At the center of a drama is usually a character or characters who are in conflict at a crucial moment in their lives.

At its final running time of 154 minutes, the film had lost musical numbers and crucial dramatic scenes, and Cukor called it " very painful.

At the Second Battle of Bull Run, the 5th New York, along with another Zouave regiment, the 10th New York " National Zouaves ", held off the flanking attack of James Longstreet's Corps for ten crucial minutes before it was overrun.

At the First Congress of the Communist Party in Shanghai, Chen was elected ( in absentia ) as the party's first General Secretary ; and, with the assistance of Li Dazhao, he developed what would become a crucial cooperative relationship with the international Communist movement, the Comintern.

At the war's end, concealment of the Kremlin's role was considered crucial to neutralize resistance and to make the regimes appear not only autonomous, but also to resemble " bourgeois democracies ".

At home, the work of Enrico Fermi was crucial in shortening the war.

At one crucial point, a bridge over the Narova river collapsed under retreating Russian troops: The stampede led to the overall losses of 6, 000 – 18, 000 dead Russians, depending on sources.

At long range, the aircraft remains in firing range for a long time, so the necessary calculations can in theory be done by slide rules-though, because small errors in distance cause large errors in shell fall height and detonation time, exact ranging is crucial.

At this crucial juncture, Murat's chief of staff, General Augustin Daniel Belliard rode straight to the Emperor's Headquarters and, according to General Ségur who wrote an account of the campaign, told him that the Russian line had been breached, that the road to Mozhaysk, behind the Russian line, was visible through the gaping hole the French attack had pierced, that an enormous crowd of runaways and vehicles were hastily retreating, and that a final push would be enough to decide the fate of the Russian army and of the war.

At this crucial juncture, Friant committed his entire division and, despite the failure of a first attack, soon managed to gain a firm foothold on the escarpment, pushing towards the tower at Markgrafneusiedl, a sign that the battle in this sector was turning in favour of the French.

At ERI, Fairclough, Major, Neibaur and Powell worked on government contracts for the Intelligent Systems Technology Project, and gained an important insight into the ARPANET and related technologies, ideas which would become crucial to the foundation of Novell.

At the 1932 Democratic convention, he swung the Mississippi delegation to Franklin D. Roosevelt on the crucial third ballot and became welcome at the White House.

At the same time, American Pacific forces before and after Midway gained crucial combat experience, so that the Japanese lost the advantage there as well.

At the crucial Battle of Midway your daring and skilled leadership routed the enemy in the full tide of his advance and established the pattern of air-sea warfare which was to lead to his eventual capitulation ..."

At the height of the battle, and with the Swedish army close to panic as a result of the king's death and destruction of the Swedish infantry centre, Knyphausen played a large part in holding the Swedish army together for two crucial hours.

At the urging of British scientist — who had made crucial calculations indicating that a fission weapon could be completed within only a few years — by 1941 the project had been wrested into more capable bureaucratic hands, and in 1942 came under the auspices of a Military Policy Committee led by General Leslie Groves.

At microwave frequencies, the reactance of signal traces becomes a crucial part of the physical layout of the circuit.

At the time, she was the most modern warship of all combatant navies, and played a crucial role in the operations in the Aegean Sea.

At the leadership convention, his campaign was dealt a crucial blow by John Herron who defected to the MacKay camp.

At the time social order was crucial, and this is reflected in Parsons ' tendency to promote equilibrium and social order rather than social change.

At any age, he saw play as crucial to the development of authentic selfhood, because when people play they feel real, spontaneous and alive, and keenly interested in what they're doing.

At this time, Eugène, along with 20 squadrons of Prussian cavalry, moved across the river, and occupied crucial positions.

At the end of 1990, she created the Princess Elizabeth Foundation, a non-political, not-for-profit organization after foreseeing the crucial importance of a vehicle to address the tension brewing just below the surface.

At this point Socrates introduces the " Euthyphro dilemma " by asking the crucial question: " Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious?

At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.

At the moment, the three men were not saying much of anything.

At the moment he was excited about his son's having received the Prix De Rome in archaeology and was looking forward to being present this summer at the excavation of an Etruscan tomb.

At the moment of crisis it had no more depth than an old school tie.

At the same time the multiple transvestitism involved -- the fat man as girl and as baby, as coquette pretending to be a baby -- touches for a moment horrifyingly upon the secret sources of a life like Jacoby's, upon the sinister dreams which form the sources of any human life.

At this moment the volley-ball hit the ground.

At that moment, up walked a tall young man with glasses who announced himself as a world citizen from Basel, Switzerland.

At this moment Mando came hurrying up to announce that the problem was solved and all Norton had to do was to sign a sheaf of papers.

At that moment the bathroom door flew open and Eugene came out, with his face lathered for shaving, and strode down the hall, tying the sash of his dressing gown as he went.

At the moment, many of these are being pulled down.

At the moment, Barco's back was to the road so he didn't see the detectives close in on his convertible which, in their quest for the stolen lap rug, they proceeded to search.

At least the moment was postponed when he had to face the mystery of the power tools.

At that moment Kipling was overwhelmed with awed amazement, suddenly recalling that these identical details of scene, action and word had occurred to him in a dream six weeks earlier.

At this moment, Loveless and Means arrived, crashing through the undergrowth with their horses, and distracted her, and she ran off a short distance and jumped into a crevice between two rocks.

At this moment she was crouched in a cave-like aperture halfway down the Reef.

At this moment, all he could think of was what he'd been forced to undergo.

At that moment, Holden almost slammed on the brakes to go back to Cooper and ask if Ferguson was about.

At the very moment that every attempt is being made to take management out from under the irrationality of anti-trust legislation, a drive is on to abolish collective bargaining under the guise of extending the anti-monopoly laws to unions who want no more than to continue to set wages in the same way that ship operators set freight rates.

At that moment, the nominal ruler of al-Andalus, emir Yusuf ibn ' Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri ( another member of the Fihrid family, and a favorite of the old Arab settlers ( baladiyun ), mostly of south Arabian or ' Yemenite ' tribal stock ) was locked in a contest with his vizier ( and son-in-law ) al-Sumayl ibn Hatim al-Qilabi, the head of the new settlers ( shamiyum, the Syrian junds or military regiments, mostly of north Arabian Qaysid tribes, which had arrived only in 742 ).

At that moment a mysterious stranger, J. Bowden Hapgood, arrives asking for directions to the Cookie Jar.

At that moment, Cora receives a telegram from the governor warning that if the quota of forty-nine cookies is not filled, she will be impeached.

At some moment a price difference exists, and the problem is to execute two or three balancing transactions while the difference persists ( that is, before the other arbitrageurs act ).

At this critical moment, the Roman army was crippled by the outbreak of a second smallpox pandemic, the plague of Cyprian ( 251-70 ).

At such a moment, he continued indignantly, one was bound to recall the funeral of Pushkin and the Tsar's courtiers -- their miserable hypocrisy and false pride.

At the moment, most community colleges award qualifications up to Level 3 in the Malaysian Qualifications Framework ( Certificate 3 ) in both the Skills sector ( Sijil Kemahiran Malaysia or the Malaysian Skills Certificate ) as well as the Vocational and Training sector but the number of community colleges that are starting to award Level 4 qualifications ( Diploma ) are increasing.