Sentence examples for make pivotal from inspiring English sources

Sehorn's abilities as a cover cornerback and his instincts to make pivotal plays have made it possible for the Giants to take risks in other parts of the field, while leaving Sehorn alone to patrol his portion of the field.

Empowered by forward genetics, research using Caenorhabditis elegans has continued to make pivotal contributions to discover conserved regulators and pathways for presynaptic development.

The series, in which the character of Irene was made pivotal, nearly did not get made.

Stanton Gets Bypassed The left-hander Mike Stanton has been about as reliable in the postseason as Mariano Rivera, making pivotal appearances the last three years.

The big swing for the Knicks was provided by two veterans, Chandler and Anthony, as each made pivotal plays in the post.

Between them, they made pivotal contributions both to age-old problems such as what we can be said to know, how we can make advances in our knowledge, and how we should be governed, and to contemporary puzzles about the limits of language and sense, and what lies beyond those limits.

Roman sanitary engineering and military medicine made pivotal contributions.

A throng of thirtysomethings made pivotal plays Sunday to rescue their teams in Week 3, showing that occasionally experience and craftiness trump fresh legs.

NFκB signalling makes pivotal contributions to the induction of IL-6 expression, and the activity as well as nuclear retention of NFκB subunits is tightly regulated by reversible acetylation.

Note that the "multiple-paths model" (Zultan et al., 2012) also predicts that A will be held more responsible in Situation 3 than in Situation 4. The multiple-paths model assigns full responsibility to pivotal players (Situation 4) and, given that there is only one way to make A pivotal in Situation 3, makes the same prediction as the structural model in this case.

Two changes are required to make A pivotal, namely changing C and D. Similarly, a minimum of two changes are needed to make C pivotal, for example, changing D and A. However, note that there is an important asymmetry between A and C. Whereas there is only one way to make A pivotal (through changing C and D), there are multiple ways to make C pivotal (through, e.g., changing D and A or D and B).