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The turning point in the trial is Katerina's damning testimony against Dmitri.
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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.
turning and trial
In 1999, less than a decade after the UN sanctions were put in place, Libya began to make dramatic policy changes in regard to the Western world, including turning over the Lockerbie suspects for trial.
Salinas asserted that his efforts were a matter of turning Fujimori over for trial, for violating the Peruvian constitution.
Its most arresting scene, however, remains that in which insanity is hinted at during her trial, expressively composed not for musical instruments, but rather the sound of several fishing-reels slowly turning.
In the trial, it emerged that Berewold had come to his conclusion through a form of divination known as " turning the loaf " where a wooden peg was stuck into the top of a loaf of bread with four knives then stuck into the sides.
His character is inspired by the revolutionary Sergey Nechayev, whose trial for murdering a former follower inspired the depiction of Shatov's murder and Dostoyevsky's broader theme of young radicals turning violently on each other.
During his trial, Betty declared her love for Bruce, who was eventually convicted, and sentenced to death, but Bruce escaped the nuclear bomb intended to execute him by turning into the Hulk and escaping.
He did not take part in Bonner's trial after the first day, and it was rumoured that he ' was turning about to another party '.
He was released from Bradford in 2008, and after initially turning down a move to Chester City, he was given a trial at Crewe, which was unsuccessful, and instead he joined Chester where he spent six months before his contract was terminated to allow him to move to Austin Aztex.
Pierre Guillaume Sayer ( c. 1801 – after May 1849 ) was a Métis fur trader whose trial was a turning point in the ending of the Hudson's Bay Company's ( HBC ) monopoly of the fur trade in North America.
On 1 January 1989, at the start of the ' turning point ', he was permitted to exercise the priestly ministry for a ' trial ' year.
Operation Greylord was also a turning point in the use eavesdropping devices in order to obtain evidence for trial.
The trial and hanging received national publicity from newspapers such as The New York Times, thus turning Dula's story into a folk legend.
Doyle dismissed the loitering charges against the students and then stepped down from the bench, turning the trial over to Special City Judge John I. Harris.
Some analysts at the trial later opined " the prosecution let Orchard get away from the facts and his testimony turned into a syrupy story of repentance, religion, and God's mercy to sinners, which had the effect of turning everyone's stomach.
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What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.
Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.
Gen. Maxwell Taylor's statement in Saigon that he is `` very much encouraged '' about the chances of the pro-Western government of Viet Nam turning back Communist guerrilla attacks comes close to an announcement that he will not recommend dispatching United States troops to bolster the Vietnamese Army.
In the very week of our war against Katanga, we make a $133 million grant to Kwame Nkrumah, who has just declared his solidarity with the Communist bloc, and is busily turning his own country into a totalitarian dictatorship.
Chuck a length of 1/8'' '' dia. drill rod into a drill press or some similar turning device and while it is rotating file the end square and then file a slight taper 1/8'' '' long.
`` I should say it is the turning of courts of law into veritable theatres for sex dramas, involving clergymen and parishioners, psychiatrists and patients.
The turning is accomplished by applying voltage to the gyro torquers described above.
The operator must continually supply the correct amount of turning current to the gyro torquers so that the effect of gyro drift is canceled.
The Soviets understand, moreover, that the first step in turning a country toward Communism is to turn it against the West.
The second stage is to retain the nominal classification of `` neutralist '', while in fact turning the country into an active advocate and adherent of Soviet policy.
This is well evidenced by the Quietist doctrines carried over in Zen: the idea of the inward turning of thought, the enjoinder to put aside desires and perturbations so that a return to purity, peace, and stillness -- a union with the Infinite, with the Tao -- could be effected.
The new `` School For Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy -- the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character.
The device comes in variations where it is propelled by motors or by the seated occupant turning the rear wheels by hand.
Apostasy ( turning from Christ ) is only committed through a deliberate, willful rejection of Jesus and renunciation of saving faith.
Kedging or warping is a technique for moving or turning a ship by using a relatively light anchor.
It is used occasionally when it is necessary to limit the turning circle as the yacht swings when it is anchored, such as in a very narrow river or a deep pool in an otherwise shallow area.
As the vessel gathers sternway the strain on the cable pivots the vessel around what is now the weather quarter turning the vessel onto the other tack.
Alfred the Great is scolded by his subject, a neatherd's wife, for not turning the breads but readily eating them when they are baked in her cottage.
In the film, the monster is called a Kraken, although it is depicted as a lizard-like creature rather than a squid ; and combining two elements of the myth, Perseus defeats the sea monster by showing it Medusa's face, turning the monster into stone.
To trace it starting arbitrarily at South America, it flows through the Drake Passage between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula and then is split by the Scotia Arc to the east, with a shallow warm branch flowing to the north in the Falkland Current and a deeper branch passing through the Arc more to the east before also turning to the north.
" Townsend, turning to the sources behind the pseudo-Clementine writings, argues that the middle of the 2nd century is the terminus ad quem for the final composition.
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