It's clearly one of the cruxes of the progressive movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Avard: The Kos And The System: "Blogfather" Markos Moulitsas On Digital-Era Activism And His New Book] Reference

Scratch that-but there would be hundreds of other such cruxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spock Must Die]

Here is one of the cruxes of the Great Presidential Speech of 2009.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayhill Fowler: Did President Obama Bend History in Oslo?] Reference

I think the pointing out of textual cruxes does not sink to the level of the Authorship Controversy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Street Preacher Arrested in England for Public Statements That Homosexuality is a Sin] Reference

There are some culture-war issues, like the fight over abortion, that are genuine moral cruxes and difficult to resolve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Right] Reference

I finished up The Eye of the World over the weekend and came across two chapters that really stand out as cruxes of the series.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eye Closes and Loial Friends Meet] Reference

And even at that, diving beneath the obvious surface for possible cruxes and the context of the issue, is fought like The Battle of Britain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The comics, balloon boy and as ignorant as we want to be.] Reference

The interpretation of these expression is, as usually with Aristotelian cruxes, very controversial, but a useful way of looking at it is as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Substance] Reference

The illness tends to have its own independent story line, with its own narrative cruxes: procedures, setbacks, treatments, remissions, exacerbations.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Diagnosis] Reference

There were all sorts of legal cruxes to be thought out, not only regarding the taking of life, even of a monstrosity in human form, but also of property.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lair of the White Worm] Reference

KD makes a personal choice based on his personal conviction and decides not spend money to support such an individual, that is the cruxes of his comment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Fish With Commies] Reference

As Shelley, we belabor cruxes in life or literature, choosing different paths through the composition of a manuscript or through the mysterious events in Wales, where Shelley either was or was not attacked by an armed assailant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rethinking the Early Shelley] Reference

While analyzing hundreds of these textual cruxes, Neil and I made it our policy and goal to retain the reading found in Shelley's copy-text, even where all earlier editors had emended it, except where we could convince each other that the original reading cannot not be justified within the contexts of its immediate syntactical unit and the larger structures of stanza, canto, or poem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shelley Comes of Age] Reference

Ishtar's request and Gilgamesh's denial is one of the interpretive cruxes of the Gilgamesh Epic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ketuvim: the Writings of James R. Getz Jr.] Reference

There were all sorts of legal cruxes to be thought out, not only regarding the taking of life, even of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lair of the White Worm] Reference

That relationship, forever young Remy with a woman possibly old enough to be his earthly grandmother, is one of the major cruxes of the story.    From Wordnik.com.  [All articles at Blogcritics] Reference

Some of these cruxes, Sir Walter tells us, could not be solved by the examiner, and were laid before Boz himself, with a copy of the questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pickwickian Studies] Reference

Two full days were packed with special sessions on everything from textual cruxes in Austen novels to lessons in the dances of the Regency period.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

With an austere economy that must have seemed parsimony had Hawthorne’s vision and his style been less rich, he discarded all but the essential cruxes of his argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference

He was an enthusiastic student and had led the cruxes of Whitney-G and Pinnacle Gully (we did ice too) as well as climbed the Grand Teton with me by the time he was 13.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Other skiers, including Kit DesLauriers, managed to ski only sections of the descent or were either assisted by rappelling or carried their skis on foot across the cruxes of the route.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Financial News] Reference

The vital element missing from these basic elucidations is any encouragement for the reader to think about how true or otherwise they are, to grasp their meaning by testing examples and overcoming logical cruxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

So, apparently, do virtual clones, such as Voltaire and Emilie du Chatelet, who worked all day together, discussing intellectual cruxes, then went and read each other's manuscripts, leaving little comments in the margins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

I have indeed endeavoured (for instance in the analysis of perception as distinguished from sensation) to impart some rudiments of psychology in the course of my aesthetical explanation, and I have avoided, as much as possible, misleading the reader about such fearful complexes and cruxes as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics] Reference

It’s got a little fat from the oil, some sugar, and sodium from the soy sauce, so there’s your three cruxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taiwanese Street Food-Style Grilled Corn] Reference

One of the schizophrenic cruxes of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [GraniteGrok] Reference