We'll leave pivotal -- and watershed, seminal, sea change, groundbreaking, transformational, etc. -- to hype and history.
Ohio: On Monday, I left the pivotal Buckeye State as leaning Obama, citing the need for more data.
Unfortunately, it has been reluctant to bring them to justice immediately, opting instead to leave this pivotal responsibility to the government that will take power after elections in October.
Experimental models are essential tools in the development and evaluation of novel treatment options, but the preclinical model of renal ischemia-reperfusion injury is limited to the retrieval of (very) early functional data, leaving the pivotal long-term outcome unknown.
Messiaen, who wrote the libretto, left out the pivotal story of the saint's conversion, explaining that "sin is not interesting".
The score was 85 for San Antonio, 78 for New Jersey, a couple of minutes left in the pivotal Game 5 of the N.B.A. finals, the Spurs controlling it for what seemed like forever, without being able to salt away a 3-2 series lead with two chances to win it back home.
Whether taking the form of time-warp science fiction like "La Jetée" or archive-rich historical surveys like "A Grin Without a Cat" (1977), about the fate of the New Left after the pivotal year 1968, most of his films involve a kind of time travel.
One of his closest aides has described the prospect of a hard-left pivotal vote in the new parliament as "our worst nightmare".
The veteran left guard Glenn Parker, a pivotal leader of the Giants' revamped offensive line, had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee today after the knee locked up as Parker was preparing to take the practice field.
The team that led Cloud Foundry moved on to Pivotal or left the company.
Last season's finale left us at a pivotal moment in the series.
