Sentence examples for a crucial slice from inspiring English sources

They represent a crucial slice of America's artistic past and present.

In the past week, a Swiss-based tax exile announced the closure of the Grangemouth petrochemicals plant, a crucial slice of industrial Scotland, after provoking a dispute with his workforce.

Even though fact-checking columnists have questioned many of the details, the overriding message seems to be hitting home with a crucial slice of voters who can still be persuaded.

Huff buys the debt of distressed companies, and he had a crucial slice of Adelphia's.

It also means a crucial slice of California's tax base is gone or leaving just as the state is facing a $52 billion deficit, double the next worst, New York.

But that argument ignores a crucial slice of the market: the growing ranks of short-term collectors -- or buyers who don't care about the value of their art.

That is, trying to get a better reading on one crucial slice of the economy to guide policy and perhaps behavior.

The question is how Obama can do better with the crucial slice of the electorate that he hasn't been able to capture.

Are we secretly hoping a stray twill of glossy cardboard will slice a crucial artery in the arm of the unboxer, and we'll then get to watch as he gurgles and foams and regresses to that farmstead in Missouri where he grew up, while his life trickles away in front of us?

The house, at 748 Jackson Place NW, is one of 98 historical sites in "African American Heritage Trail, Washington, DC," a new guide published by city officials who are hoping to encourage visitors to glimpse a crucial -- and often overlooked -- slice of history in the nation's capital.

He was also chronicling a crucial period of social history in a slice of the South and concocting a canny entertainment, laced generously with schmaltz and sly humor.