Sentence examples for pivotal terms from inspiring English sources

The Scot nevertheless completed the task with a cold intensity which was encouraging and which made him talk of the performance in pivotal terms.

The jury in the retrial of Charles Schwarz, the former police officer charged with taking part in the assault of Abner Louima, finished its third day of deliberations yesterday by requesting dictionary definitions of pivotal terms in the indictment.

Paying attention to such poverty traps, along with the trade-offs between short-term coping and long-term adaptation strategies, is pivotal in terms of sustainable livelihood.

"Grants are pivotal in terms of this movement," Ms. Cohn said.

Politically, there has been a shift that could prove pivotal in terms of the quarter of the electorate that identifies as Catholic.

I think that decision was pivotal, in terms of setting a precedent that countries need to protect the ecologically rich, vast swaths of the sea from exploitation.

"The commission's role is pivotal in terms of the selection of the five members and then over time, the support it gives for its actions," said Gary Gensler, a former Treasury undersecretary in the Clinton administration and adviser to the Senate Banking Committee as it wrote the law.

We built this day up to be pivotal in terms of the series and it is likely to be the case.

Since further modifications and genetic engineering over phage was pivotal in terms of tuning the assembly geometry and chromophore distances [103], the authors have noticed that the ordered coat protein of M13 phage can serve as a template guiding the interaction between pigments.

Estefan was pivotal in terms of Latino music and Moreno migrated from Puerto Rico and became the star of "West Side Story", along with winning numerous awards.

While the Winter Games attracts fewer viewers than the Summer, due in part to their being fewer countries participating, they are no less pivotal in terms of how they define an Olympic host population's emotional attachment to its Games.