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A menu from the early 90s shows dishes carefully hinged between the luxurious and the rustic.
At times it has hinged on little more than semantic argument over whether the conflict was "war" (were the Aboriginal fighters guerrilla warriors?) and whether the locally raised militias, police and British military units qualified as an Australian defence force.
Mick Jagger features in a poster protesting against the Rolling Stones's arrest and brief jailing for drugs – a national scandal that hinged on a stitch-up between the police and the News of the World.
This album's 11th-hour manifestation – even its uppercase title, BEYONCÉ, looked like someone jumping out from behind a bush with a klaxon – meant that it was too late for inclusion on most end-of-year lists, but as well as leapfrogging music critics, its release depended on precisely zero airplay, hinged on not one TV appearance, and was not even teased online.
While the 18th- and 19th-century trade in body parts hinged largely on an export market (as well as on private collectors: stories abound of Aboriginal skulls adorning drawing room mantles in pastoral homesteads), in the 1900s Australian institutions were amassing very big collections, too.
The second set hinged on the third game when Murray held serve from 0-40 with five brilliant points in a row to lead 2-1.
He sliced up the electorate into hyphenated identities and brought out a different, obviously inauthentic self to appeal to each group, when in fact both of his victories hinged on stark policy differences.
The last of these mental expansions occurred in the early 1920s, and it hinged upon an earlier discovery that was made by a computer not a machine, but a woman.In 1895 Henrietta Leavitt became part of a team of women who were employed as "computers" by the Harvard College Observatory.
His industrialisation programme, which hinged on the creation of a "national" steel producer and carmaker, proved an expensive flop.
The recent ruling, given by a three-man appellate bench in Colorado, strongly endorsed Mr Clinton's "roadless rule".The ruling hinged largely on the legal definition of wilderness, which in America is a stringently protected area, where most economic activity is banned.
Its bellicose legal strategy, run by a close associate of Mr Purcell's, recently yielded a $1.5 billion court defeat that had far less to do with the merits of the claims against the bank than with a judge's perception that its defence hinged on burying evidence.None of this might have mattered.
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The word "hinged" primarily functions as a verb in the past tense or as a past participle , indicating that something depended on or was conditional on a specific factor. As Ludwig AI confirms, this is a common and grammatically sound usage, as demonstrated in various examples provided.
Expression frequency: Very common
