But so often it does not occur to the man in a pivotal position to question the possibility that at sixty or seventy he can keep steadily in touch with a generation whose ideas are controlled by men twenty years younger.
We may question whether women have as yet had sufficient experience in the world of business to cope successfully with the material questions of a pivotal editorial position.
One of the pivotal points in the Orthodox theory of evil is that of moral inability.
Orthodoxy dwells upon sin and salvation: these are its two pivotal doctrines.
The pivotal points of this system are sin and salvation.
The premature opening of the campaign was certain to make Austria pivotalin European politics once again.
Meanwhile their allies on the Sound were to seize the pivotal points there.
Perhaps it is rather obvious," he said, and he made a long glide over the deck to the feet of the pivotal girl, anticipating another young man who was rapidly advancing from the opposite quarter.
She bore in a sort of scientific patience his attentions to the pivotal girl, and Miss Triscoe's indifference to him, in which a less penetrating scrutiny could have detected no change from meal to meal.
Burnamy may be merely amusing himself, or he may be consoling himself; but in either case I think the pivotal girl has as much right to him as Miss Triscoe.
The pivotal girl showed herself at the corner of the music-room, as she had done the day before.
The pivotal girl came in sight, tilting and turning in a rare moment of isolation at the corner of the music-room, and he bowed abruptly, and hurried off to join her.
There was no sign of flirtation among them; he would have given much for a moment of the pivotal girl, to see whether she could have brightened those gloomy surfaces with her impartial lamp.
What is the matter with a little compassion for the pivotal girl?
Burnamy came away from seeing the pivotal girl and her mother off on the train which they were taking that evening for Frankfort and Hombourg, and strolled back through the Weimar streets little at ease with himself.
He represented the Adventurers in the matter of patents only, but Weston was in authority as to the pivotal matter of shipping.
Even the pivotal discovery of "internal respiration" is not original with Mr. Harris.
He was the pivotal man between Nettleton and Finney in the last generation, and his children are the standard-bearers of revival religion in the present.
As a mere personal choice, a majority of the convention would have preferred Seward; but in the four pivotal States there were many voters who believed Seward's antislavery views to be too radical.
But there was a chance that one or more of these four pivotal free States might cast its vote for Douglas and popular sovereignty.
When the delegates of the pivotal States were interviewed, they frankly confessed that they could not carry their States for Seward, and that would mean certain defeat if he were the nominee for President.
These pivotal States all lay adjoining slave States, and their public opinion was infected with something of the undefined dread of "abolitionism.
It was almost self-evident that in the coming November election victory or defeat would hang upon the result in the four pivotal States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Illinois.
She swung the chair about with a pivotal motion, as if she were addressing an assemblage instead of a single listener, and then, bethinking herself of a clinching illustration, she called aloud to her daughter to bear witness.
Another drawback is that as the whole pivotal pressure in a turn is borne by the toe iron, when a B.
When getting toe irons fitted to one's own Skis, it is wise to ask for strong ones, as the soft irons give too freely to the pivotal action of the feet in turns and tend to be constantly opening and becoming loose.
The pivotal rod 3 and the rod 2, against which the pendants rested, were sometimes, like the pendant rods, made of carbon and sometimes of metal, such as brass.
It will be noted that the pivotal end of the hook lever is made with a slot instead of a hole as is the customary practice.
Formal education is, however, the chief means by which society inculcates into younger members those values, traditions, and customs which its controlling elements regard as of the most pivotal importance.
Sprains or injuries of lateral ligaments of the extremities, ringbone and certain foot affections, are made manifest by a side to side movement or a pivotal movement.
What is the great pivotal truth of the divine plan?
The cross of Christ is the great pivotal truth of the divine arrangement, from which radiate the hopes of men.
For thousands of years divine wisdom has been working out his plan concerning man; and the ransom sacrifice is the very pivotal part of that plan.
The radicals who have oppressed the Negroes of the South and sent them North, sent them forth with heart burnings, and through the pivotal states of the North they are ever on guard to turn the tide of battle against your section.
What welder of steel can beat into one the discordant soul forces of willing Negroes and unwilling whites, the really pivotal point of the problem?
It is easy to see that both of the pivotal moral ideals, i.
These two principles have been the pivotal points of Japanese ethics.
New York, as has been its wont before and since, proved the pivotal State.
There and then was fought out one of the pivotal battles of the ages.
He was the earnest advocate of the adoption of the Federal Constitution, and his papers during that pivotal struggle have justly given him high place in the list of American statesmen.
The explanation for this probably lies in the fact that Indiana is a pivotal State in politics and the parties are so evenly divided that the elections are equally apt to be carried by either party.
It will be perceived that inasmuch as in the arrangement shown, the pivotal connections= = (No Model.
Only by the exercise of self-guidance and intelligent self-direction can that inalienable, supreme, pivotal power be expressed.
On this great fundamental and pivotal point new light has been thrown by Lord Bertrand Dawson, the physician of the King of England.
The Birth Control movement has allied itself with science, and no small part of its present propaganda is to awaken the interest of scientists to the pivotal importance to civilization of this instrument.
In still another field science and scientific method now emphasize the pivotal importance of Birth Control.
And until women are awakened to theirpivotal function in the creation of a new civilization, that new era will remain an impossible and fantastic dream.
If we can summon the bravery to do this, we shall best be serving the pivotal interests of civilization.
Here was a pivotal point in the life of Liszt, and the Church came near then, claiming him for her own.
These strong men, sent at the pivotal points in history, are born out of a sore need--they are sent from God.
These selections were made to secure, if possible, the electoral vote of the two doubtful and pivotal States.
McLean, of the United States Supreme Court, was strongly favored by many, because it was felt that he alone of the candidates mentioned could carry Pennsylvania, which had already been figured as the pivotal State.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pivotal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
