Sentence examples for pivotal to avoiding 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.

It was pivotal to his success in avoiding civil war and in establishing a new sense of national solidarity.

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

Years ago, he decided to leave the Air Force to avoid missing "those pivotal moments" in their young lives.

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.