Sentence examples similar to pivotal to avoid from inspiring English sources

Some infections are life-long once established, for example, by HIV and HSV-1, and therefore innate immunity is pivotal to avoiding the unfavorable consequences of infection of the host.

And when a truce was proposed to avoid the pivotal confrontation, both men said no.

The Desolation Center shows managed to avoid the pivotal moment when festivals for the counterculture shift and become mainstream, inevitably altering their feel and purpose.

A pivotal reaction is stomatal closure to avoid water loss by transpiration.

But his subdued tone suggested the pains that Mr. Gore has taken to avoid alienating a pivotal ally, organized labor, which opposes the accord.

Since high stress levels may have long-term consequences on an individuals' fitness (e.g., Beehner et al. 2005), mechanisms to avoid conflicts are pivotal.

Alan Dye later described to me the "pivotal moment" when he and Ive decided "to avoid the edge of the screen as much as possible".

Martin Landau was enthusiastic about accepting the pivotal role of Abe Karatz as a means to avoid typecasting.

The second set of recommendations is aimed specifically at African-American leandrs and intellectuals because I believe that they have a pivotal role to play if we are to avoid more serious racial strife in the future.

The latter is of pivotal importance in this type of studies to avoid disturbance of the physiological conditions in the gut, leading to interference with the effects of the intervention.

Riders to the fore of the bunch control the pace to keep themselves safe, while stragglers must time their sprints to perfection to avoid being eliminated at the pivotal moments.