National competition was the culmination of work which began with the school year last fall and continued until just before summer vacation.

The CMB's serendipitous discovery in 1964 by American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson was the culmination of work initiated in the 1940s, and earned them the 1978 Nobel Prize.

He has had a lasting influence on the development of church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony.

The culmination of his life's work was the Institutio oratoria ( Institutes of Oratory, or alternatively, The Orator's Education ), a lengthy treatise on the training of the orator in which he discusses the training of the " perfect " orator from birth to old age and, in the process, reviews the doctrines and opinions of many influential rhetoricians who preceded him.

In 1990, the avant-garde musician Diamanda Galas performed Plague Mass, a culmination of her work dedicated to the victims of the AIDS epidemic.

" Undoubtedly, his most famous work is the TWA Flight Center, which represents the culmination of his previous designs and demonstrates his expressionism and the technical marvel in concrete shells.

Russell wrote: " Piltdown was not a ' one-off ' hoax, more the culmination of a life's work.

According to the composer, this work is the culmination of his two other biographical operas, Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha ( about Mohandas Gandhi ).

Bernard Lonergan's hermeneutics is less well-known, but in a series of masterly articles, Fred Lawrence has outlined a case for considering his work as the culmination and achievement of the postmodern hermeneutical revolution that began with Heidegger.

This is far from obvious, however, and represented the culmination of some decades of work.

The quad was the culmination of the work undertaken by Sir Henry Savile at the beginning of the 17th century.

It supported Pollock's work on formalistic grounds as simply the best painting of its day and the culmination of an art tradition going back via Cubism and Cézanne to Monet, in which painting became ever ' purer ' and more concentrated in what was ' essential ' to it, the making of marks on a flat surface.

The culmination of her work was the Bill for the Benefit of the Indigent Insane, legislation to set aside of Federal land ( for the benefit of the insane and the remainder for the " blind, deaf, and dumb "), with proceeds from its sale distributed to the states to build and maintain asylums.

His work was a culmination of earlier works by Sociology in medieval Islam in the spheres of Islamic ethics, political science, and historiography, such as those of al-Farabi, Ibn Miskawayh, al-Dawwani, and Nasir al-Din al-Tusi.

Regardless, however, of the extent of Diderot's contribution to the System of Nature, it is on the basis of this work that d ' Holbach's philosophy has been called " the culmination of French materialism and atheism.

Stars coach Dean Meminger called the game the " culmination of a year of hard work ".

The culmination of the Baroque era was undoubtedly in the work of Johann Sebastian Bach in the first half of the 18th century.

Shortly after the release of Ptolus, which Cook has often described as the culmination of his original ambitions for Malhavoc, he announced that he would be focusing on writing fiction and other forms of creative work he has not yet specified, rather than role-playing games, for the foreseeable future.

The album is a culmination of the band's previous work.

Fétis ’ main theoretical work and the culmination of his conceptual frameworks of tonality and harmony is the Traité complet de la théorie et de la pratique de l ’ harmonie of 1844.

Ferguson's research opened the way for many of the achievements of the Celtic Revival, especially those of Yeats and Douglas Hyde, but this narrative of Irish poetry which leads to the Revival as culmination can also be deceptive and occlude important poetry, such as the work of James Henry ( 1798 – 1876 ), medical doctor, Virgil scholar and poet.

The culmination of Deschamp's work at the castle was the publication of Les Châteaux des Croisés en Terre Sainte I: le Crac des Chevaliers in 1934, with detailed plans by Anus.

The design up to then had been the culmination of work done by Porsche who had won the contract for the heavy tank that March.

For Carlson, the commercial success of the Xerox 914 was the culmination of his life's work: a device that could quickly and cheaply make an exact copy of an existing document.

And it is thought by many who think about such things that Quasimodo is the logical culmination of a school that started with Monet, progressed through Kandinsky and the cubist Picasso, and blossomed just recently in Pollock and De Kooning.

The belief that the Historia was the culmination of Bede's works, the aim of all his scholarship, a belief common among historians in the past, is no longer accepted by most scholars.

Numbers is the culmination of the story of Israel's exodus from oppression in Egypt and their journey to take possession of the land God promised their fathers.

Facing down this evil is the culmination of the hero's story and permits the return to normal life.

The foundation is the culmination of the princes ’ charitable lives so far.

The Mewlānā festival is held over two weeks in December ; its culmination is on 17 December, the Urs of Mewlānā ( anniversary of Rumi's death ), called Šabe Arūs ( شب عروس ) ( Persian meaning " nuptial night "), the night of Rumi's union with God.

The city is known as the site of the culmination of the policy of appeasement employed by Britain and France leading up to World War II.

* Rosh Hashanah ( Hebrew for ' head of the year ') is a Jewish holiday commemorating the culmination of the seven days of Creation, and marking God's yearly renewal of His world.

The culmination of these efforts is Taylor's theorem, which roughly states that every differentiable function locally looks like a polynomial function, and the Stone-Weierstrass theorem, which states that every continuous function defined on a compact interval of the real axis can be approximated on the whole interval as closely as desired by a polynomial function.

It is the most important surviving building of Classical Greece, generally considered the culmination of the development of the Doric order.

He is notable for presiding over the culmination of the Council of Trent.

Adorno's posthumously published Aesthetic Theory, which he planned on dedicating to Samuel Beckett, is the culmination of a lifelong commitment to modern art which attempts to revoke the " fatal separation " of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and explode the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion.

At the Villa Savoye the act of cleansing is represented both by the sink in the entrance hall and the celebration of the health-giving properties of the sun in the solarium on the roof which is given significance by being the culmination of ascending the ramp.

The culmination of this rhetoric, and arguably the one verse that has caused more Jewish suffering than any other second Testament passage, is the uniquely Matthean attribution to the Jewish people: " His blood be on us and on our children!

* November 9 – A new constitution comes into effect in the Kingdom of Nepal, establishing multiparty democracy and constitutional monarchy ; this is the culmination of the 1990 People's Movement.

The Alhambra is the architectural culmination of the works of Nasrid art that were undertaken in the 13th and 14th centuries, with most of the Alhambra having been built at the time of Yusuf I and Mohammed V, between 1333 and 1354.

As the culmination of the celebration, on Sunday evening, Lady Maslenitsa is stripped of her finery, and put to the flames of a bonfire.

Mendes said that Ricky's staring into Lester's dead eyes is " the culmination of the theme " of the film: that beauty is found where it is least expected.

The consequence is that a perspective ( a mind ) is a culmination of a unique pattern of symbolic activity in our nervous systems, which suggests that the pattern of symbolic activity that makes identity, that constitutes subjectivity, can be replicated within the brains of others, and perhaps even in artificial brains.