"pivotal attribute" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to an important quality or feature of something that is critical to its identity or success. For example: "Good communication is a pivotal attribute of successful teams."
We expected phase synchronization of the right parietal cortices of the two partners given the pivotal role attributed to the right temporoparietal junction in social interaction [31], self-other discrimination and perspective taking [31] [33].
These attributes play pivotal roles when farm households make decisions under different risk scenarios.
Environmental variability and its implications for survival, distribution, movement and life-history attributes are pivotal in understanding organismic ecology and evolution.
The cachectic features of the C26 mouse model have been described earlier by other authors, who attributed a pivotal role for the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-6 in the induction of cachexia (Tanaka et al, 1990; Strassmann et al, 1992a; Tanaka et al, 1993; Soda et al, 1994).
The recurrent themes in his work of identity, alienation, inheritance and lost children can be attributed to this pivotal biographical fact.
To do otherwise, by acknowledging their profound biographical differences as positive attributes in a pivotal election, would be to betray the corporate media's obsession with faux "balance".
Conversely, factors secreted by the VE play pivotal roles that cannot be attributed to the DE in early axis formation, heart formation and the patterning of the anterior nervous system.
Hence, the heightened resistance of IL-6−/– mice cannot be attributed to a pivotal role for IL-17 during infection.
Predicting the outcome of cancer and detecting dependencies among clinical variables or attributes play a pivotal role in cancer diagnosis and therapy.
The fact that non-pivotal players are sometimes attributed more responsibility than pivotal players highlights the importance of criticality considerations for people's attributions.
