Luther's translation of the Bible into German was a decisive moment in the spread of literacy, and stimulated as well the printing and distribution of religious books and pamphlets.

As a concentrated form of narrative prose fiction, the short story has been theorised through the traditional elements of dramatic structure: exposition ( the introduction of setting, situation and main characters ), complication ( the event that introduces the conflict ), rising action, crisis ( the decisive moment for the protagonist and his commitment to a course of action ), climax ( the point of highest interest in terms of the conflict and the point with the most action ) and resolution ( the point when the conflict is resolved ).

The Battle of Adrianople in 378 was the decisive moment of the war.

Luther's translation of the Bible into German was a decisive moment in the spread of literacy, and stimulated as well the printing and distribution of religious books and pamphlets.

American soldiers climbing a sea wall in Incheon during a decisive moment in the timeline of the Korean War.

The defeat was widely blamed on the European monarchs, especially Emperor Frederick II and King Béla IV of Hungary, who had refused to help, and the unexpected and humiliating escape from the battle of Henry's Upper Silesian cousin Mieszko II the Fat, who was tricked by the Mongols into retreating in the decisive moment of the battle.

" books edited by Robert Cowley presented dozens of essays by historians or prominent writers about " how a slight turn of fate at a decisive moment could have changed the very annals of time.

The decisive moment of the battle was when John led the Varangian Guard, largely composed of Englishmen, to assault defensive Pecheneg wagon laager, employing their famous axes to hack their way in.

This marked the decisive end of Wilson's autocratic leadership within the band, and has been seen to be " the moment when the Beach Boys first started slipping from the vanguard to nostalgia.

However, at the decisive moment when the new executive was about to sign a five-year contract, he keeled over and died, forcing Alan to forge the dead man's signature.

At the decisive moment of the battle, Desaix was shot from his horse.

It was at this decisive moment that Archduke Charles personally brought reinforcements to his battered left wing: five battalions from Infantry Regiment 57 Joseph Colloredo and 15 Zach, one battery of six-pounders, all drawn from Austrian II Korps and four squadrons of hussars, as well as the entire 8th Hohenzollern Cuirassier regiment, from the Cavalry Reserve.

Jordaens's Night Vision appears to be a very faithful representation of Phlegon's story and depicts the decisive moment or climax of the ancient tale.

Because the decisive moment of the battle occurred when the Austrian flagship the Erzherzog Ferdinand Max successfully sank the Italian flagship Re d ' Italia by ramming, in subsequent decade every navy in the world largely focused on ramming as the main tactic.

This appointment was in two respects a decisive moment in his career ; on the one hand it made him give his whole attention to a subject for which he was admirably suited, but to which he had so far given only a secondary interest ; and on the other hand, it threw him into politics.

In fact his failure to hold London against Edward was a decisive moment, leading to the Battle of Barnet ( April 1471 ) and the death of Warwick.

Kapuściński claimed, in response to a question posed by Adam Michnik, that his attitude to Communism changed early on, " the decisive moment having come in the year 1956 " ( presumably a reference to the events of Poznań June and the process of de-Stalinisation brought about by the Thaw of Gomułka, and the Hungarian Uprising ), although he remained a loyal member of the Party until December 1981 and never spoke out against it afterwards, including during the period of the Third Republic following the Party's self-dissolution in January 1990.

Hampton first saw combat in July 1861, at the First Battle of Bull Run, where he deployed his Legion at a decisive moment, giving the brigade of Thomas J.

Writing in 2000, the television historian John Caughie stated that " Newman's insistence that the series would use only original material written for television made Armchair Theatre a decisive moment in the history of British television drama.

He served as one of seven pułkowniks in Koniecpolski's army, and once again his cavalry unit charge proved to be a decisive moment of the battle, bringing him much fame.

Instead, at the decisive moment, black civil rights and justice itself had been sacrificed for the political interests of white politicians.

The decisive moment of the match was French forward Jean Barthe's tackle on Jan Prinsloo near the French try-line prevented a certain try.

Making note of this, Kogălniceanu expressed his hope that France would still support his country at the decisive moment.

A decisive moment in the development of STS was the mid-1980s addition of technology studies to the range of interests reflected in science studies programs.

The eleventh century Persian mathematician Omar Khayyám saw a strong relationship between geometry and algebra, and was moving in the right direction when he helped to close the gap between numerical and geometric algebra with his geometric solution of the general cubic equations, but the decisive step came later with Descartes.

Frieser, in agreement with Overy, Cooper and others that reject the existence of a blitzkrieg doctrine, argues that after the failure of the Schlieffen Plan in 1914, the German Army came to the conclusion decisive battles could not be executed on a strategic level.

The importance of London in the Classical period is often overlooked, but it served as the home to the Broadwood's factory for piano manufacturing and as the base for composers who, while less notable than the " Vienna School ", had a decisive influence on what came later.

The decisive defeat came from German side Werder Bremen.

In Italy, Bonaparte won a notable victory against the Austrians at Marengo in 1800, but the decisive win came on the Rhine at Hohenlinden later that year.

One fraction led by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz were avid followers of the teachings of the American historian Alfred Thayer Mahan and believed in building a “ balanced fleet ” centred around the battleship that would, if war came, seek out and win a decisive battle of annihilation ( Entscheidungsschlacht ) against the Royal Navy.

That treaty, an uneasy truce between Sparta and Athens signed midway through the Peloponnesian War, came at the end of seven years of fighting during which neither side had gained a decisive advantage.

After losing the first two games, the Mariners and Griffey were on the verge of elimination, but came back to win the next two games, setting up a decisive fifth game.

In the playoffs, the Magic came close to stunning the heavily favored Miami Heat in the first round, extending the series to a decisive game five, after losing the first two games.

The decisive game came down to the final second.

Neither side was able to achieve a decisive advantage during the first years of the war ; the Empress came to control the south-west of England and much of the Thames Valley, while Stephen remained in control of the south-east.

The last major decisive battle of the Lazic wars came in 556 when Byzantine general Martin defeated a massive Sassanian force led by a Persian nakhvaegan ( field marshal ).

Those included George Buchanan, Diogo de Teive, Jerónimo Osório, Nicolas de Grouchy, Guillaume Guérante and Élie Vinet, who came to be decisive for the disclosure of the contemporary research of Pedro Nunes.

All these campaigns came to a halt with the accession of Ali to the caliphate, when a new and decisive phase of Muawiyah's career began.

Madame Geoffrin's popularity in the mid-eighteenth century came during a decisive time as the center of social life was beginning to move away from the French court and toward the salons of Paris.

The only decisive action during the whole war came in Ireland where William III crushed the forces of James II in a campaign for legitimacy and control of the British Isles.

" In her review, Pauline Kael noted that " the decisive change in the characters ' lives which the story hinges on takes place suddenly and hardly makes sense ..." She was not the only critic to question the gap in the plot ; of the scene in the hospital shortly after Katie gives birth and they part indefinitely, critic Molly Haskell wrote, " She seems to know all about it, but it came as a complete shock to me ".

The legions of Titus confronted and defeated Philip at the Aous, However the decisive encounter came at Cynoscephalae in Thessaly in June 197 BC, when the legions of Flamininus defeated Philip's Macedonian phalanx.

Initially, Prebisch wrote a long text, but after having written the first draft, and on repeated suggestion, he came to read Hans Singer's paper: Post-War Relations between Under-developed and Industrialized Countries ( Feb. 1949 ), about the deterioration of the terms of trade, which became decisive for him.

The Indigenous Peoples Rights Act came into existence in 1997 and gave the peoples of the Cordillera decisive influence over the establishment of foreign mining companies.

The war came to an end when the Earth Federation finally gathered enough strength for a full counter attack, in which the few decisive battles were told in Mobile Suit Gundam as well.

Defeat came at the Battle of Chaeronea ( 338 BC ), the decisive contest in which Philip II of Macedon, with his son Alexander, extinguished Theban hegemony.

The controversy became a struggle for control of Massachusetts ; it came at a time when the new society was forming, and it had a decisive effect upon the future of New England.

Not without justification, the Battle of Sempach came to be seen as the decisive turning point between the foundation of the confederacy as a loose pact in the 14th century, and its growth into a significant political and military power during the 15th century.