And we've seen many seminal moments.

Based on Ilya Repin's seminal Volga Boatmen.

The Internet is a seminal lever in this process.

His contribution is considered a seminal piece of work in this field.

His research of Persian literature, history, particularly the Qajar era was a seminal work.

If you are in a state of seminal pollution, then bathe and purify yourself well.

Indeed, I believe that it is here that the seminal reason for their plunging poll ratings lies.

History The inception of the RFC format occurred in 1969 as part of the seminal ARPANET project.

Karl Popper modified this scheme in his seminal book The Open Society and Its Enemies , published in 1944.

Well, we know the answer because Thomas S. Kuhn wrote a seminal treatise about this back in 1962.

Even John Rawls's seminal Theory of Justice remained a pastime for the few rather than a precept for the many.

The embrace of essential human rights standards as a cornerstone of a country s development is one of our era s seminal innovations.

There was feverish talk of a possible military takeover, and the army again proved itself to be a seminal political actor.

Indeed, Hirschman s seminal contributions have now been recognized by the United States Social Science Research Council, which this year established a prize in his honor.

For those of us who regard the collapse of communism in 1989 as a seminal event of twentieth century history, Pope John Paul is a hero.

Like many Nobel prizes, these awards recognize not only the seminal work undertaken by Kahneman and Smith, but also the schools of thought they help to lead.

BERLIN This year marks the centennial of the outbreak of World War I, which is reason enough to reflect on what this seminal European catastrophe teaches us today.

He meant the authors of truly seminal ideas, like his own notion that from time to time capitalism must be saved by state intervention to manage aggregate demand.

In late 1947 he returned to Cambridge for a sabbatical year during which he produced a seminal work on Intelligent Machinery that was not published in his lifetime.

It was a representative of the Age of Reason, Cesare Beccaria, who first advocated in 1764, in a few pages of a seminal booklet, the abolition of capital punishment.

A seminal 1998 study led by David Wilcove, now an ecologist at Princeton, cites invasive species as the second leading cause of extinction in the U.S., after habitat loss.

According to 1930s marriage manual author, Theodoor van de Velde, a slight seminal odor can be detected on the breath of a woman within about an hour after sexual intercourse.

The World Trade Center was one of the most striking American implementations of the architectural ethic of Le Corbusier, and it was the seminal expression of Yamasaki's gothic modernist tendencies.

LONDON In 1993, the economists Alberto Alesina and Larry Summers published a seminal paper that argued that central bank independence keeps inflation in check, with no adverse consequences for economic performance.

Elite is a seminal space trading video game, written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell and originally published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers in in September of 1984.

In his seminal work on evolution, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, Charles Darwin used the much cited expression survival of the fittest.

And it takes a little bit of nerve to dive into those primal, terrifying parts of ourselves and make our own decisions and not make our housing a commodity, but make it something that bubbles up from seminal sources.

If you saw 2001 A Space Odyssey, and you heard the boom, boom, boom, boom, and you saw the monolith, you know, that was Arthur C. Clarke's representation that we were at a seminal moment in the evolution of our species.

Squaring the circle of justice and growth was a necessary idea but not one that could ever inspire widespread enthusiasm and popular support. Even John Rawls's seminal Theory of Justice remained a pastime for the few rather than a precept for the many.

The EU s special representative in the South Caucasus, Swedish diplomat Peter Semneby, played a crucial role in bringing back Imedi TV in time to restore media balance ahead of the presidential election possibly the first time that the EU took a leading role in seminal political events in Georgia.

Yet, even in Iraq, Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, the country s most influential Shia cleric, recently issued a seminal statement proclaiming the need for a civil, not religious state, with equal freedom for all to participate. Sistani also expressed disagreement with those close to Iran who want Shia to go to Syria to fight for Bashar al Assad s regime alongside Hezbollah.

Moreover, intellectually, these women remind us that Western feminism did not have to evolve the way it did, and can still change and grow to embrace a more satisfying and humane definition of equality. Simone de Beauvoir, whose seminal bookThe Second Sex laid the groundwork for post war Western feminism, was an Existentialist who was neither a wife nor a mother nor a woman of faith.

Any decision to continue as before would send an unambiguous message to the clandestine threshold countries that are secretly pursuing nuclear weapons despite lofty rhetoric and wordy documents, the nuclear powers lack the political will to change course. 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.

This New Peace phenomenon was first publicized by Andrew Mack s Human Security Report Project, supported by the superb database of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program. Harvard s Steven Pinker, in his seminal book The Better Angels of our Nature, put it in a larger historical context not just the Long Peace between the major powers since 1945, but, more important, a centuries old pattern of steady decline in the human appetite for violence.