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‘An event can be formative.’

[⟨det event.n⟩ formative.a]

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The most formative event in his life was the Dagestanskaya Street massacre on August 6 1996, when 30 opposition fighters and militia officers defending the city mayor’s office were shot and killed despite promises of free passage through the city.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A new work about what happened in Kern County in the 1930s defines an era and explores a formative event in California’s – and the nation’s – history.
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Ironically this is exactly what was done to Israel in their most formative event, the Exodus.
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Migdal argue that the 1834 Palestinian Arab revolt was a formative event, in that it forged a unity among disparate groups against a common enemy: the various classes and clans who fought in it are precisely those that reemerged later to constitute the Palestinian people.
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It is one of the most popular fringe events in British politics and was a formative event in the lives of many British political leaders, allegedly Michael Foot amongst them.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A new work about what happened in Kern County in the 1930s defines an era and explores a formative event in California’s – and the nation’s – history.
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Their expulsion from Brazil by the Portuguese and Brazilians in 1654 was a formative event of Brazilian national identity.
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In January 1969, a blowout at this field produced the infamous Santa Barbara Oil Spill, a formative event for the modern environmental movement.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The Exodus? the deliverance of God’s people from oppression is the formative event in the life of the people of Israel? much like the story of the Mayflower is for Americans.
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The formative event for the brothers was witnessing their mother and several other people being chainsaw – butchered by a drug dealer and being locked in a cargo container for two days with the dismembered corpses, the floor covered in blood.
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A formative event in Fell Running history is the Lake District Mountain Trial, inaugurated in 1952.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

) In Batman Begins, the formative event in Bruce Wayne’s life is the murder of his unambiguously good parents.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Had Constantine chosen to adopt Judaism over Christianity, a similar formative event such as Nicea would have probably occurred within the Jewish community, giving rise to a set and organized number of orthodox principles ruling out alternative readings of the Torah, Midrash, Targum and tradition, including Christianity.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A new work about what happened in Kern County in the 1930s defines an era and explores a formative event in California’s – and the nation’s – history.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A new work about what happened in Kern County in the 1930s defines an era and explores a formative event in California’s – and the nation’s – history.
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In Wikipedia:

Many former students return to help teach the class or aid with the major exercises, and often describe the class as a highly formative event in their lives.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It plays a central role in the formative event of the Israelite people, when they were delivered out of the slavery of Egypt in the exodus.
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A formative event was his singing performance at his school’s annual Speech Night in December 1926 none of his family were present, and the sense of loneliness he felt that night remained with him throughout his life.
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At eight years old he attended the opening of the Nrburgring racing circuit, a formative event to which he later attributed his enthusiasm for engineering.
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Queried on 2013-05-18.