This task seemed even more hopeless than the rest of their activities, but survival hinged on his ability to get away from Crenna and summon help.

"Remaking," he said, reminded him that survival in the image-conscious pop music world often hinges on a well-timed makeover.

En route, she realizes her own survival hinges on severing her ties to him.

"The survival of Galactic civilization is hinging upon you, you know," the presumed Professor told him.

His survival hinged, he wrote, on convincing his captors that he was a taxi driver, not an intellectual.

He never dreamed she would fire the first shots, but their survival hinged on taking the initiative away from the better-armed aliens.

Their survival hinges on their finding these forage schools at their feeding grounds.

When survival hinges on trusting no one but yourself, the kindness of strangers can seem too good to be true.

I think it lingers from pre-civilization days when survival of the species hinged on propagation.

For Fromm, freedom from animal instinct implicitly implies that survival now hinges on the necessity of charting one's own course.