1.   As you approach the millennium you think of the defining events of the century.

2.   Each one of its biggest hits has been a defining theatrical event of its season.

3.   Few directors have liberated themselves more completely from linear narrative pushing off a defining event.

4.   For many, he said, their year-long tour in Vietnam has been the defining event in their lives.

5.   Second, the announcement by popular retired Gen. Colin Powell that he will not run makes the straw poll a more defining event, according to Tilley.

6.   Super Tuesday has come and gone, but stand by for another defining event.

7.   The death of Amadou Diallo last year became a defining event for the New York Police Department.

8.   This loss emerges as the defining event of his life, explored in each of these tales.

9.   This defining event of shared German-Jewish history is what requires this new Germany to make a new beginning and demands all this dignity.

10.   To understand Voysey, Berman and others say it helps to know about a defining event in his childhood.