"model hinges on" is a perfectly valid and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe an idea or plan that is based or depends on something else. For example, "The success of our marketing model hinges on our ability to capture the attention of our target audience."
It's clear to me that their entire business model hinges on the major market dominance of at least one format.
The advance of this radical new model hinges on creating new cycles of social and economic capital.
The model hinges on the proclivity of dissolved silica to adsorb onto the hydrous surfaces of ferric oxides.
Deedcoin's business model hinges on reducing customer acquisition and marketing costs for their partner agents.
Dell Computer's build-to-order, time-compression model hinges on fast and reliable air-express service.
Its business model hinges on people being comfortable sharing deeply personal information.
The connections between levels of the current model hinge on a small number of parameters.
Further analysis by the Economic Review Group of NICE concluded that the model hinged on the assumption that dronedarone lowers mortality and that regrettably it does not specifically account for a lower rate of hospitalizations related to the drug.
Therefore, the identification of unobserved heterogeneity in single-spell duration models hinges on a misspecification of the functional form of the baseline hazard rate or the functional form of the unobserved heterogeneity (van den Berg 2001).
Our revised model hinges mainly on the superpositional relationships of the Jasper Forest bed and Flattops One sandstones.
First, the models hinge on molecular interactions that are specific to the individual systems and that are not readily apparent from protein sequence features alone.
