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This was a critical moment in his career.

The incident happened at a critical point in the campaign.

And analyst Albert Bernard is in critical condition.

The extermination of the wolf from most of the contiguous United States may have been a critical factor in the raccoon's expansion and numerical increase.

This is critical to a successful marketing campaign because it builds up the consumer's brand awareness, their knowledge of a product made by a particular manufacturer.

Critical. Food is very scarce in far north so reindeer herds have to cover lots of ground every day.

In the years 1446-1448, two German goldsmiths, Johannes Gutenberg and Johann Fust, made use of cheap paper to introduce a critical improvement in the way written pages were reproduced.

But of most critical importance was the food supply.

And by redistributing this energy, the Sun's energy really, winds play a critical role in maintaining a temperature balance from the poles to the equator.

The wind! So wind is a very critical element in the redistribution of both the Sun's energy and Earth's water.

The second most critical area for these coaches was organization and administration.

One broad area of disagreement in explaining the peopling of the Americas is the domain of paleoecologists, but it is critical to understanding human history: what was Beringia like?

For instance, in almost every case thus far, the first thing private companies do is drastically raise user fees because they say, "Oh, we must do critical maintenance that's gone undone for years and years.

So I haven’t captured the most critical influences, the influences that were most significant to his political thinking?

It assumes that centralized management was critical to dealing with issues caused by sudden population surges, like a strain on limited food supplies.

Another critical issue, and it’s related to the first, to the size issue, is how far from the water should it go to get trees?

That level of precision is critical to the snake for maintaining its body temperature.

Well, there are two critical factors to consider when creating a pedestrian mall: location and design, both of which are equally important.

First, primary groups are critical to the socialization process.

Maturation of the frontal lobes of the brain continues throughout early childhood, and this part of the brain may be critical for remembering particular episodes in ways that can be retrieved later.

Critical medical supplies are very much needed right now.

The accessibility piece is critical to that idea.

The film met with considerable critical and public acclaim.

The show was also a resounding critical success.

Without experimentation and objective, critical testing of their theories, the best these thinkers could hope to achieve was some internally consistent speculation that covered all the bases and satisfied the demands of reason.

In both cases the critical daylength differs from species to species.

The authorities are considering an airlift if the situation becomes critical.

Its day-to-day finances are in a critical state.

She became critical and dogmatic.

He had long been critical of Conservative policy.

His report is highly critical of the trial judge.

They don't agree with his critical analysis of the current policy.