The battle was a defining moment for the young Athenian democracy, showing what might be achieved through unity and self-belief ; indeed, the battle effectively marks the start of a " golden age " for Athens.

This first digital delivery and exhibition of a full-length feature film to paying audiences is widely considered to be the defining moment for digital cinema's commercial viability.

" This will be a defining moment in the fantasy sports industry ," said Charlie Wiegert, executive vice president of CBC.

It became a defining moment in the foreign policy of the United States and one of its longest-standing tenets, and would be invoked by many U. S. statesmen and several U. S. presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and others.

However, Luthor is outraged when he learns that not only is Superman's mission genuine, but his defining moment of tragedy is the loss of his father.

Paul Marino called the addition of this feature " a defining moment for achinima ".

Mieszko's baptism of 966, seen as a defining moment in the establishment of the Polish state, may have taken place in Poznań.

It was the Hatfield crash on 17 October 2000 that proved to be the defining moment in Railtrack's collapse.

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

The song would become " part of the sixties Zeitgeist " as it was captured forever in the Woodstock film ; Hendrix's image performing this number wearing a blue-beaded white leather jacket with fringe and a red head scarf, has since been regarded as a defining moment of the 1960s.

It became a defining moment in the foreign policy of the United States and one of its longest-standing tenets, and would be invoked by many U. S. statesmen and several U. S. presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan.

" Embraced by young people who kept returning to see it again, the movie sold 10 million tickets and quickly became what the French call a film générationnel, a defining moment in the culture.

On the occasion of his 300th umpiring appearance in 2008, McLaren described Hird's outburst as a " defining moment " in his career.

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.

Selected as one of the last popes of the Byzantine Papacy, the defining moment of Constantine's pontificate was his 710 / 711 visit to Constantinople where he compromised with Justinian II on the Trullan canons of the Quinisext Council.

Because of the extensive and substantial changes that Crisis on Infinite Earths implemented on many titles published by DC Comics, the series became a defining and critical moment in DC Comics ' long-standing continuity.

The defining moment of crisis for the NSC during Ford's tenure came during the Mayagüez incident.

The debut performance at the Royal Festival Hall was a defining moment for Wilson.

Among very few representations of Protesilaus, a sculpture by Deinomenes is just a passing mention in Pliny's Natural History ; the outstanding surviving examples are two Roman copies of a lost mid-fifth century Greek bronze original represent Protesilaus at his defining moment, one of them in a torso the British Museum, the other at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

It was at this battle, regardless of exactly when and where this occurred, that a defining moment of Epaminondas's early life would occur.

It was the most famous goal in Canadian hockey history, and was the defining moment for a generation of Canadians.

The performance by The Who in 1967 was another defining moment in the series.

The defining moment marking the end of this era occurred on June 8, 1987 when the largest fire in the history of the city destroyed the landmark amusement pier and adjoining Haunted Mansion, " Kid's World " Amusement Park and other businesses.

Understanding the need for compatibility was the defining moment of the player industry.

" That's a defining moment for almost every football fan in Scotland irrespective of where their club allegiance lies ," said football historian Bob Crampsey.

Although it did not achieve the same levels of commercial success as the band's later releases ( it reached # 73 on the Billboard 200 ), it has been hailed by many fans and critics as Dream Theater's masterpiece and the band's defining album.

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.

This fact probably instilled in the younger Pasteur the strong patriotism that later was a defining element of his character.

Israel would later become identified in sources as the " House of Omri " ( Bit-Humria ), with the term " Israel " being used less and less as history progressed ( the other defining term for " Israel " is " Samaria ", beginning in the reign of Joash ).

This later developed into one of the defining characteristics of tonality.

Others concentrated on defining problems and paradoxes that became the basis for later mathematical, scientific and philosophic study.

Gilliam later spoke to Salman Rushdie about defining experiences in the 1960s that would set the foundations for his views on the world, later influencing his art and career:

The convention had reverted to defining the atomic weight of hydrogen as 1, although at the level of precision of measurements at that time — relative uncertainties of around 1 % — this was numerically equivalent to the later standard of oxygen = 16.

Their " Virgin Years " and later albums became a defining influence in the genre known as New Age music, although the band themselves disliked the term.

During the medieval period, St Cuthbert became politically important in defining the identity of the people living in the semi-autonomous region known as the Liberty of Durham, later the Palatinate of Durham.

U. S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, who represented the US in discussions, later stated: " The notable omissions in regard to withdrawal are the word ' the ' or'all ' and ' the June 5, 1967 lines ' the resolution speaks of withdrawal from occupied territories, without defining the extent of withdrawal ".

Spurred on by a series of seminars in Poland in 1926 by Łukasiewicz that advocated a more natural treatment of logic, Jaśkowski made the earliest attempts at defining a more natural deduction, first in 1929 using a diagrammatic notation, and later updating his proposal in a sequence of papers in 1934 and 1935.

The important role of the Stoics in defining the linguistic sign terms adopted later on by Ferdinand de Saussure like " significant " and " signifie ".

An official defining characteristic of an earl still consisted of the receipt of the " third penny ", one-third of the revenues of justice of a shire, that later became a fixed sum.

His earlier experiences in Ay were his defining influence in his later work.

On May 9, 1981 Norman performed at the Dominion Theatre in London, " one of the defining moments in his career ", which was recorded and released later that year as Larry Norman And His Friends On Tour.

Victor Vroom, in collaboration with Phillip Yetton ( 1973 ) and later with Arthur Jago ( 1988 ), developed a taxonomy for describing leadership situations, which was used in a normative decision model where leadership styles were connected to situational variables, defining which approach was more suitable to which situation.

Emma publicly denied that her husband had ever preached or practiced polygamy, which later became a defining difference between the church under Brigham Young, and the church under her son Joseph Smith III that she remained affiliated with until her death at the age of 74.

Views within Sunni Islam branched off even further in later generations, with Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari and Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi defining even a simple majority view as constituting consensus and Ibn Taymiyyah restricting consensus to the view of the religiously learned only.

The value of the outer space survey of earth was a defining step in the development of the Soyuz program's grand strategy: the later evolution of space-based research platforms have roots in Beregovoy's lengthy and meticulous data-collection.

As well, Blair's naming and defining of four generic categories of writing: historical writing, philosophical writing, fictitious history, and poetry, and his analysis of the different parts of discourse plays an important role in the development of later compositional theories.

In addition, he showed a preference for a declamatory, homophonic style, which he refined later in his career into a seconda prattica manner influential on Monteverdi, and he also showed a liking for high voices – something which turned out to be a defining characteristic of the music-making at the Este court in Ferrara.

Reinfeldt later stated that although the effects of that deep ideological division and battle in the party lingered on within the Moderate Youth League, he also felt that it was a defining moment in his life.