epoch-marking

These sentiments carried particular resonance given the proliferation of epoch-marking wars, incursions, rebellions and uprisings in a decade of bloodletting in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, the Middle East, Darfur and South Ossetia.

Let's declare war on these tired military metaphors Jamie Fahey 2010

Perhaps it was not an epoch-making book, but it was certainly an epoch-marking one.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

Perhaps it was not an epoch-making book, but it was certainly an epoch-marking one.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

More than four months had elapsed since Lincoln's epoch-marking speech at Springfield had brought on his great discussion with

Fifty Years of Public Service Shelby M. Cullom

My first meeting with the kirk session of St. Cuthbert's was an epoch-marking incident.

St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

Like some other epoch-marking books, 'Lyrical Ballads' attracted little attention.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

Looking back to the epoch-marking visit of Their Majesties recently, it seems to me that we can trace to a large extent the fact that we are honoured today by having one so closely allied with the Royal Household representing His Majesty in this country as our GovernorGeneral.

Address 1941

To others the decision might not have seemed momentous; to Bonbright it was epoch-marking.

Youth Challenges Clarence Budington Kelland 1922

On this epoch-marking day, even the officers 'servants were punctual.

Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army James Norman Hall 1919

But she busied herself at the breakfast without a thought of the epoch-marking nature of these purchases.

The Cow Puncher Robert J. C. Stead 1919