Amir saves him, and then is saved by Sohrab in a pivotal confrontation.

Miranda then walked the confused Paul O'Neill (1 for his last 16) to fill the bases and set up the most pivotal confrontation of the afternoon as Graeme Lloyd was summoned to oppose Strawberry.

So many critical battles had been fought and pivotal confrontations had taken place within only a few miles of that gateway to the Elven homeland.

That sets up the pivotal confrontation to come in the next scene, hours later, when Kaufman arranges for nearly the entire ensemble to gather in the hotel room.

The May air strikes were a pivotal confrontation with the Serbs, and a reconstruction of how they were planned and executed shows that their failure seemed scripted almost from the start.

Over the next several months, Mr. Winkler and Mr. Halsey will return time and again to this pivotal confrontation.

The Battle of Guayaquil was the final and pivotal armed confrontation of the Ecuadorian Civil War.

Offense The most pivotal confrontation will center on the power play of the Rangers and its effectiveness against one of the N.H.L.'s best killers of penalties.

The organizing drive is viewed as a pivotal confrontation.

Its sentimental ending feels hammered on, with the nails showing, and a couple of the work's pivotal confrontations have a whiff of assembly-line melodrama.