Sentence examples for vital segment from inspiring English sources

Certain algae, especially planktonic (i.e., floating or drifting) forms, constitute a vital segment of food chains.

The new process, together with Kate Gleason's effective promotion, put the Gleason firm solidly in the forefront of a vital segment of the machine-tool business.

The flapper-nozzle pilot stage, whose performance can be deteriorated by the generated flow cavitation phenomenon, is a vital segment in achieving precise control of electrohydraulic servo-valves.

Now, however, the Pataki administration has proposed a new tax break, intended not for the blue-chip companies that have dominated the New York City economy, but for a vital segment of the fast-growing Internet industry.

Jackson Browne's song was a breezy tune about feckless love back when hitchhiking was a way of life, gas was in the 30-cents-a-gallon range and Winslow's slice of Route 66 was still a vital segment of the way west.

Granted, Chocolate City is, as Tommie Henderson '95 put it, a "very vital part of the African-American population as well as a very vital segment of the whole MIT community" [ Entire Community Should Handle Racism," March 19]; but, it nonetheless surprises us that this group should be the one apparently handling the investigation into the matter.

Yesterday, an exhibition run by the British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London showed that, by sharing vital segments, the jigsaw of how the 500BC friezes fitted together could be recreated for the first time in centuries.

For all the attention to Mr. Edwards's Southern roots, Mr. Kerry's aides said that his strongest appeal was likely to be among rural and independent voters, two of the most vital segments of the electorate this year, because of his upbringing in a small North Carolina town and his political identity as a Southern Democrat.

The vitals are segmented adaptively using a Kalman filter to reflect a potentially nonstationary periodicity of signals.

In that last segment, vital in wireless devices because flash holds data after the power is switched off, Samsung has even surpassed Intel.

All the buzz aside, however, Tuesday is likely to be another wasted opportunity for a vital and growing segment of the American voting population to flex its muscles.