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34 examples of Epochal in a sentence

'Terreur' was a period of massacres whose importance hasn't been fully documented and that -for the most part- were driven by ambition, greed and the settling of personal disputes, fed to ignorant sans-culottes as the next epochal step against tyranny.
The plot may seem odd or a bare excuse to us today, but back then the possibility of epochal archaeological discoveries was not only real, but a commonplace occurrence.
Finally, Europe’s epochal migration crisis is not helping those trying to make the case for the EU.
Gordon argues that all of the epochal advances, from running water and electricity to the internal combustion and jet engines, have been made.
The very name – the first machine age was the Industrial Revolution – suggests an epochal shift.
But the most epochal events of the last week took place in two of Asia’s great democracies: India and Japan.
Thus, China’s ability to bring North Korea into line – a capacity that the US, in particular, believes Xi has – may in fact depend on the outcome of a more epochal struggle to bring the PLA fully under central authority.
This October, 128 leading experts in the fields of human rights and equality from 44 countries launched a landmark attempt to build on the epochal 1948 UN declaration to establish universal human equality.
Is Latin America ready for this epochal change?
But, until new narratives replace the old ones, the epochal shift in politics will simply bring forth other leaders who play on the same anger and fears.
With just-concluded parliamentary elections, and a new constitution to be approved, Turkey is approaching an epochal moment.
Up to now, the region (excluding Israel and Turkey) had more or less missed out on the epochal process of worldwide modernization.
Israel, too, would be well advised to prepare for epochal change in the region and try to reach a peace settlement with the Palestinians and Syria as quickly as possible.
In 1907, in the wake of an epochal financial crisis that almost brought a complete global collapse, several countries started to think of finance primarily as an instrument of raw power that could and should be turned to national advantage.
Because policymakers were initially captivated by cyclical thinking, they did not regard the financial crisis as a secular or epochal event.
That 20 years after this epochal event an iron curtain remains around Cuba makes this anniversary poignant.
As American politics becomes more polarized, and as Obama struggles to manage the challenges posed by epochal global developments, large domestic programs to address rising income inequality are probably beyond his administration’s reach.
This is likely to have epochal consequences, as weakening oil prices undermine the authoritarian regimes that control the main producers.
In these epochal battles, women's fiercest enemy has been tradition, and its staunch ally: religion.
The goals and targets that the world is about to embrace do not adequately reflect the significance of this epochal change.
Overcoming Latin America’s Skills MismatchWASHINGTON, DC – Latin America could be on the verge of an epochal transformation.
Despite all these epochal changes, Russians cannot accept the loss of their imperial role.
It is only today, ten years later, that we are becoming fully aware of the magnitude and multiplicity of the challenges that originated in those epochal developments.
Yet 2008-2009, like 1989, may very well correspond to an epochal change, whose unfolding consequences will be felt for decades.
Years of studies, and the passionate pleas of patients worldwide, are finally opening the way to a technique – somatic cell nuclear transfer, also known as “therapeutic cloning” – that may bring about epochal changes for the health of us all.
Were they to abandon nuclear energy, however, their epochal change of heart would constitute a seminal contribution to global nuclear security – and thus to the fight against nuclear proliferation.
And the most profound implication of this epochal change may be that we are most likely only at the beginning of it.
We are now in another period of epochal change, and urbanization is accelerating again.
This is an epochal change of direction for China's relations to the world that trace back to events five centuries ago.
A superpower that has earned only frustration in its abortive efforts – whether war or regional diplomacy – in the dysfunctional Middle East, the US faces the Iran crisis in the midst of its epochal strategic shift to Asia and the Pacific.