Sentences with phrase «significant turning point of»

These paintings operate at a critical intersection of my own biography, my personal obsessions and a very significant turning point of the American landscape.

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I met Evan, he sold me the vision for Snap, if you like, and don't forget this is at a point when they just turned down pretty significant offers from Google and Facebook and all of my colleagues and friends and family were telling me I was an idiot to join the small startup in Venice.

Thus, for reasons quite different from those associated with the origin and meaning of the western calendar, the year 2000 appears to mark a significant turning point in human history.

And he takes the measure of his days best when be uses a significant turning point simply as an occasion to rethink now in the present the significance of what has always been true: That we live every moment of life equidistant from eternity.

The case of Adnan Syed — made widely known through the first season of the Serial podcast — has reached a significant turning point.

And now we must turn to the critical phase of this paper wherein I shall designate the points at which I find myself in tension with the theological proposals of this highly significant work, Christ Without Myth.

Since a history of Faith Church had just been finished a few months before he arrived, Landry invited the committee to begin its work with a study of this history; the story of the church's founding, its significant experiences in the past, critical turning points, its line of important personages.

In most of his games since his arrival he's been poor at best and that has been duly noted by every Arsenal fan and pundit alike, so one half decent game against an unusually poor side on the day does not mark a significant turning point.

Adopting the Toyota wind tunnel for its development at the end of 2014 was a significant turning point, and the team made great strides with its unique development of the 2014 - 16 aerodynamic rules.

And, you never quite know which moments will mark turning points in a long legislative battle like that over gun control... perhaps in retrospect, this week will be significant for reasons far beyond a demonstration of the potential of mobile digital technology.

Though the record of ballot box success by candidates backed by the Democrat - turned - Republican - turned - independent mayor is spotty, his support will give the political newcomer Wilson something to point to in the face of the significant labor and institutional Democratic support enjoyed by his general election target, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

Tuesday's Strategic Case for HS2 was a significant turning point for the future of Britain's railways.

The resignation of John King as New York State Education Commissioner has the potential to be a significant turning point for public education.

Andrews says the team's research marks an important turning point in the field because it represents a significant advance toward solving the cathode problem while also highlighting the inherent advantages of using much more imaginative, metastable materials like this new form of vanadium pentoxide.

2013 was very though year for me, I got sick, my mom got sick, so many things and relationships were / have fallen apart that at some point last year I have wondered what's the point of waking up day after day just to see my life fall apart piece by piece... Then again, when I look back, I've had one of the most significant and path turning years.

With the sheer amount of characters at play in the X-Men super team - up, Peters likely will not have a significant role to play, but at this point, with Singer turning the time - travel tale into an all - star cast party featuring towering Sentinel robots and Peter Dinklage's mustache, more the merrier, right?

Robin Williams is no stranger to Disney; the studio has distributed three of his most significant films, each representing a turning point in the actor's repeatedly reinvented career.

The $ 74.4 billion education package is a turning point for education in the state and marks a significant step up in the long and grueling climb out of the recession.

The Broad plan points to three of LA Unified's largest charter operators that have received Broad largess — Green Dot Public Schools, Alliance College - Ready Public Schools and KIPP Public Charter Schools — and says, «These organizations have turned our investments into significant academic gains for students.»

The cornerstone of BMW's Geneva show stand next month, the 2 - series Active Tourer marks a significant turning point for the German automaker, adopting a transverse - mounted engine and standard FWD.

Here are a few significant turning points in the chronology of bicycle history:

Warhol began painting appropriated images of pop culture, such as his famous Campbell Soup Can, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis series, in 1960, marking a significant turning point in his career.

The present work belongs to this discrete body of transitional work, and represents a significant turning point in Warhol's artistic development....

In the fall of 1931, a significant turning point in Calder's artistic career occurred when he created his first truly kinetic sculpture and gave form to an entirely new type of art.

1979 marked a significant turning point in Venet's career, when he began a series of wood reliefs — Arcs, Angles, Straight Lines — and created the first of his Indeterminate Lines pieces.

Times art critic Christopher Knight had a gander and reports that the reinstallation of the collection marks a significant turning point: a «savvy» rearrangement that «represents a step forward in the museum's confidence.»

From a partisan political point of view, I don't actually care much about the false claims of» 97 % scientific consensus», since (as Dan has pointed out in the past) they don't actually work persuading people, and for a significant fraction of the population actually serve to turn people against it.

Although the BTS and Professor Wigmore remain unconvinced, Chinese government sources are at pains to point out that from 1 January 2007 new laws effectively mean only China's highest court, the Supreme Court, will have the jurisdiction and power to approve the ultimate sanction — namely the death penalty — and that this in turn will lead to a significant reduction in the frequency of the use of capital punishment, and presumably will affect the availability of transplantable organs.

Levine, who runs all of Instagram's business, gets points for turning those products into significant moneymakers.

But with the right combination of marketing, significant carrier support and a little luck, the One could very well be a turning point for HTC.

Sandy Point Estate (SPE) is a one - of - a-kind, historically significant, turn - of - the - century mansion with additional buildings, situated on a small peninsula jutting into the deep, clear swimming waters of Pigeon Lake.