Only one half of it was alive after the qualifier Vladimir Voltchkov allowed one pivotal shot to undo his upset chance against Sampras and lost, 7-6 (4), 6-4, 6-4.
While with the Baltimore Orioles two years ago, Armando Benitez allowed a pivotal home run against the Yankees and then on the very next pitch drilled Tino Martinez.
The agreement, brokered by aides to President Obama, overcame a 10-day impasse and would allow a pivotal House committee to resume work on the bill, with an expectation that the panel could approve it later this week.
Mr. Obama praised House Democratic leaders for reaching an agreement Wednesday with fiscally conservative members of the party that will allow a pivotal House committee to resume work on a health reform bill.
We needed a phrase that would allow the pivotal moment to pass smoothly kwithout making me feel compromised or the other person feel rejected.
Onto the roundup! - Author Alice Walker chimed in on this long-running Israel vs. Palestine bruhaha by not allowing her pivotal novel The Color Purple to be translated into Hebrew.
Dennis Cook was charged with three runs without recording an out, and Turk Wendell allowed Pat Burrell's second pivotal home run in two days.
Joe Andrew, national chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said the growing sophistication of polling and other research had allowed strategists to pinpoint pivotal markets with more precision than in the past.
This means more protection for clubs against noise complaints, redevelopment plans (read: luxury flats), and draconian licensing policies that have allowed for spaces as pivotal as The Arches to lose their license on the basis of a handful of isolated incidents.
What angered Martinez was not that Howard had been beaten at his near post by Manchester City's left-back but that David Silva, who was once more the visitors' pivotal figure, was allowed too much space in the build up to the opening goal.
