pivotal role
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpivotalandrole
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pivotal
adjective
uk/ˈpɪv.ə.təl/us/ˈpɪv.ə.t̬əl/
central ...
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role
noun[C]
uk/rəʊl/us/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofpivotalandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The marginalised subject-position of the woman, however, reveals thepivotalroleof the feminine in the narcissistic constructions of male desire and the male self.
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The project co-ordinator played apivotalrolein the establishment and maintenance of the research network.
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Ontologies promise to play apivotalrolefor different semantic-based and semantic-aware applications.
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Because dealing with fair-share complaints is lexically prior to dealing with envy complaints, the mean plays an absolutelypivotalrole.
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In other words, some provinces are more institutionally-endowed than others to play apivotalrolein the intergovernmental fiscal arena.
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Thus, the temporal structure of mother-infant interaction via song does not only emanate from the mother; infants also play apivotalrole.
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Throughout these phases the cercarial tail plays apivotalrole.
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Costs of defence and counter-defence are likely to play topivotalrolein the interaction between organisms and their natural enemies.
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Think tanks have played and continue to play apivotalrolein determining the role of the state in modern day governance.
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Organic matter plays apivotalrolein the soil-water relations of sandy soils.
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If prisoners-of-war played apivotalrolein the wartime struggle for food production so too did schoolchildren.
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In the nineteenth century evangelicalism provided a unifying centre to collegiate education and played apivotalroleinside and outside the classroom.
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Our findings provide support for the notion of a specific sensitivity of the prefrontal cortex to, and apivotalroleof the thalamus in, sleepiness.
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But his account does not consider thepivotalroleof the state in the renovation of clerical subculture.
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Thepivotalroleof political parties as gatekeepers has been emphasised here as well.
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In the echinoderms, peptides released from the jelly coat of eggs play apivotalroleas a signal for such changes.
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Can grandparents continue to play apivotalrolein the intergenerational transfer of resources?
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Prosody, which includes the components of rhythm and intonation, plays apivotalrolein adult speech.
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