Syria is a strategic hinge in the Middle East.

Furthermore, the country on which this increase will most likely hinge is Iraq.

European security is hinged on Serbian integration, just as Serbian aspirations hinge on the EU.

Whether this becomes a systemic issue affecting the entire global economy will hinge on China.

Most people think they know what origami is. It's this flapping birds, toys, cootie catchers, that sort of thing.

The fate of the country may not hinge on Saleh, a crafty veteran who knows that his career is over.

This issue continues to hinge on the training of some 600 security auxiliaries drawn from within the ranks of the FN.

Biologists may distinguish organic from inorganic compounds in a different way that does not hinge on the presence of a carbon atom.

To control the fall, the top and bottom cuts are made to form a wedged 45 degree hinge in the directional cut line.

Presidents futures their ability to win re election, to accomplish other policy goals, and to leave a respectable legacy hinge on the economy s strength.

On the back of its shell, the tortoise has a 90 degree hinge which, when closed, can protect its rear legs and tail from predators.

The technical questions are complex, and the proverbial devil really is in the countless details. But prospects for a deal will hinge on resolving three broad issues.

Success in international negotiations will hinge on how parties and the citizens they represent consider a few vital equity principles, especially historical responsibility and equal per capita rights.

Attainment of the MDGs would largely hinge on how the productive sector was harnessed to enable it to generate the resources necessary to achieve the goals in question.

It is generally believed and there is a modicum of truth in it that success in nuclear disarmament does not hinge on technical issues, but is a matter of political will.

So we looked at the birds, and we tried to make a model that is powerful, ultralight, and it must have excellent aerodynamic qualities that would fly by its own and only by flapping its wings.

The one final bit of sparkle we'll put in at the very end here is an utterly impractical flight vehicle, which is a little ornithopter wing flapping device that rubber band powered that we'll show you.

Another time, when our path took us by a tranquil stream, I saw a man sitting and watching his line, seemingly at peace with the world, while next to him, fish he had already caught were flapping helplessly and gasping in the air.

Plenty of robots can fly but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.

For 1969, Ford incorporated a design that allowed the rear glass to remain up or down when the door pivoted open on its side hinge, marketing the system, which had been engineered by Donald N. Frey as the Three Way Magic Doorgate .

If the Round is to be completed by 2006, which is widely recognized as the only narrow window available, further progress will now hinge on the outcome of the 6th WTO Ministerial Conference, to be held in Hong Kong, China, in December 2005.

Lack of stimulation often leads to self stimulating behaviors like hand flapping, rocking back and forth, or aggression, and in some institutions, psychiatric drugs are used to control the behavior of these children, whilst in others, children are tied up to prevent them from harming themselves or others.

The possible existence of the organization's responsibility appears to hinge on whether the organization's binding decision actually requires the wrongful act to be done, or whether the act is just one of the ways that a member State may select when implementing the decision.

For, in a complicated economic system that feeds back on itself in many ways, events that start a vicious cycle might be as seemingly trivial as the proverbial butterfly in the Amazon, which, by flapping its wings, sets off a chain of events that eventually results in a far away hurricane.

Under Napoleon I, the proportions were changed to make the stripes' width equal, but by a regulation dated 17 May 1853, the navy went back to using the 30 33 37 proportions, which it continues to use, as the flapping of the flag makes portions farther from the halyard seem smaller.