Sentence examples for make them pivotal from inspiring English sources

According to the structural model, both these members get responsibility Resp = 1/2, because for either of them it would take one change to make them pivotal to the team win (i.e., by changing the other member from pass to fail).

Thus, the phylogenetic position of ferns makes them pivotal in the evolutionary history of land plants (Embryophyta), and essential for a comprehensive understanding of the origin and diversification of numerous traits found in seed plant crops and model species, such as rice and Arabidopsis[ 13, 14].

Thus, parallel to the notion that the responsibility assigned to an agent depends on the number of changes needed to make the agent pivotal for the outcome, one could add the condition that the responsibility assigned to pivotal agents depends on the number of changes needed to make them non-pivotal for the outcome.

"That makes them a very pivotal strategic group... It's important I think to talk about why they've moved, what set of forces and what set of issues have caused them to move.

Those screams and the question of who was making them would become pivotal for both the prosecution and the defense, with the implication being that the person screaming was the one being attacked.

The tension builds until the theatergoer must make a pivotal decision about whom to trust, based solely on the voices and what appears on the computer screen.

He credited Giacometti (and sometimes Matisse) with pushing him to make the pivotal decision to abandon his dream of painting and open a gallery instead.

It was not resolved until late last year, with Ms. Greenfield receiving full custody of Rory, including the right to make all pivotal decisions in his upbringing and schooling.

But the consensus yesterday was that the court would like to make some pivotal decisions, and that those decisions, beyond the legal, are more akin to the Gordian knot than any body of legal doctrine.

But the confluence of the diagnosis and the state's election calendar could force Mr. Giuliani to make some pivotal decisions about his Senate candidacy rapidly, and over roughly the same difficult period of time.

While this field is vital for philosophy, philosophy of religion may also make a pivotal contribution to religious studies and theology.