fateful moment

In a fateful moment, she became a single parent of four babies—and was pregnant with twins.

The authors pleaded with him to embrace the fateful moment and "take the path of giants."

And now had come a fateful moment in the history of Roma terna.

This was a loss to the foe of possibly two thousand men, a serious weakening at a fateful moment.

Aware that the fateful moment was at hand, the Sioux nerved themselves for the desperate attempt to rescue the Ogalalas.

And now the fateful moment for candidates for promotion was imminent.

Crediton was once, for a brief but fateful moment, the focus of a very serious movement.