The phrase "pivots upon" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe something that depends upon a particular factor or issue. You might use it in a sentence such as: "Our success in this project pivots upon the willingness of our team to work together."
The play pivots upon a single dramatic conceit – that Wallis, now approaching death, has forgotten every single thing about Edward.
This idea, which pivots upon the importance of the individual, not the group, might make firefighting more dangerous than it has to be.
Willem Dafoe (who can also be heard in Fantastic Mr Fox) and John C Reilly give it their high-camp best as the good-hearted bloodsuckers at war with the more menacing "Vampaneze", an idea successfully mined in Twilight, which pivots upon the seductive concept of "vegetarian" (and therefore chaste) vampires.
Printed biannually, its content pivots upon the imaginations, creativity and spirituality of women.
5 A rationalization of the rate enhancement achieved by an enzyme pivots upon an understanding of its transition state.
The man on the ledge is but the pivot upon which a tumbling drama builds.
For Shorto, the pivot upon which the old world yielded to the new was the genius of Descartes, the philosopher who gave us the doubting, analytical, newly independent modern self.
Because men sometimes could be away from home for months or years at a time, a married woman's ability to maintain a household pivoted upon her freedom to execute contracts.
But much of the success of the Percussion Concerto will also pivot upon Garland's rapport with Percy, for whom the piece has been specifically tailored: in addition to a bespoke drum kit, Percy plays marimba and hang drum – a metal instrument, shaped like a flying saucer, that has been tuned to a south-east Asian scale for the Concerto.
The brunt of the pre-series speculation has centered on Lopez, an All-Star center, the only member of the starting five who has never appeared in a postseason game, and the 7-foot pivot upon which the team's playoff success is likely to hinge.
Thereafter the screw is tightened with the arrival of a ne'er-do-well nephew and out of Ellen's anguished battle against his shrewd probing and against the talkative habits of the sisters develops her final decision.It is an enormously difficult play because its suspense is pivoted upon a rising scale of climaxes that need to be accented with unerring subtlety.
