Meher Baba said that the breaking of his silence would be a defining event in the spiritual evolution of the world.

They are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when people in the homosexual community fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted sexual minorities, and they have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.

The Battle of Lechfeld ( 10 August 955 ), often seen as the defining event for holding off the incursions of the Hungarians into Western Europe, was a decisive victory by Otto I the Great, King of the Germans, over the Hungarian leaders, the harka ( military leader ) Bulcsú and the chieftains Lél ( Lehel ) and Súr.

However, the abolition of slavery was not the single defining event that it is sometimes supposed to have been.

Arguably it was the single most defining event in the islands ' history.

At this time, there were still members of the Byzantine court who remembered the passage of the First Crusade, which was a defining event in the collective memory of the age and one which had fascinated Manuel's aunt, Anna Komnene.

Fiachra Gibbons of The Guardian wrote that the event " will go down in art history as the defining moment of the new and previously unheard of Anti-Stuckist Movement.

The defining event which made up his mind was the news that Fianna Fáil had lost two by-elections in his native Cork ( Cork City and Cork North – East, both on 7 November ).

# It is a historically significant photo of the event and one of the defining images of the Vietnam War.

The defining event of the Stone wing of the movement was the publication of Last Will and Testament of The Springfield Presbytery, at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, in 1804.

Another defining event for western conservatives was when Mulroney accepted the results of an unofficial Senate " election " held in Alberta, which resulted in the appointment of a Reformer, Stanley Waters, to the Senate.

Because signals and other causal influences cannot travel faster than light ( see special relativity and spooky action at a distance ), the light cone plays an essential role in defining the concept of causality-for a given event E, the set of events that lie on or inside the past light cone of E would also be the set of all events that could send a signal that would have time to reach E and influence it in some way.

The defining event of the 1980s for British socialists was the 1984-5 miners ' strike.

The Second Great Awakening has been called the " central and defining event in the development of Afro-Christianity.

Bush campaign advisor Karen Hughes defended the ads as " very tasteful " and noted that 9 / 11 was a defining event for Bush's presidency.

The major and defining event in the history of Indian cricket during this period was the Partition of India following full independence from the British Raj in 1947.

The defining event that changed the face of Tla-o-qui-aht forever is eternalized in the name of the Esowista Peninsula.

Vigorish percentage can be defined in a way independent of the outcome of the event and of bettors ' behaviors by defining it as the percentage raked in a risk-free wager.

The loss of the United States, at the time Britain's most populous colony, is seen by historians as the event defining the transition between the " first " and " second " empires, in which Britain shifted its attention away from the Americas to Asia, the Pacific and later Africa.

Bishop's duties consisted of defining technical rules and general administration of SCCA competition, as well as providing artwork for many of the club's magazines and event programmes.

The second defining event is more of a period of change than a sudden movement.

Venetia's death was a major tragedy for Digby, probably the single most defining event of his life.

At this late stage in his career he rejected an offer from Empoli FC as his car broke down while travelling to sign the contract, defining such an event as a " sign from God " and thus ending an 18 year long career that saw him play in three countries and earn more than a hundred caps for his country.

A good way to know if something is part of a concept is to identify the defining features of the concept and see if the object or event in question shares those defining features.

Rolling Stone in their retrospective review says that " Black Flag lived up to it, defining L. A. hardcore punk with violent guitar and the pissed-off scream of Henry Rollins, especially on " TV Party " and " Rise Above.

As part of the general survey, the Willamette Stone was placed just west of Portland, defining the Willamette Meridian.

The area where Lustleigh now stands has been inhabited since before records began as shown by the remains of stone hut circles, which can still be seen in the ' Cleave ' ( meaning ' Cliff ' or ' Cleft ', which is the defining geological feature of the valley ) and the presence of an ancient burial monument " Datuidoc's Stone " which dates from before AD 600.

Cayley proposed an aircraft with a " fixed wing and a horizontal and vertical tail ," defining characteristics of the modern airplane.

The 1967 Six Day War realigned Israeli politics, with the issue of occupied territories henceforth defining what is " right wing " and " left wing ," with, among other things, the result that militant Israeli nationalism tended to be anti-Arab rather than anti-German.

The theoretical wing area, mean aerodynamic chord, and wing span are input along with a parameter defining the surface roughness of the aircraft.

* The GNU Project Philosophy Directory, containing many defining documents of the free software movement

It rejects the leadership of any political party, defining itself as a " movement of movements.

Carroll's 1987 book Liber Null & Psychonaut is considered one of the defining works of the chaos magic movement.

Prominent theorists in this movement are Philip Pettit and Cass Sunstein, who have each written several works defining republicanism and how it differs from liberalism.

The Summer of Love became a defining moment of the 1960s, as the hippie counterculture movement came into public awareness.

More often the defining ideas of any philosophical movement are templates on which individual thinkers develop their own particular ideas.

In the first ( 1961 ) edition, Esslin presented the four defining playwrights of the movement as Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet, and in subsequent editions he added a fifth playwright, Harold Pinter – although each of these writers has unique preoccupations and characteristics that go beyond the term " absurd.

Kyle suggests that the new direction Gold set " inevitably " led to the experimental New Wave, the defining science fiction literary movement of the 1960s.

It is widely considered one of the defining texts of the Existentialist movement.

It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the British trade union movement.

Another defining feature is the lack of an official organization or official name for the movement.

Also associated with it was the designer William Morris, whose efforts to make beautiful objects affordable ( or even free ) for everyone led to his wallpaper and tile designs to some extent defining the Victorian aesthetic and instigating the Arts and Crafts movement.

For example, words to use against opponents include decay, failure ( fail ), collapse ( ing ), deeper, crisis, urgent ( cy ), destructive, destroy, sick, pathetic, lie, liberal, they / them, unionized bureaucracy, " compassion " is not enough, betray, consequences, limit ( s ), shallow, traitors, sensationalists ; words to use in defining a candidate's own campaign and vision included share, change, opportunity, legacy, challenge, control, truth, moral, courage, reform, prosperity, crusade, movement, children, family, debate, compete, active ( ly ), we / us / our, candid ( ly ), humane, pristine, provide.

The defining feature of micro switches is that a relatively small movement at the actuator button produces a relatively large movement at the electrical contacts, which occurs at high speed ( regardless of the speed of actuation ).

Nevertheless, a defining moment for Neoclassicism came during the French Revolution in the late 18th century ; in France, Rococo art was replaced with the preferred Neoclassical art, which was seen as more serious than the former movement.

This moment was for Wesley an awakening to the assurance found in salvation by grace alone and has been referred to by scholars as a defining moment in the Methodist movement.

The film writer B. Ruby Rich cited Poison as one of the defining films of the emerging New Queer Cinema movement, with its focus on maverick sexuality as an anti-establishment social force.

Rather, if realignment is thought of as a generational or long-term political movement, then change will occur over several elections, even if there is one " critical " election defining the new alignment.

Perhaps the defining moment of the jazz-fusion movement ( or perhaps even the spearhead of the Jazz-funk style of the fusion genre ), the album made jazz listeners out of rhythm and blues fans, and vice versa.

The defining idea that the völkisch movement revolved around was that of a Volkstum ( lit.

One of the defining theologians for the Social Gospel movement was Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist pastor of a congregation located in Hell ’ s Kitchen.