How To Use Culmination In A Sentence

  • It was the culmination of years of boycotts and demonstrations, of freedom rides and sit-ins, of protest and struggle, of sacrifice and suffering.
  • In a show of how much IBM has bought into the cloud, the company has announced something that it calls the culmination of more than 10 years of software management best practices. The Register
  • This was the culmination of a process of left-wing entryism which has seen unions representing communication workers, railwaymen, the fire brigades and the civil service fall like dominoes.
  • The culmination of the exchange was a visit to Foxford by the German students and teachers recently.
  • The 50th day, the day after counting the Omer is completed, is the holiday of Shavuot; it is in a very real sense the culmination of Passover.
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  • A culmination of Stephen Chow's previous movies, Kung Fu Hustle raises the chopsocky comedy bar to another level.
  • This was the culmination of a pretty dismal winter's cricket. Times, Sunday Times
  • The two volumes under review are the culmination of this decade of scholarly and scientific research. The Times Literary Supplement
  • L'idea dell'inseguimento aereo nata un giorno che Fabio Testi, provetto pilota, mi ha invitato in volo sui cieli di Roma: ho subito espresso la voglia di inventare un inseguimento diverso per il culmination del film. Archive 2009-11-01
  • It does Mr. Chernow no disservice to regard his biography as a culmination of a long biographical tradition that has divested Washington of his marmoreal armor. The Life of the Lives
  • The direct motion of Saturn moved that planet away from Hillary Clinton's Midheaven and approached culmination for Barack Obama. Michael Lutin: Hillary and Barack: Wake Up and Start Dreaming
  • Winning first prize was the culmination of years of practice and hard work.
  • Winning first prize was the culmination of years of practice and hard work.
  • The attack was the culmination of a week of harassment of the newspaper, starting with a demonstration by war veterans on Tuesday in which journalists were assaulted and heavy iron bolts were fired from catapults through office windows.
  • The creation of devices capable of producing resonance was the culmination of a long and patient exploration of sounds.
  • Its introduction marked the culmination of 120 years of campaigning.
  • Authorities had braced for large - scale protests marking the culmination Sunday of an important Shiite Muslim commemoration.
  • Embassytown" might be called the culmination of these interests: For his eighth novel he has created a new city on a new world in a new universe, one underpinned by the immer, a "big and tidal quiddity" where normal rules of space and time do not apply and which ships cross to travel between planets. Full Immersion
  • This was a great victory for the school and a culmination of much hard work and commitment invested over a long and busy year.
  • Its onset is an ataxy; and its culmination a paralysis. The Unity of Civilization
  • Our collection is the culmination of innovation, hard work, inspiration and creativity.
  • It was the culmination of ten years of campaigning. Times, Sunday Times
  • Leading Britain into the opening ceremony of the Games preceding one hosted by his own country is the culmination of a difficult personal journey. Times, Sunday Times
  • What we've seen over the past month was the culmination of what the expanded format set in motion when qualifying began two years ago. Times, Sunday Times
  • The space race reached its culmination in the first moon walk.
  • For me it was the culmination of years of admiration. Times, Sunday Times
  • Marking the 40th anniversary of the existence of the union of seven churches has been a culmination of a multitude of ups and downs for the UCZ.
  • The culmination of the cooling trend was the Pleistocene epoch, or Great Ice Age, of the last 1.8 million years.
  • It was the culmination of a fun packed day with activities that included canal associated stalls, a craft fair, a pig roast and a display of canal craft.
  • It is the culmination of at least a year's work and investment.
  • The logical culmination of the process came when the pop singer and song-writer Elton John took over the chairmanship of Watford.
  • Longshore drift transported sediment from this eroding rocky coastline to these embayments following the culmination of the post-glacial marine transgression some 7 ka ago.
  • Instead, the Sabbath is the seventh and final act of creation, the culmination of Creation - the point of it all.
  • The culmination of that was an uplifting climax heightened by the emotional residue of what had gone before.
  • Most products bought by private consumers represent the culmination of a long process of value creation.
  • The iPad, which they called the culmination of an approach that he has seemingly been perfecting for his entire career. Obama: Steve Jobs Deserves His Wealth
  • It is given to us again each day in the Eucharist, in which the paschal mystery is renewed: in a sacramental, mystical way the sacrifice of Christ is made present with its culmination in the mystery of the resurrection.
  • Although these physical attributes are shared by other Oriental and also by the Latin races, they reach a climax in the Jewish type, which in its culmination is unsympathetic to the Anglo-Saxon, the Oriental, or the Latin people. The Social Disability of the Jew
  • The arrests are the culmination of weeks of doomsday preparations. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is in this chapter that the reader sees the natural culmination of orality, African literature in African languages, and African literature in European languages.
  • This was the culmination of a pretty dismal winter's cricket. Times, Sunday Times
  • The announcement yesterday was the culmination of a period of prolonged difficulties for Mr Richards.
  • Matthew wants to achieve a fitting culmination to the night, but he is unable to do so.
  • A decision will be taken at the culmination of the initial research.
  • The hatchling was the culmination of three years of effort by zookeepers watching over every step of its parents 'courtship and mating to make sure everything went as planned, said Tay. Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
  • 'The sin, therefore, can only be the culmination of a long course of self-hardening and depraving.' Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
  • The perfect culmination of instinct we find in the ant-heap and the beehive. The Other Animals
  • ‘That day was a culmination, a climax, the end of a very long road,’ Lewis later wrote.
  • Regardless seems like the culmination of both processes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Eno is like the culmination or extension of certain ideas within rock to the point where they verge on un-rock. Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
  • It signals the culmination of years of hard work, rejection and drama lessons to get a foot in the door of the acting world. The Sun
  • It is a conflict that continues despite the culmination last week of the first, long, drawn-out stage of Egypt's electoral transformation with the third round of voting for a lower house which will pick an assembly to rewrite the country's constitution ahead of presidential elections. Egypt: one year on, the young heroes of Tahrir Square feel a chill wind
  • This year sees the culmination of a major programme of restoration and redecoration at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, which contains one of England's finest art collections in a domestic setting.
  • The arrest is the culmination of an investigation which has been ongoing for upwards of 18 months.
  • It was the culmination of a busy year, in which the total number of warships and auxiliaries of all nations entering Portland Harbour limits has exceeded 2001's record by almost 50 per cent.
  • Last week's decision was the culmination of weeks of bitter wrangling between the new First Minister, senior cabinet colleagues and champions of the game.
  • He said that the find was the culmination of a 25-year career in the antiques trade. Times, Sunday Times
  • One is museum design which is the culmination of all architectural thought and art as well as theatres and auditoriums.
  • Enjoy it: you are witnessing the culmination of five years' toil. Times, Sunday Times
  • Since 1980 a relentless attack on the middle class has concentrated an ever-greater share of national wealth on the hands of a thin sliver of an increasingly aggressive elite; it is reaching its natural culmination in the foreclosure crisis. How to Fix the Foreclosure Mess (Because America Is Like Secretariat)
  • The nurse brings to the relationship herself as a unique human being, the culmination of her particular life experiences.
  • For he would himself deal a treat-ment as might be trusted in anticipation of his inculmination unto fructification for the major operation. Finnegans Wake
  • It was the culmination of the sustained effort of many small entrepreneurs who had carved out a unique niche for offering hospitality without the trammels of the organised industry.
  • It has been a mammoth undertaking and is the culmination of many hundreds of hours of research, editing and printing.
  • The birth, the culmination of a five-year process, was unassisted and went off without a hitch.
  • Enjoy it: you are witnessing the culmination of five years' toil. Times, Sunday Times
  • This was truer than Judis realized, for he seemed not quite to grasp that a culmination is the reaching of the highest point. Donk Depression
  • She plunged into her apostrophe with most self-sacrificing vigor at the beginning of the scene, and was prodigal in the use of her voice in its early moments; but when the culmination of its passion was reached, in what would be called the stretto of the piece in the old nomenclature, she could not respond to its increased demands. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
  • The expenses scandal was the culmination of popular disenchantment with politics rather than its sole cause. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sometimes there's a climax, or a point of culmination, and usually the coda or peroration that ends the piece decisively.
  • Her success is the culmination of years of hard graft. The Sun
  • Their arrest was the culmination of an operation in which 120 other people were detained.
  • As with many modern inventions, Lawton's device was a culmination of ideas and experimentation involving many people.
  • The production, according to the organisers, will be the culmination of a 14-day workshop conducted in Delhi between actors, puppeteers, and dancers from India.
  • The judgment was the culmination of an investigation that began formally in 2012 and was triggered by online comments posted by a disgruntled former employee. Times, Sunday Times
  • The final cook-off is the culmination of an eight month long search for the best amateur mincemeat and pastry cook in the country.
  • At 17 inches tall and 6 pounds, the artificial Zeno is the culmination of five years of work by Hanson and a small group of engineers, designers and programmers at his company, Hanson Robotics. Robot Maker Builds Artificial Boy | Impact Lab
  • It has survived despite the efforts of successive rulers and bureaucracies in Kabul to bring it within the strait-jacket of a modern nation-state, on the questionable assumption that the European construct of the nation-state was a summum bonum, a kind of political form of organization that is self-evident, a 'natural' culmination of all societies. Michael Hughes: Obama's Vietnam
  • The space race reached its culmination in the first moon walk.
  • A hangover is a culmination of a number of metabolic processes and imbalances.
  • This massive autobiographical work was the logical culmination of her long career.
  • The result on a course which suited Cavendish's strengths as a sprinter was the culmination of three years' planning by British Cycling. Evening Standard - Home
  • It has been the culmination of months of carefully thought out planning. Times, Sunday Times
  • Today's "debt crisis" is the culmination of the long-term "starve the beast" strategy from an organized corporate-conservative movement. Dave Johnson: What Is the Real Agenda of the Budget-Cutters?
  • The deal marked the culmination of years of negotiation with the city authorities.
  • Also involved me beating my record for people for dinner by one to make 14 … I’m really not out to beat it any time soon, I leave the culmination of such in Calli’s capable hands. November 24th, 2004
  • At a conversazione held last year at Columbia University, and at a recent meeting of the American Society of Electrical Engineers, his mercury-vapor lamp was exhibited — the practical culmination of research in a new field in electro-physics. Origin of Rhodes Scholarship, Defending Marconi, Rich Inventors
  • Their arrest was the culmination of an operation in which 120 other people were detained.
  • The culmination is its avowedly "apolitical" Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the Mall on Saturday. Jon Stewart, President Obama debate on 'The Daily Show'
  • My birthday fell during that week, and I was given a deck party, which provided, for me at least, the perfect culmination of the trip.
  • The discovery marked the culmination of a five-year, 400-mile fossil hunt across the Arctic's frozen tundra.
  • For some, this competition is the culmination of months of training. Times, Sunday Times
  • Leading Britain into the opening ceremony of the Games preceding one hosted by his own country is the culmination of a difficult personal journey. Times, Sunday Times
  • It would be well, Dick judged, to make the Outlaw act up in real devilishness for a minute or two before the culmination. CHAPTER XXX
  • It was the culmination of yet another feud. Times, Sunday Times
  • The pilgrimage, called the hajj, is considered the culmination of Islamic practice.
  • In a felicitation message, Tara Chand said that the festival of Eid-ul-Fitr marks the culmination of holy month of Ramzan which highlights the values of self-reliant, tolerance and patience. JK Governor,CM,Ministers,DGP & Political leaders greeted people on the occasion of Eid-ul- fitr
  • Christian Sabbath, nor "approves the creed" of any orthodox denomination, to be lecturing a numerous body of Clergymen, as to what they ought or ought not to do, it is the culmination of all that is called effrontery! Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors
  • The culmination of this is the present unfolding catastrophe, which required the moral connivance, in one way or another, of nearly every sector of civil society.
  • Since altazimuth telescope mounts usually have a limit in their ability to track high elevation passes through culmination, especially at near-zenith transits because of the large azimuth swings required, the mount can start falling behind.
  • This massive autobiographical work was the logical culmination of her long career.
  • The science fiction fascination with robots and androids is the culmination of this perception of machines as being almost like one of us.
  • It was the culmination of months of secretive work by a Garda team headed by Assistant Commissioner Joe Egan.
  • Next week will see the culmination, the final, deciding round. Times, Sunday Times
  • The other thing that I think is important is this is really the culmination of what's been kind of a long, drawn out divorce between Ted and the company.
  • It has been a mammoth undertaking and is the culmination of many hundreds of hours of research, editing and printing.
  • When the moment finally comes for our brothers to definitively commit themselves to the Lord as a Discalced Carmelite it is both the culmination of years of prayer, preparation and discernment and a new and wonderful beginning of a life lived for God alone.
  • Her zapateados were of truly elemental power and she brought them to breathtaking culminations in syncopated finales.
  • The sampling at the station was performed approximately 2 weeks before the culmination of the spring bloom.
  • For the Trust it marked not just a few months' worth of campaigning but represented the culmination of nearly half a century of tireless effort.
  • The blue I used to make, she thought to herself, was the culmination of a sequence.
  • Others infer that this construction was the culmination of years of exclusionist and culturally chauvinist thinking on the part of the European scholars, which placed them as naturally superior to all other races.
  • This is the culmination of a punitive regime which has gone on for 10 months under which, although untried and unconvicted, he is not allowed to sleep or exercise in his cell during the day, is denied any personal possessions and is barred from conversing with the guards. Bradley Manning: Cruel and unusual | Editorial
  • The Civil War, with its swashbuckling heroes, its staggering toll, and its consequence of emancipation, is the culmination of an unorthodox intellectual journey. WalMart and the Civil War
  • This was the culmination of five years in which we had been emailing each other. Times, Sunday Times
  • For the 37-year-old former hairdresser, it's the culmination of three years of hard work learning the skills of the trade.
  • In maturity of development, in intellectual force, in beauty of expression, and in general adequateness, De los nombres de Cristo exhibits Luis de Leon's prose at its culmination. Fray Luis de Leon
  • In what some would consider the culmination of his thought, he weds Existentialist biography with Marxian social critique in a Hegelian "totalization" of an individual and his era, to produce the last of his many incompleted projects, a multi-volume study of Flaubert's life and times, The Family Idiot (1971-1972). Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Grenada's emergence from international obscurity was the culmination of four turbulent years of revolution and social experimentation.
  • It is the culmination of many years of work on my part, which began nine years ago. Times, Sunday Times
  • It seems the rejection by workers of an offer that some say is a decent one in a tough economic climate and from a company that is in financial dwang is the culmination of the utility's inability - or unwillingness - to deal with issues. IOL: News
  • Despite scorning the idea that the culmination of scientific research is publications, he has authored several scientific papers.
  • But most people still somehow think we humans are the culmination of the evolutionary tree. Times, Sunday Times
  • The decision to invest in its German network is the culmination of a startling turnround at MMO2.
  • We have created a world where we insist on perceiving every new development as a culmination of something great or as a climax.
  • The whole album was explained as being both a tribute and a satire of doo-wop, the culmination of his live-hate relationship with it.
  • The canonisation is the culmination of a detailed protocol after Cardinal Tisserant commenced the diocesan process for her beatification in 1953 and declared her a Servant of God. The Hindu - Front Page
  • This is credible deterrence in action, the culmination of dogged hard work and specialist investigative techniques. Times, Sunday Times
  • Its predominant life features are the culmination and the beginning of the decline of reptiles, amphibians, cephalopod mollusks, and cycads, and the advent of marsupial mammals, birds, teleost fishes, and angiospermous plants. The Elements of Geology
  • The crime, some suggested, was the logical culmination of certain pro-lifers 'apocalyptic rhetoric and their penchant for singling out particular individuals to calumniate. Red State Story
  • He said that the find was the culmination of a 25-year career in the antiques trade. Times, Sunday Times
  • This crowning moment represents the culmination of years of planning, hard work and solid investment performance.
  • It was the culmination of yet another feud. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's not anywhere that I'd really choose to be, but at that point in my life it was the culmination of every choice that there had been up to that point.
  • The culmination will be a live performance Saturday by the rapper Fabolous. Hot Spot Tenjune Reveals Facelift
  • The marital embrace is the culmination of the total self-giving of husbands and wives.
  • The summit of the Aiguille Verte exhibits the original culmination of the group which is now divided into several aiguilles.
  • What prompts Marie Antoinette's transformation from callow moralist and pliant dauphine in early chapters to empathic mother and brave stoic in the novel's culmination at the Conciergerie? Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund: Questions
  • The culmination of that was an uplifting climax heightened by the emotional residue of what had gone before.
  • To be honest, I was feeling tired from the culmination of two much hecticness so wasn't able to appreciate it as much as I ought to have done.
  • Actually placing the trade should be the final stage of the investment process, the culmination of a period of careful research. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was nearing the culmination of almost five hours of televiewing, which began just after three o'clock on Friday afternoon when Air Force One landed on Trinidad soil and the world's biggest celebrity stepped onto the red carpet at the start of a weekend in the islands. TrinidadExpress Today's News
  • Claire Arbaugh, teacher of the 28-student Business Principles class, has spent most of the term addressing what goes into starting and operating a business, and the culmination is the writing of a business plan. Kingsport Times News - Daily 5
  • It looked like the culmination of a month of office parties, which it probably was. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's June, when graduations mark the culmination of years of effort on the part of students everywhere.
  • The past twelve months for him have been a fitting culmination to an outstanding career, to date.
  • The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years.
  • This revolution, like any other, was not a sudden overnight affair, but a culmination of processes.
  • Neil Rutledge of consultants Grant Thornton said: "This week's spending cut announcement was the inevitable culmination of the vast growth in public debt.
  • Its culmination is expressed in the proverb: "A woman should leave her home but three times, – when she is christened, when she is married, and when she is buried. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
  • The raid was the culmination of weeks of hard intelligence-gathering, of stake-outs and investigation.
  • Most products bought by private consumers represent the culmination of a long process of value creation.
  • This massive autobiographical work was the logical culmination of her long career.
  • He admitted: 'This is the culmination of five years. The Sun
  • The event itself is the culmination of five years of sustained effort by their creators.
  • their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development
  • The space race reached its culmination in the first moon walk.
  • The space race reached its culmination in the first moon walk.
  • It is the logical culmination of more and more media saturation with an emphasis on television.
  • The singing and the dancing represent the culmination of a successful day of campaigning. Times, Sunday Times
  • The debates on this day are the culmination of nine years of strenuous and concentrated campaigning.
  • Firstly, the Scriptures affirm that Christ's redemptive work on earth was the culmination of God's planning and foreordination - which in its inception predated the foundation of the world.
  • The longer piece is the culmination of an extended thinking/writing process.
  • More showpiece than serious contest, it is the culmination of three days of gratuitous exhibitionism in which the clean-cut, vibrant face of the NBA is touted at every turn.
  • Not with the first-stage boosters, which were manipulable and detonable masses of ball lightning, but with those boosters 'culminations, the Vangs; which were ball lightning raised to the sixth power and which only the frightful energies of the boosters could bring into being. Masters of Space
  • It seems simple enough - they were letting their hair down after the successful culmination of four years' hard work. Times, Sunday Times
  • The whole affair is the culmination of the spin phenomenon.
  • This was its first response to my initial letter, rather than the culmination of a lengthy and bitter exchange!
  • The culmination of this madness is the spread of a virus contracted on the surface of Mars that causes those infected with it to "disassemble," a deus ex machina akin to All Stories | The New York Observer
  • His boringness was the culmination of weeks of boredom. Archive 2006-08-01
  • Throughout the European countryside, the culmination of harvest season has always been a cue for thanksgiving and merrymaking, a time to kill the fatted calf, crack open a few bottles, have a dance and get seasonally sloshed.
  • The Public Order Act represented the culmination of a long debate within the government about how increased civil disorder should be controlled.
  • It signals the culmination of years of hard work, rejection and drama lessons to get a foot in the door of the acting world. The Sun
  • It was the culmination of Salmond's transformation of the SNP from an introverted nationalist club into the principal opposition in the first Scottish parliament in 300 years.
  • The logical culmination of the process came when the pop singer and song-writer Elton John took over the chairmanship of Watford.
  • Five years on, her husband is facing a charge for assault - the culmination of a marriage which descended into emotional blackmail, abuse and violence.
  • The canonization is the culmination of a century of campaigning for MacKillop, who founded the order of the Sisters of St Joseph and died in Sydney in 1909 aged 67. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • From the sandlots to the shrine: for John and the rest of the Class of 2002, the call to the Hall is the culmination of boyhood dreams - Hall of Fame Induction Preview
  • Sarabjit Pandher CHANDIGARH: Culmination of two separate "Khalsa" marches marked the beginning of the three-day event to commemorate the tercentennial of an important event in history, when the legendary warrior Baba Banda ... WN.com - Articles related to Terrorists using international credit cards for operations
  • The culmination of the exchange was a visit by the Foxford Transition Years to Ratingen in March and a return visit to Foxford by the German students and teachers last week.
  • It was the culmination of 12 years of training and tens of thousands of miles run. Times, Sunday Times
  • This was the culmination of an atomic programme that the Fourth Republic had begun and which de Gaulle had accelerated.
  • It is the culmination of months of practice for the teams of 11 and 12-year-olds. Times, Sunday Times
  • For the people who fought against the closure plans, it is the culmination of a seven-month campaign to secure the future of the pools.
  • Before they knew it, the culmination of months of thoughtful planning came to fruition. Times, Sunday Times
  • Proud parents came from throughout the county to hear the youngsters sing in what was the culmination of many dedicated hours of practice.
  • According to Kabbalah, kingship or queenship is the culmination of everything swirling around inside of us. Levi Ben-Shmuel: Finding Your Inner Royalty
  • This massive autobiographical work was the logical culmination of her long career.
  • The verdict is the culmination of a long investigation by Rochdale police.
  • Mike Walker says the fracas was the culmination of six months of bickering among the staffers despite attempts he and his business partner made to resolve things. The Office Brawl? Dealing with Feuding Employees
  • It was a culmination of art work the children have produced over the past three weeks.
  • The final drum culmination and superfast guitar playing at the end of the song is simply out of this world.
  • His poetry is no more the acme of dialectical evolution than it is the culmination of the ‘decline’ perceived by Bloom.

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