(Mr. Robinson went on to produce Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - one of the rap world's seminal acts.)

Regarded as one of the seminal acts of its day, Poco joined Gram Parsons, The Byrds, and The Flying Burrito Brothers in pioneering the country rock sound.

Fiona also co-wrote 40 Ans de Musique au Gibus, which chronicles four decades of seminal musical acts at the famous Paris nightclub.

In a seminal act of culinary revisionism, they rewrote the recipes.

This can be heard in the work of seminal acts like K. Frimpong and Monomono.

Mr. Woodward construes the Nixon pardon as a seminal act of the Ford Presidency, above all an act of loyalty to Nixon.

Perhaps this is the character flaw of someone whose first seminal political act was kneeling on a linoleum floor, saying the rosary with the sixth grade the day John F. Kennedy was killed.

I remarked that the Yosemite grant "in effect" turned Yosemite into a national park - a seminal and symbolic act of conservation.

It went out of its way to bring in shows by seminal acts that hadn't played in Manhattan in decades, even if they were no longer popular enough to sell out the club.

The two of them recruited a few other band members and created around her the seminal act for the band Ton Ton Macoute.