Sentence examples for hinge point from inspiring English sources

"We celebrate a hinge point of history, with the inauguration of our first African-American president of the United States.

Obama's residual force plan makes 2015 the hinge point for the future of the US presence in Afghanistan that 2014 had been until now.

For various reasons, I expect historians to look back at 2012 as a hinge point, between a quarter century which – if business thought about such things at all – considered the sustainability agenda a matter of corporate citizenship and social responsibility and the coming quarter century which, I believe, will increasingly view the challenge as one of system change.

As she puts it in her foreword to the 40th anniversary edition, "I did the best I could, working at the hinge point, the moment the change was happening, when what I wrote was part of the change that was happening".

Point points the way: from turningpoint to talking point to hinge point to Malcolm Gladwell's tipping point to a recent, jocular Wall Street Journal headline over a "reefer" (front-page promotion of an article inside) about advanced training for bartenders, "the economy's tippling point".

The annulus is measured during early systole, with the valve leaflets open, from the hinge point of the right coronary leaflet to the hinge point of the non-coronary leaflet.

Wiliam (2011b) proposed to use "range-finding questions" and "hinge-point questions" to assess what students already know at the beginning of, or during, the lesson.

After all, what is really asked by teachers as a range-finding or hinge-point question and the problems in the exit pass worksheets matters most for what information about students' learning can be elicited.

When this hinge-point in human history is remembered, there will be far more sympathy for the people who took to the streets and rioted than for the people who stayed silently in their homes.

In a statement, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry said the resolution "could be a hinge-point in the tortured three years of a Syria crisis bereft of hope".

A number of Wnt pathway components are expressed in the early optic cup and later restricted to the retina rim at the fold-back hinge-point (Fuhrmann et al., 2000; Liu et al., 2003, 2006, 2007; Cho and Cepko, 2006; Trimarchi et al., 2009).