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

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.

# 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.

The Spectrogram produced by such an instrument is a graphical display of the time varying pressure level and frequency profiles which give a specific acoustic signal its defining character.

In 1976 the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) revised the definition of the AU for greater precision, defining it as that length for which the Gaussian gravitational constant ( k ) takes the value when the units of measurement are the astronomical units of length, mass and time.

In 1919, after delays caused by the destruction of World War I and a lengthy debate over who should head the institution and the socio-economic meanings of a reconciliation of the fine arts and the applied arts ( an issue which remained a defining one throughout the school's existence ), Gropius was made the director of a new institution integrating the two called the Bauhaus.

In early 2007 Borland rolled out a new company tagline, branding and go to market focus around Open Application Lifecycle Management ( ALM ) – defining it as the segment of the ALM market in which vendors ' solutions are flexible enough to support a customer's specific processes, tools and platforms.

Later a mixer was built for him by Alex Rosner which let him listen to any channel in the headphones independently of what was playing on the speakers ; this became the defining feature of DJ mixers.

It was settled in the case of United States v. Hudson and Goodwin,, which decided that federal courts had no jurisdiction to define new common law crimes, and that there must always be a ( constitutional ) statute defining the offense and the penalty for it.

The extent to which different markets are free, as well as the rules defining private property, is a matter of politics and policy.

Even defining degrees of legal independence has proven to be a challenge since legislation typically provides only a framework within which the government and the central bank work out their relationship.

Constantine's reign of 43 years, exceeded in Scotland only by that of King William the Lion before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, is believed to have played a defining part in the gaelicisation of Pictland, in which his patronage of the Irish Céli Dé monastic reformers was a significant factor.

Yes also produced concept albums during the ' 70s, most notably Tales from Topographic Oceans, which would become a defining album of prog rock, but its critical backlash would lead to the genre's decline in popularity and the rise of punk rock.

Some critics have suggested that unlike CCM and older Christian rock, Christian alternative rock generally emphasizes musical style over lyrical content as a defining genre characteristic, though the degree to which the faith appears in the music varies from artist to artist.

When applied to vector spaces of functions ( which typically are infinite-dimensional ), dual spaces are employed for defining and studying concepts like measures, distributions, and Hilbert spaces.

Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid naming.

The oriented area is the same as the usual area, except that it is negative when the angle from the first to the second vector defining the parallelogram turns in a clockwise direction ( which is opposite to the direction one would get for the identity matrix ).

In Dylan ( and other " extensible languages ") the spell checking method could be added in the module, defining all of the classes on which it can be applied via the construct.

Here, the focus is not on finding precise solutions to the equations defining the dynamical system ( which is often hopeless ), but rather to answer questions like " Will the system settle down to a steady state in the long term, and if so, what are the possible attractors?

The defining genre of the period was arguably the Heimatfilm (" homeland film "), in which morally simplistic tales of love and family were played out in a rural setting, often in the mountains of Bavaria, Austria or Switzerland.

In computer science, formal languages are often used as the basis for defining programming languages and other systems in which the words of the language are associated with particular meanings or semantics.

In later years, Douglass credited The Columbian Orator, which he discovered at about age twelve, with clarifying and defining his views on freedom and human rights.

The dogmatic constitution states that the Pope has " full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the whole Church " ( chapter 3: 9 ); and that, when he " speaks ex cathedra, that is, when, in the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole Church, he possesses, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, that infallibility which the divine Redeemer willed his Church to enjoy in defining doctrine concerning faith or morals " ( chapter 4: 9 ).

( The defining symmetry of special relativity is the Poincaré group which also includes translations and rotations.

Unlike the force carriers of the other forces, gravitation plays a special role in general relativity in defining the spacetime in which events take place.

These are defining characteristics of mercantilism in economics, which dominated most European thinking about political economy until the rise of classical economics.

His conjectures postulated that there should be a cohomology theory of algebraic varieties which gave number-theoretic information about their defining equations.

In protocolary terms, states are distinguished as monarchy or republic depending on the style ( and usually mode of accession, see below ) of their head of state, a typical constitutional provision, but as such this is not defining for the actual political system, which often evolves significantly, or can remain unaltered in other respects despite a transition from monarchy to republic ( or, rarer, vice versa ).