On the answer to that question may hinge the answer to whether the latest financial crisis will pass with little impact on the real economy, or whether it will pull down all the parts of the economy that enabled most investors to have a good year while their brokers were suffering.
This unexpected relationship might be explained by a targeted Department of Elections mailing, suggesting that the initial impact of voter ID laws may hinge on efforts to notify voters likely to be affected.
However, governments are not rushing to raise protectionist barriers, and many slowly are accepting that, in the long term, survival of a national airline industry may hinge on access to foreign capital and a more rational use of airline assets through international alliances and mergers.
But the Grand Inga project may hinge on the capacity to export energy to richer markets to ensure it receives financing from banks.
More than public security is at stake: the success of his presidency, in fact, may hinge on his ability to bring to heel La Bonaerense, the nickname for the force in the Buenos Aires Province, which is home to nearly 40percentt of Argentina's 39 million people.
President Obama's second-term priorities — the deficit, gun safety and immigration — may hinge on his ability to inject himself into negotiations to just the right degree.
On the eve of a potential confirmation battle for secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel that may hinge on his opposition to the Iraq war, most Americans continue to think the war was a mistake and was not worth fighting, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll.
The issue is important to Governor Bush, the president's younger brother, whose political future may hinge on his ability to stop this and other new drilling off the Florida coast.
And now somebody there has finally said, 'We have to do this because it's a new era.'" The length of the walkout may hinge on the answers to two crucial questions: How long can the U.A.W. afford to stay out?
Now Mr. Lemaine, 28, is among thousands of noncitizens whose fate may hinge on a case to be argued on Wednesday before the United States Supreme Court, in a challenge to the way the government interprets immigration laws about drug-related convictions.
