It was the culmination of an offensive campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia, and a battle of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run ( First Manassas ) fought in 1861 on the same ground.

Scholars have come to view the Great Purge as a crucial moment – or rather the culmination – of a vast social engineering campaign started at the beginning of the 1930s ( Hagenloh, 2000 ; Shearer, 2003 ; Werth, 2003 ).

The Battle of Corregidor was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Philippines.

Narutowicz's murder was the culmination of an aggressive propaganda campaign vilifying him.

The newspaper's campaign reached its culmination the Saturday before the election with a banner front page headline reading:

The Ypres campaign became the culmination point of the Race to the Sea.

The Ypres campaign was the culmination of the first year of the Great War.

* November 14 – 18-The Battle of Ia Drang in South Vietnam is the culmination of the Ia Drang Valley campaign.

Located in South Carolina, the national park received that designation in 2003 as the culmination of a grassroots campaign which had started in 1969.

The battle was the culmination of Philip's campaign in Greece ( 339 – 338 BC ) and resulted in a decisive victory for the Macedonians.

A second European Cup medal for Souness arrived in 1981 with a 1 – 0 victory over Real Madrid – the culmination of a campaign in which Souness scored a hat-trick in the quarter-final against CSKA Sofia.

The defense presented the case that the prosecution was the culmination of a 20-year campaign of harassment by the FBI and CIA, and that the prosecution was acting on the orders of the CIA when they destroyed evidence and hid witnesses.

This official confirmation was the culmination of an investigative campaign begun by the Glasgow-based newspaper The Herald ,< ref >

The series of battles is sometimes known erroneously as the Seven Days Campaign, but it was actually the culmination of the Peninsula Campaign, not a separate campaign in its own right.

It took place in and around the Saudi Arabian city of Khafji, from 29 January to 1 February 1991 and marked the culmination of the Coalition's air campaign over Kuwait and Iraq, which had begun on 17 January 1991.

This was the culmination of a major campaign by Bangladeshi Hindu groups who had been demanding official recognition for the primary Hindu place of worship following the declaration of Islam as the state religion in 1988.

The campaign, the culmination of years of ideological and backroom conflicts within the party, was one of the most bitter in Canadian history.

This official confirmation was the culmination of an investigative campaign begun by the Glasgow-based newspaper The Herald, on behalf of the families of the eight Scots who won the first curling Olympic Gold medal in Chamonix, France in 1924.

It was the culmination of the three-year struggle against the Bolshevik regime established by the Soviet Russia ’ s Red Army during a military campaign against the Democratic Republic of Georgia in early 1921.

Although a short battle, Fallen Timbers was the culmination of an arduous campaign and owes its success to the intense training and discipline of the Legion of the United States.

The establishment of the College was the culmination of a campaign begun in 1844 by the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, the forerunner of the British Medical Association.

The Battle for Corregidor ( 5-6 May 1942 ) was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Philippines during the Second World War.

In Wales the passing of the Bill was seen by many as the culmination of a long campaign which had begun in the mid-nineteenth century, led largely by Welsh Nonconformists who objected to paying tithes to the Church of England.

The opening was the culmination of a five year publicity and fund raising campaign, initiated by local girl Jay Cunningham who felt that the garden and hall were not prominent enough.

These ideas ultimately proved to be successful in 1947 in the culmination of the Indian Independence Movement.

The Second Coming will be a natural culmination of the process of world evangelization, rather than a revolutionary event that brings sudden and dramatic change.

At the culmination of the ensuing months-long legal dispute, he watched, as described by Sandford, " millions of dollars of his future earnings being surrendered " in what were " uniquely generous terms for Defries ", then " shut himself up in West 20th Street, where for a week his howls could be heard through the locked attic door.

In the Bacchae, he restores the chorus and messenger speech to their traditional role in the tragic plot, and the play appears to be the culmination of a regressive or archaizing tendency in his later works ( for which see Chronology below ).

Basilwizi sees itself as a culmination of numerous efforts by the affected people to be heard by the government authorities.

Meant to be the culmination of previous show trials, it was now alleged that Bukharin and others sought to assassinate Lenin and Stalin from 1918, murder Maxim Gorky by poison, partition the Soviet Union and hand out her territories to Germany, Japan and Great Britain.

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.

Sometimes this will be the culmination of an entire feud, ending it for the immediate future ( known as a blowoff match ).

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!

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.

It is generally believed that it is due to the inertia of the fluid as a whole: the culmination of time dependent and convective acceleration ; hence flows where inertial effects are small tend to be laminar ( the Reynolds number quantifies how much the flow is affected by inertia ).

Objects are located in the night sky using right ascension and declination relative to the celestial equator ( analogous to longitude and latitude on Earth ), and when sidereal time is equal to an object's right ascension the object will be at its highest point in the sky, or culmination, at which time it is usually best placed for observation, as atmospheric extinction is minimised.

The signing was the culmination of long months of intensive debate among politicians, military planners and atomic scientists over the fate of this new energy source and the means by which it would be regulated.

Meant to be the culmination of previous trials, it now alleged that Bukharin and others committed the following crimes:

Whilst widely criticised at the time, over the longer term the decision can be seen as a logical culmination of the withdrawal from Britain's colonial-era political and military commitments in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere that had been underway under British governments of both parties since the Second World War – and of the parallel switch of Britain's emphasis to its European identity.

She is believed to be the Mambo who sacrificed the black pig at the culmination of the start of the first Haitian Revolution.

Parker felt that the act could sufficiently be the culmination of Cartman's sociopathic behavior, and would " a new bar " by portraying Cartman as being capable of performing anything short of murder.

The culmination of his plan was to be his death ( the crucifixion ), his resurrection and his reign as the true Kingly and Priestly Messiah, not in heaven but on earth — the realized King of the Jews.

Gluck's greatest French admirer would be Hector Berlioz, whose epic Les Troyens may be seen as the culmination of the Gluckian tradition.

Meant to be the culmination of previous trials, it was now alleged that Bukharin and others sought to assassinate Lenin and Stalin from 1918, murder Maxim Gorky by poison, partition the U. S. S. R and hand her territories to Germany, Japan, and Great Britain, and other preposterous charges.

The Lotus Sutra is held by Nichiren Buddhists, as well as practitioners of the Chinese Tiantai ( T ' ien-t ' ai ) and corresponding Japanese Tendai sects, to be the culmination of Shakyamuni Buddha's 50 years of teaching.

Bhava Samadhi is a state of ecstatic consciousness that can sometimes be a seemingly spontaneous experience, but is recognized generally to be the culmination of long periods of devotional practices.

Complete Auto Transit must be recognized as the culmination of the Court's emerging commerce clause approach, not just in taxation, but in all of its aspects.