"vital segments" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to important or crucial portions or parts of something. Example: The manager emphasized the importance of completing all vital segments of the project on time in order to meet the deadline.
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.
Certain algae, especially planktonic (i.e., floating or drifting) forms, constitute a vital segment of food chains.
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.
It took a long time, but the settlement between the Federal Trade Commission and Intel, the microchip company, on Wednesday stands a reasonably good chance of curtailing the company's tactics to keep its dominance of the microprocessor market and of bolstering competition and innovation in this vital segment of the economy.
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.
Watkin was determined to build this section as a vital segment in his vision of a London Manchester railway, and proposed that if the MR would not build this section, the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway would build the line themselves and lease it to the MR. The MR board refused to have anything to do with the scheme.
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.
