Sometimes he views the current challenge as the natural culmination of his life.
Slow-moving events had reached the natural culmination that had been expected.
Last night's debate in Richmond was the natural culmination of a campaign season that has been played out on television talk shows and other populist forums.
In the simple conversionist view, Christianity is the natural, necessary culmination of Jewish history.
"It just seemed like the natural culmination to a natural event."
In some circles the dumb network is regarded as a natural culmination of technological progress in network technology.
But killing is the natural culmination of the pains and pleasures of the hunt, at least if you're a better shot than I am.
The Second Coming will be a natural culmination of the process of world evangelization, rather than a revolutionary event that brings sudden and dramatic change.
The pagan custom of furnished burial may have reached a natural culmination as Christianity began to make its mark.
They looked wonderful everywhere, but it is in Paris that they can be seen as the natural culmination of Chagall's Russian years.