For the past 6 years, hopes for a democratic transformation have rested on Morgan Tsvangirai, a high-school dropout and trade-union boss.
As Mr Elop put it to the BBC: "This is a new dawn for Nokia, it's the beginning of the next step in our journey of transformation, so a lot rests on it.
What are you innovating?" Uber's transformation of the global taxi industry rests on a theorem.
While the dedication of individual HEWs is vital, the wider transformation of healthcare provision in Ethiopia rests on visionary policymaking, backed up with support from donors, and strong partnerships with NGOs and the private sector.
The idea of a "cultural attractor" rests on the assumption that transformations are not equally probable, and instead are biased in some direction.
The whole social and political legitimacy of the Communist Party's regime rests on continuing to deliver this high-growth transformation of the economy.
You can see the change, too, in President Bush's Faith-Based and Community Initiative, which rests on the idea that the worst-off may need a moral and spiritual transformation more than they need material aid.
But "Beatriz at Dinner" finally rests on Hayek's shoulders, and while the actress may be Hollywood royalty, her transformation goes well beyond Beatriz's flat bangs and ponytail.
Just consider any real knowledge: truth rests on an intuition of its ground (intuiti niti, 1 394.3 4), and if one wants to go beyond tautological transformations, ground of truth will differ from truth grounded.
It rests on a familiar Hollywood story (retold just last year in The Artist) of the industry's sudden, seismic transformation from silent pictures to sound in the late twenties.
