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.

According to Steve Erlewine, its memorable guitar riffs, lumbering rhythms, psychedelic blues, groovy, bluesy shuffles and hints of English folk, made it " a significant turning point in the evolution of hard rock and heavy metal ".

1931 was a year when several Surrealist painters produced works which marked turning points in their stylistic evolution: Magritte's Voice of Space ( La Voix des airs ) is an example of this process, where three large spheres representing bells hang above a landscape.

The album marked a minor turning point in the evolution of the Lennon – McCartney partnership, John Lennon particularly now showing interest in composing songs of a more autobiographical nature.

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Venetian hydraulic projects to prevent the lagoon from turning into a marsh reversed the natural evolution of the Lagoon.

In later years, the German-Dutch tradition in particular would come to see the suppression of the revolt as the historic turning point in the evolution of the Russian state after October 1917.

Considered to be the earliest of recorded geologic maps, Metallum Martis marks a turning point in the evolution of scientific rationale concerning the recording and interpretation of geological information.

At a 1995 Alabama State Board of Education meeting, James criticized the theory of evolution in textbooks by imitating a " slump-shouldered ape turning into an upright human ".< ref >

At a turning point of their evolution, plasma bugs developed the ability to fire spores into orbit.

His assistant on the mission, Gene Kranz, considered Glenn's flight " the turning point ... in Kraft's evolution as a flight director.

" Glide Magazine called the album " Dismemberment Plan's landmark masterstroke, still cited by many bands and critics as a turning point in the evolution of indie rock.

The album marked another significant turning point in Lightfoot's musical evolution.

The Canboulay Riots of 1881 were a turning point in the evolution of Trinidad Carnival.

The transformation into the Second Doctor ( originally referred to as a " renewal "), a figure who was the same ' essential ' character as the first but with a very different persona, was a turning point in the evolution of the series, which eventually became a critical element of the series ' longevity.

His paintings The Beet Harvest ( 1890 ) and The Ice Birds ( 1891 ) represent important turning points in this evolution.

On the other hand, the scholars invoking Gödel's Theorem appear, at least in some cases, to be referring not to the underlying rules, but to the understandability of the behavior of all physical systems, as when Hawking mentions arranging blocks into rectangles, turning the computation of prime numbers into a physical question.

In abstract algebra and algebraic geometry, the spectrum of a commutative ring R, denoted by Spec ( R ), is the set of all proper prime ideals of R. It is commonly augmented with the Zariski topology and with a structure sheaf, turning it into a locally ringed space.

* 1957-Fairweather Basin developed, turning marshland into prime residential property.

British prime minister Winston Churchill suggested to the incoming Eisenhower administration that Mossadegh, despite his open disgust with socialism, was, or would become, dependent on the pro-Soviet Tudeh Party, resulting in Iran " increasingly turning towards communism " and towards the Soviet sphere at a time of high Cold War fears.

Brandon Tartikoff ( January 13, 1949 – August 27, 1997 ) was a television executive who was credited with turning around NBC's low prime time reputation with such hit series as Hill Street Blues, L. A. Law, Law & Order, ALF, Family Ties, The Cosby Show, Cheers, Wings, Seinfeld, Miami Vice, The Golden Girls, Knight Rider, The A-Team, St.

During his term as prime minister, the Constitution of Croatia was amended, turning Croatia from a semi-presidential system to a parliamentary democracy and granting more power to the parliament and prime minister.

The area is a prime tourist attraction, particularly during the October weeks when the foliage is turning colour.

Here we are asking not a simple question about a prime number or a palindrome, but we are instead turning the tables and asking a Turing machine to answer a question about another Turing machine.

It marked the turning point in Canadian – American economic relations, reversing the disastrous trade war of 1930 – 31, lowering tariffs, and yielding a dramatic increase in trade ; more subtly, it revealed to the prime minister and the president that they could work together well.

Davis had experience with turning submerged or partially submerged land into prime real estate, having created the Davis Islands in Tampa and Davis Shores near St. Augustine.

However, the city profited from losing the old and inefficient companies as abundance of skilled labour coupled with excellent traffic connections and existing infrastructure attracted numerous foreign firms seeking to invest in Hungary and Székesfehérvár became one of the prime destinations for multinational companies setting up shop in Hungary ( Ford and IBM are some of them ), turning the city into a success story of Hungary's transition into a market economy.

On June 18, negotiations between Basayev and Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin led to a compromise which became a turning point for the First Chechen War.

Recorded in the aftermath of the British Invasion, spearheaded by The Beatles, the album marked a major turning point in The Beach Boys ' career, and in leader / prime songwriter Brian Wilson as an artist.

In 1746, Watson's machine had a large wheel turning several glass globes with a sword and a gun barrel suspended from silk cords for its prime conductors.

In Felippe's storyline, Krassel manipulates the Jirat prime minister, Zomas, eventually turning him into a monster in order to steal the weapon Azoz.