hinge moment

"I don't think there are many countries you could watch this in and feel like you're part of the hinge moment."

We are at a hinge moment for America.

But if not exactly a hinge moment in history, the scandal surrounding Woods is arguably the biggest sports news of the past decade.

This is the hinge moment in President Obama’s long war of attrition against Romney.

Every presidential election matters, but Daniels and Ryan are right to see the 2012 campaign as a potential hinge moment in American domestic politics.

It's worth noting that in his statement on the day he was confirmed by the Senate, Wheeler also deployed the "hinge moment" metaphor.

"We are at a hinge moment in our history," said Cullen Murphy, managing editor of The Atlantic.

For the rate of change of hinge moment with control deflection three factors are required for which additional curves are provided.

Lipstadt presents the trial as a gripping legal drama, as well as a hinge moment in the world’s perception of the Holocaust.

Its frankly unconscionable treatment of the unlucky few caught in the hinge moment of this jarring policy shift, is we are told, a necessary evil.

In the book, Wheeler describes the Civil War as "a hinge moment in American history that could have swung either way.

But if Romney aims to imitate those precedents, he needs to recognize what Clinton and Reagan accomplished in those hinge moments.

He provides a clear-eyed, sharp-tongued assessment of this hinge moment in time, when the world’s center of gravity is shifting “from the West to the East.”

It’s a hinge moment in the film, when she’s beginning to feel ambivalent and uneasy about the takeover of her life by the return of her ghostly lover.

What excites me about this new responsibility is how we are at a hinge moment of history; the Internet is the greatest communications revolution in the last 150 years.

This is a hinge moment and though there is none to blame for getting him here save himself, he must close his eyes and think on what will be and what has been.

For the rate of change of hinge moment coefficient with incidence a value of the lift-curve slope is required and may be obtained from ESDU Aero W.01.01.05.

That case against the industry was the hinge moment, just as it was in the smoking debate, which was bitterly fought in class actions against Big Tobacco first, then passed through state law.

They reminded the reader of Mr. Wallace’s copious gifts as a writer and his keen sense of the metastasizing absurdities of life in America at a precarious hinge moment in time.

The last two times an incumbent president was defeated by a challenger – Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George Bush in 1992 – the hinge moment arrived only in the last few months of the campaign.

On January 15, 1951, during seated meditation by Lake Lagunita at Stanford, he experienced what he describes as a "hinge moment", after which he dropped out of the pre-med program with a new vision for the purpose of his life.

A second graph gives curves that allow the theoretical value to be corrected for the effects of viscosity since they give the ratio of the slope of the hinge moment coefficient curve with incidence in incompressible flow to that theoretical value.

The aircraft inverted, dived, and crashed from a holding pattern at 10,000 feet (3050 m) "after a ridge of ice accreted beyond the deice boots" resulting in an unexpected aileron hinge moment reversal that subsequently resulted in the loss of control.

Lipstadt has done a great service by untethering the trial from Arendt’s polarizing presence, recovering the event as a gripping legal drama, as well as a hinge moment in Israel’s history and in the world’s delayed awakening to the magnitude of the Holocaust.

For the special series a graph plots curves of the theoretical rate of change of hinge moment coefficient with control deflection for inviscid flow against control chord to aerofoil chord ratio for various values of thickness/chord ratio.