We face, indeed, what may be a turning point in history, and we must act decisively and wisely.

He saw the Starbird as she lay, her slender mast up and gently turning, its point describing constant languid circles against a cumulus sky.

When was the turning point??

The publication of Alfred Kroeber's textbook, Anthropology, marked a turning point in American anthropology.

Davis believed the loss of Johnston " was the turning point of our fate ".

This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.

* The Capture of Brielle, marked a turning point in the uprising of the Low Countries against Spain in the Eighty Years ' War.

The turning point for Ainu culture was the beginning of the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point.

This was a key turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic, enabling the Royal Air Force, the U. S. Army Air Forces, and the U. S. Navy to provide aerial coverage in the Mid-Atlantic gap.

This command included the Battle of El Alamein, a turning point in the Western Desert Campaign.

The climax of the third book is the account of the Council of Whitby, traditionally seen as a major turning point in English history.

A decisive battle is one of particular importance ; often by bringing hostilities to an end, such as the Battle of Hastings or the Battle of Hattin, or as a turning point in the fortunes of the belligerents, such as the Battle of Stalingrad.

This, his maiden Test century in his fifth Test, was the turning point of the series as West Indies won the final two Tests to win the series 2 – 1. Lara went on to name his daughter Sydney after scoring 277 at SCG.

However, defeat at the Battle of Salamis would be the turning point in the campaign, and the next year the expedition was ended by the decisive Greek victory at the Battle of Plataea.

It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point.

Many military historians say that the battle of Schwetz / Świecino was the turning point of the Thirteen Years ' War, leading to the final victory in 1466.

" The confrontation between Italy and Ethiopia at Adwa was a fundamental turning point in Ethiopian history ," writes Henze.

Calvin considered the first coming of Christ as the key turning point in human history.

The discovery of the New World represented a major turning point in the history of food because of the movement of foods from and to Europe, such as potatoes, tomatoes, corn, yams, and beans.

Industrialization was also a turning point that changed how food affected the nation.

One important turning point came in the Seven Years ' War, when the British conquered the port of Havana and introduced thousands of slaves in a ten month period.

A critical turning point comes when the King decides not to give money to a man who has committed theft but instead to cut off his head and also to carry out this punishment in a particularly cruel and humiliating manner, parading him in public to the sound of drums as he is taken to the execution ground outside the city.

The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.

Even though it did not feel like it, this was a turning point in the club's history leading to a period of turbulence and change including further promotion and exile.

Dear heaven, no, thought Mr. Skyros, turning away as another man came in.

When I came back from church at noon Mrs. Thaxter was turning into the Salter driveway.

Not only does the ensuing crisis rank with the Berlin Blockade, the Suez Crisis and the Yom Kippur War as one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, it is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict, or possibly World War III, where it is estimated that 100 million Americans and over 100 million Russians would have perished.

A turning point came on 2 November.

The turning point came with the debate on the Missouri Compromise in 1820 when he broke with his friend John C. Calhoun, who became the most outspoken national leader in favor of slavery.

He came to Minnesota after turning around a struggling Stanford University football program as head coach from 1989 – 91.

This turning point in the evolution of the prime ministership came with the death of Anne in 1714 and the accession of George I. George spoke no English, spent much of his time at his home in Hanover, and had neither knowledge of nor interest in the details of English government.

The turning point came in the Charente Valley in spring 1179.

The turning point in the game came with 10: 10 remaining: facing fourth down and 1-yard to go at the Dolphins ' 43-yard line, and trailing 17-13, Washington running back John Riggins broke through the Miami defense and ran into the end zone for a touchdown to take the lead.

The turning point for XyWrite came in the form of a disastrous near-partnership with IBM, which was seeking a modern replacement for its venerable DisplayWrite word processor.

Amid the post-war environment, the profiles of Arafat and Fatah were raised by this important turning point, and he came to be regarded as a national hero who dared to confront Israel.

The turning point in Tamar's fortunes came with the death of the powerful catholicos Michael whom the queen replaced, as a chancellor, with her supporter, Anton Glonistavisdze.

Bulgaria's economic advancement during the era came to an end in the 1980s, and the collapse of the Communist system in Eastern Europe marked a turning point for the country's development.

A turning point in Kazan's career came with his testimony as a " friendly witness " before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952 at the time of the Hollywood blacklist, which cost him the respect of many liberal friends and colleagues.

The city of Rome, thus, came into being as these separate settlements acted as a group, draining the marshy valleys between them and turning them into markets ( fora in Latin ).

The turning point for Pym came with an influential article in 1977 in the Times Literary Supplement in which two prominent writers, Lord David Cecil and Philip Larkin, nominated her as " the most underrated writer of the 20th century ".

A turning point in the town's history came in 1603 when Margrave Christian, the son of the elector, John George of Brandenburg, moved the aristocratic residence from the castle of Plassenburg above Kulmbach to Bayreuth.

Robert-Houdin would have readers believe that a major turning point in his life came when he became apprenticed to the magician Edmund De Grisi, Count's son and better known as Torrini.

The turning point came in June when a Buddhist monk, Quảng Đức, set himself on fire in the middle of a busy Saigon intersection in protest of Diệm ’ s policies ; photos of this event were disseminated around the world, and for many people these pictures came to represent the failure of Diệm's government.

An important turning point in radio drama came when Schenectady, New York's WGY, after a successful tryout on August 3, 1922, began weekly studio broadcasts of full-length stage plays in September 1922, using music, sound effects and a regular troupe of actors, The WGY Players.

A turning point of his artistic life came when he first noticed a fellow student drawing.

The turning point came in 1898 when Alfred Cort Haddon seduced " Rivers from the path of virtue ... ( for psychology then was a chaste science )... into that of anthropology :” He made Rivers first choice to head an expedition to the Torres Straits.

The turning point in his life and career came on the Friday night of his first week in London: he had a chance meeting in the street with Bill Fraser, who was by now featuring in a comedy at the Playhouse Theatre.