Die Meistersinger is, like Orfeo, Capriccio, and Wagner's own earlier Tannhäuser, a musical composition in which the composition of music is a pivotal part of the story.

The role of Nancy, the wife of naval officer Harry ( Holden ), proved to be a minor but pivotal part of the story.

* In Carolyn Parkhurst's novel The Dogs of Babel, ( also known as Lorelei's Secret in the UK ), a section of Tam Lin plays a pivotal role in the story.

The story of the flood is closely connected with the story of the creation, a cycle of creation, un-creation, and re-creation, in which the ark plays a pivotal role.

The pivotal moment in the story comes while the characters are all attending the Venetian Carnival in costume.

The Talbot v. Laroche case was the pivotal point of the story.

Inokashira Park in particular serves as a pivotal setting for much of the story.

They wrote that in order to reach the most pivotal moments in the game's story, " you must endure some of the most ridiculous situations Solid Snake has ever seen ," and that " the game's focus on constant backtracking and keycard acquisition makes it too repetitive.

Smiley, who is a minor but pivotal character in the story, is supposedly still retired but is revealed during the story to be back in the Circus as one of the top aides to " Control ", Maston's mysterious successor as the Circus ' chief.

While not part of any specific religious rite in Judaism, blintzes that are stuffed with a cheese filling and then fried in oil are served on holidays such as Chanukah ( as oil played a pivotal role in the miracle of the Chanukah story ) and Shavuot ( when dairy dishes are traditionally served within the Ashkenazi minhag ).

Bit parts are often significant in the story line, sometimes pivotal, as in Jack Albertson's role as a postal worker in the 1947 feature film Miracle on 34th Street.

Supporting roles may be pivotal or vital to the story.

In Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest, in the Asian Campaign, the Tanegashima Space Center is an important location, pivotal in the story to the United Federation of Asian Republics reaching Mars before the Americans or Europeans.

Valley plays a pivotal role in the " Knightfall " story arc ( 1992 – 1994 ), in which he stands in as Batman after Bruce Wayne is defeated and paralyzed at the hands of Bane.

But not only was it part of one of the most famous siege actions in history, the story also gained currency that it played a pivotal role in convincing Robert de Baudricourt in Vaucouleurs, to accede to Joan's demand for support and safe conduct to Chinon.

* A giant rat plays a pivotal role in the Bram Stoker short story " The Judge's House " ( first published in 1914 ) in the collection Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories.

By season four, critics thought that Susan's story lines were the least interesting and that she had not " operated at full potential since pivotal role in the debut season ".

But refusing to comply with the Corpse Brigade's demands for the sake of a commoner, Zalbaag explicitly orders the cadet Argath to shoot Tietra and then Gragoroth, a pivotal event in the story of Final Fantasy Tactics witnessed both by Ramza and Delita.

Vei appears very early on the story, " gently " warming the backs of Macunaima and his brothers as they leave Tapanhumas tribe, but she gains pivotal importance during the middle of the book in the chapter Vei.

Set in a drought-ridden rural town in the West in Depression era America, the film tells the story of a pivotal hot summer day in the life of spinsterish Lizzie Curry.

In Hinduism the God Hanuman is benign and in the Ramayana he and his monkey people are pivotal for Rama to reach Sri Lanka and slay Ravana, probably Howard decided to depict him as a demon after having read Rudyard Kipling's The Mark of the Beast, a short story where a drunken British officer in India is struck by a curse after having defaced a Hanuman statue with his cigar.

Mezrich not only exaggerated freely, according to sources for both articles, but invented whole parts of the story, including some pivotal events in the book that never happened to anyone.

After exhortation to seemly conduct and sundry observations on statecraft he ends by stressing the pivotal role in government of power and a seemly public image.

Her intelligence causes the Headmaster to take an interest in her, and makes her pivotal in his plans to win a national school quiz competition for nefarious ends, as well as other subsequent plots, made easier by the fact that she is the only member of SPLAT not immune to his hypnosis.

In a pivotal swing game that would either see the Rockies leave San Francisco with a 1. 5 game lead or a 3. 5 game lead, Colorado once again built a large lead against Matt Cain in the finale of the series on September 16.

* 1978 – The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.

This is consistent with " the cult of heavenly ordained rule " which was a pivotal element of the Turko-Mongol political culture and were inherited by the Göktürks from their predecessors in Mongolia.

HT sees Islam's pivotal turning point as occurring not with the death of Ali, or one of the other four rightly guided Caliphs in the 7th century, but with the 1918 or 1922 abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate.

This weakness was exposed during the Abyssinia Crisis, when Britain and France had to balance maintaining the security they had attempted to create for themselves in Europe " to defend against the enemies of internal order ", in which Italy's support played a pivotal role, with their obligations to Abyssinia as a member of the League.

Inquiries about the DNA of organisms are classed as genetic models ( with short generation times, such as the fruitfly and nematode worm ), experimental models, and genomic parsimony models, investigating pivotal position in the evolutionary tree.

The Brewers faced the California Angels in the 1982 American League Championship Series and lost the first two games in California, but then rallied to win the next two games back in Milwaukee, setting up the pivotal Game 5, with the winner being the American League Champions.

This would play a pivotal role in Tokugawa's philosophy of strategic patience in his campaigns with Oda Nobunaga.

However, these primary elections, while demonstrating Roosevelt's continuing popularity with the electorate, were not nearly as pivotal as primaries became later in the century.

** The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.

He published a biography of Joseph Chamberlain, which treated the split with William Gladstone over Irish Home Rule in 1886 as the pivotal point of his career, rather than the adoption of tariff reform, and contained the famous line: " All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs ".

A number of modern historians and writers in other fields agree with Watson, and continue to maintain that this Battle was one of history's pivotal events.

Marley Marl was pivotal in new school hip hop with his record label, innovative production, and Juice Crew collective.

These trips became the pivotal moment of his education ; he visited Chartres, the Parthenon, and many other ancient monuments, becoming increasingly fascinated with architecture.

Johnson was pivotal in steering the commission towards Mies, working with Phyllis Lambert, the daughter of the CEO of Seagram.

Both houses of Congress responded with committee investigations and reports affirming the historical precedents for the Bank's constitutionality and its pivotal role in furnishing a uniform currency.

In the film The Contender, in which he co-starred, Bridges recorded a version of Johnny Cash's standard " Ring of Fire " with Kim Carnes that played over the pivotal opening credits.

A pivotal period in Prentice McHoan's life is described, seen through his preoccupations with death, sex, his relationship with his father, unrequited love, sibling rivalry, a missing uncle, relationships, drink ( and other intoxicants ) and God, with the background a celebration of the Scottish landscape.

From 1421, Archibald, Earl of Douglas had been in regular contact with James and they formed an alliance that was to prove pivotal in 1423.

During the 2004 regular season Keith Foulke was used primarily as a closer in the conventional model ; however, Foulke's usage in the 2004 postseason was along the lines of a relief ace with multiple inning appearances at pivotal times of the game.

Lela Rogers was credited with many pivotal contributions to her daughter's early successes in New York and in Hollywood, and gave her much assistance in contract negotiations with RKO.