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Перевод: pivotal

[прилагательное]
центральный; осевой; кардинальный; основной

Тезаурус:

1. Nottingham played a pivotal role during the tumultuous beginnings of the English Civil War in 1642.
2. This collusion between writers and critics was not deliberate, let alone coordinated in any systematic fashion, yet, in cultural and intellectual terms, the principal outcome was to revolutionize the literary landscape by initiating new, evaluative criteria to chart the movement from realism to modernism: Flaubert is also considered by Barthes to be the pivotal figure in this transformation towards an apparently less transparent writing.
3. Tiny hints of The Power and The Glory and the later brilliance of The Honorary Consul flicker here and there, but the event pivotal to Shakespeare's novel also recalls - perhaps unconsciously - the miracle at the close of The End of the Affair.
4. Since the PLO, composed of both accommodationist and rejectionist groups, could not accept either without damaging its internal unity, Jordan seemed pivotal to any settlement for the West Bank.
5. Hindsight may show this to have been a pivotal meeting.
6. Britain must ensure that the Community plays a pivotal role in the construction of a new security order in Europe, following the democratisation of Eastern and Central Europe.
7. For the ordinary civilian politicians of Bharatpur, these complex family questions are tending to obscure what is looming as a tense election battle in a pivotal seat that both sides badly need to win.
8. And for many women, a pivotal factor is the role of the phone.
9. Much of the pain centres upon the LEA; a structure which was pivotal and which is rapidly and rather messily ceasing to be so.
10. wolf suggests that it is this sector that provides the catalyst for rebellion and he shows how, in six major revolutions in the world, it is the middle peasantry who have formed the pivotal group for peasant action.
11. Robots and the Galactic Empire remained the pivotal themes of Asimov's novels.
12. Because of its pivotal role in sustaining the apartheid system, education has always been a central political issue, and is perceived by all parties to the conflict as a terrain over which political struggle occurs.
13. The pivotal notion of Spandau prison being pulled down and replaced by a supermarket was one which greatly excited Brenton, signifying at a stroke both Western Europe's descent into cynical consumerism and the wiping out of history.