them improve their clients ’ experience while aiming to increase efficiency and minimize costs.

Schliemann cornered the market in indigo ( an important dye ) and then went into the indigo business itself, turning a good profit.

A senior surgeon in the war, Billings built two of the world's most important libraries, Library of the Surgeon General's Office ( now the National Library of Medicine and the New York Public Library ; he also figured out how to mechanically analyze data by turning it into numbers and punching onto the computer punch card as developed by his student Herman Hollerith.

His 1853 trip to Europe to buy arms was undoubtedly the most important experience of his life ; his stay in Paris proved to be a turning point for him.

The identification of watermarks is important and may be done with the naked eye by turning the stamp over or holding it up to the light.

Amid the post-war environment, the profiles of Arafat and Fatah were raised by this important turning point, and he came to be regarded as a national hero who dared to confront Israel.

Before turning to the question whether to overrule Austin and part of McConnell, it is important to explain why the Court should not be deciding that question.

The word troposphere derives from the for " turning " or " mixing ," reflecting the fact that turbulent mixing plays an important role in the troposphere's structure and behavior.

" Leopold von Ranke felt that " Poitiers was the turning point of one of the most important epochs in the history of the world.

After 1000, Ancona became increasingly independent, eventually turning into an important maritime republic ( together with Gaeta, Trani and Ragusa, it is one of those not appearing on the Italian naval flag ), often clashing against the nearby power of Venice.

This would have important consequences for the crusade, as it alienated the powerful Ibelin faction, turning them against the emperor.

< p > With full responsibility for my words, I am now compelled to say that the cruel massacre of the Chinese proletariat and the Chinese Revolution at its three most important turning points, the strengthening of the position of the trade union agents of British imperialism after the General Strike of 1926, and, finally, the general weakening of the position of the Communist International and the Soviet Union, the party owes principally and above all to Stalin.

Starting from 1220, the Lodigiani ( inhabitants of Lodi ) spent some decades in realizing an important work of hydraulic engineering: a system of miles and miles of artificial rivers and channels ( called Consorzio di Muzza ) was created in order to give water to the countryside, turning some arid areas into one of the ( still now ) most important agricultural areas of the region.

According to his own words an important turning point was a visit at the late nineties at the University of Bethlehem on the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The development of Mahavidyas represents an important turning point in the history of Shaktism as it marks the rise of Bhakti aspect in Shaktism, which reached its zenith in 1700 CE.

Lansing Millis was successful in turning the small town of Millis into an important area of Massachusetts.

As Rothko achieved success, he became increasingly protective of his works, turning down several potentially important sales and exhibition opportunities.

The radio station was very important to the small town and was the Lake Eufaula Giant, the voice could be heard all over lake Eufaula by turning into the station 102. 3.

Her successes in Manhattan Melodrama and The Thin Man marked a turning point in her career and she was cast in more important pictures.

In the 20th century, French cuisine marked an important turning point influencing culinary methods and creating a type of Criollo style that has been implemented now in Chilean cooking.

The Xi ' an Incident of December 1936 () was an important turning point in Chinese modern history, took place in the city of Xi ' an during the Chinese Civil War between the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) and the insurgent Chinese Communist Party and just before the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Roach played on many of Parker's most important records, including the Savoy November 1945 session, a turning point in recorded jazz.

In any social system in which communications have an importance comparable with that of production and other human factors, a point like f in Figure 2 would ( other things being equal ) be the dwelling place for the community leader, while e and h would house the next most important citizens.

More important is the simple human point that all men suffer, and that it is a kind of anthropological-religious pride on the part of the Jew to believe that his suffering is more poignant than mine or anyone else's.

From the rather tortuous history of electoral planning in Morocco an important point emerges concerning the first elections in a developing country and evaluating their results.

the important point, however, is that these magnificent achievements, unlike those of later decades, were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models.

`` The important point is that both be satisfied with the adjustment ''.

This last point is important because if high school pupils are aware that few, if any, graduates who have chosen a certain vocational program have obtained a job as a consequence of the training, the whole idea of relevance disappears.

Towards the extreme west the Futa Jallon highlands form an important diverging point of rivers, but beyond this, as far as the Atlas chain, the elevated rim of the continent is almost wanting.

Lake Tanganyika remains an important trading point.

Although BCD is not as widely used as in the past, decimal fixed-point and floating-point formats are still important and continue to be used in financial, commercial, and industrial computing, where subtle conversion and rounding errors that are inherent to floating point binary representations cannot be tolerated.

The distinction between the two isn't always clear, but may become an important issue if a whole system is expected to not have a single point of failure ( SPOF ).

Thus, the use of a psalm creates an important theological point.

They also argue that satellite radio will boost Canadian culture by giving vital exposure to independent artists, instead of concentrating just on the country's stars, and point to the CRTC's successful extraction of promises to program 10 % Canadian content on satellite services already operational in the United States as important concessions.

This point is especially important, as these wars demonstrated that such energies could be of decisive importance and for a time led to a democratization of the armed forces much as universal suffrage democratized politics.

Though Gauss had up to that point been financially supported by his stipend from the Duke, he doubted the security of this arrangement, and also did not believe pure mathematics to be important enough to deserve support.

Bokmål is based on Danish unlike the other Norwegian language, Nynorsk, which is based on the Norwegian dialects, with Old Norwegian as an important reference point.

Because intellectual and religious freedom are important values for the Disciples of Christ, the colleges, universities, and seminaries founded by its congregations do not seek to indoctrinate students or faculty with a sectarian point of view.

The trade with Africa offered several possibilities to set up trading posts or factories, an important starting point for negotiations.

Continuing his chastisement of Luther — and undoubtedly put off by the notion of there being “ no pure interpretation of Scripture anywhere but in Wittenberg ” – Erasmus touches upon another important point of the controversy:

Whilst Laura Mulvey's paper has a particular place in the feminist film theory, it is also important to note that her ideas regarding ways of watching the cinema ( from the voyeuristic element to the feelings of identification ) have been very important in terms of defining spectatorship from the psychoanalytical view point.

This graph is planar ( it is important to note that we are talking about the graphs that have some limitations according to the map they are transformed from only ): it can be drawn in the plane without crossings by placing each vertex at an arbitrarily chosen location within the region to which it corresponds, and by drawing the edges as curves that lead without crossing within each region from the vertex location to each shared boundary point of the region.

As a man who never had formal schooling, to have his writings declared to be culturally important was a point of great satisfaction.

The base was also an important intermediate distribution point for World War II merchant shipping convoys from New York City and Key West, Florida, to the Panama Canal and the islands of Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago.

The upper melting point is below human body temperature, a factor which is important for mouthfeel of foods produced with gelatin.