Much of the haggling at Laeken may centre on who exactly this pivotal figure will be.

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After a difficult first season with the U's, Crow has become a pivotal figure during the current campaign.

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The 25-year-old American has been a pivotal figure in Bolton's impressive start to the season playing every Premier League game so far.

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Foster, like his former partner Richard Rogers (who has a peerage, but no Pritzker as yet), is a pivotal figure in British architecture.

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"Peter has this unique ability to deeply connect with you, and he became a pivotal figure at a pivotal moment in my life, " Springsteen says.

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Eric Topol , one of the country's most well-known doctors and a pivotal figure in the Vioxx litigation, may leave his post as chairman of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic, according to a Merck spokesman.

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More surprising still, the pivotal figure in the picture is an American Lieutenant Josh Rushing, a press officer, who gives the Al Jazeera side of the argument a far more sympathetic hearing than the White House would consider wise.

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Whether Davies plays any part against Montenegro remains to be seen with Capello saying before the announcement of his squad that he expects Sunderland's Bent, who has scored eight times this season, to be a pivotal figure for England in the future.

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