You don't change culture before next week's critical meeting, ad nauseum.

Before a critical meeting planned in Brazil for early 1997, both countries entered a period of unforeseen political events.

"Letting a pack of newsies into a meeting this critical?"

The attack came one day before a critical meeting at the United Nations on the future of Iraq.

The critical meeting with Carter went very badly indeed.

The next critical meeting seems to be imminent.

It was a critical meeting that had been planned months in advance.

His experience over the last two years was considered important at this critical meeting, even though he would be a lame duck.

In critical meetings in London, the companies agreed on a management structure and began to hammer out financial terms.

Luther attended the critical meeting in 1537, but spent most of his time suffering from kidney stones.