1.   And it was the defining experience of his career.

2.   But Deas had a defining experience early in his career, while touring with a vocal quartet and performing in a small town in Southeast Missouri.

3.   Capt. Richard E. McGill, an executive at Polaroid, says his service in the Persian Gulf a decade ago was a defining personal experience.

4.   It turned out to be a defining experience in his young life.

5.   The loss was a defining experience.

6.   While cool reason reigned in product design, the defining experience of Cologne was definitely one from the heart.

7.   The Army is still the defining experience of his life.

8.   Whereas suffering was the defining experience for many, for Bellow, who had no more money than anybody else, the Depression was a kind of golden age.