Sentence examples for whose pivotal from inspiring English sources

"Larry deserves better," Mr. Itliong said of his father, Larry Itliong, the fiercely determined, polyglot Filipino labor leader whose pivotal role in the farm labor movement continues to reside in history's shadows.

The increasing body of art-historical and critical writing was reflected in the Salon criticism of Denis Diderot, whose pivotal role as a commentator on the contemporary art world anticipated that of John Ruskin in Victorian England.

There is possibly an additional irony: that a potter has potted a portrait of a man whose pivotal moment, the first hammer blow to the vase, came when, in his BMW, he did the very opposite of potter.

The deficiency covers Chester, the narrator; his father, whose pivotal anti-Semitism, suddenly expressed, is never explained; Chester's mother, defined only by the wreaths she makes; his brother, Danny, who brings little more than his name to the tale; and Chester's Jewish girlfriend, whose relationship and later marriage to him is unhinged by the poison of the anti-Semitism.

UConn was the overwhelming favorite to crush Georgia Tech, whose two pivotal players, B. J. Elder and Isma'il Muhammad, were injured.

The first sign of trouble was a desperately ill girl in San Diego (this was Lauren Rudolph, who died in late December 1992, and in whose memory a pivotal 1996 California food safety act is named).

To turn that mood against the very regimes -- particularly Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt -- whose cooperation is pivotal to America's antiterrorism coalition and whom Mr. Gerges and others see as Mr. bin Laden's real target.

The most aggressive White House lobbying, however, was directed at Mr. Putin, whose country is pivotal to a separate resolution on the use of force against Iraq that the United States is seeking from the United Nations Security Council.

David G. Trager, a federal judge in Brooklyn whose rulings were pivotal in a racially charged case in Crown Heights and in the first civil suit to challenge the Bush administration's practice of sending terrorism suspects to countries that employ torture, died on Wednesday at his home in Brooklyn.

Ms Christophersen said Holby City Woman was a floating voter whose support was "pivotal" in winning the election.

Meanwhile one player hoping to catch the eye of the Ireland selectors is fly-half Gareth Steenson, whose kicking was pivotal to victory at Parc y Scarlets.