Sentence examples for trial hinges on from inspiring English sources

The trial hinges on the young man's state of mind when he pulled the trigger.

The trial hinges on the question of whether Mubarak or Adly ordered police to use lethal force against the protesters, or if Mubarak took any action to prevent bloodshed once it began.

Much of the trial hinges on whether American and Afghan officials approved his detentions and interrogations in a Kabul house, and on whether he stopped multiple terrorist plots, or invented them.

The trial of Mr. Weberman, which began on Nov. 26, was a difficult one because there was no physical evidence; the trial hinged on the credibility of Mr. Weberman, who is well connected and powerful in his community, and that of a young woman who had been shunned for being a rebellious teen.

The trial hinged on the civil rights question of whether California's voters had a right under the US Constitution to make a moral judgment by discriminating against sexual orientation.

One case, the McMartin Preschool trial, hinged on nine young victims' memories of molestation and ritual abuse — memories that they had supposedly forgotten and then, after being interviewed, recovered.

The prosecution of the senior executives in the yearlong trial hinged on the question of whether the executives had held back reserves to improve the company's financial results in later financial quarters.

Considering the sentencing portion of the trial hinges entirely on whether or not the jurors can feel sympathy for the Boston Bomber, his testimony could either make or break the case.

Since phase IV trials typically aim at informing a clinical decision, the value of a phase IV non-inferiority trial hinges also on its clinical relevance.

None of this is, in fact, new: Oscar Wilde's trials hinged on the courts' understanding of natural love and unnatural vice.

Much of the trial will hinge on a conversation between the two officers, one on the ground and one on the phone switchboard, and whether or not they discussed how dangerous the substation was.