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Linchpin
Definition:
(n.) A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ferdinand says the state of Louis van Gaal’s defence is such that Stones would immediately become its linchpin but that the former Barnsley player may not be ready to dislodge John Terry or Gary Cahill from Chelsea’s backline.
(2) He might have done many more if he wasn’t a multi-millionaire and a linchpin of the economy in his home state of Nevada.
(3) His criteria for determining the national interest, the stated linchpin of his decision-making about launching a war, went unarticulated.
(4) Over the weekend, business leaders spoke to German newspapers to back Cryan’s efforts to turn around Deutsche, which is a linchpin of the national economy.
(5) While the congregation has been shrinking in recent years, United in Christ is a linchpin for the community offering free food on Wednesday afternoons.
(6) According to the New York Times , the American middle class – the linchpin of the country's phenomenal postwar economic growth – can no longer call itself the richest in the world.
(7) Insiders who spoke to the Journal allege that out of the 240 kinds of tests it currently performs, the “pinprick” technology lauded as the linchpin of their strategy was only used for a tiny fraction of its testing .
(8) Gareth Barry, one of the linchpins of the previous era, was not even on the bench.
(9) The current study provides a linchpin between the studies of adolescent suicide attempt rates and the studies reporting on percentages of adolescents who made suicide attempts.
(10) He also defended his record as mayor, which has been a linchpin of his potential presidential bid, while linking the recent events to a broader societal critique.
(11) Despite her reputation as an art house linchpin, Swinton has regularly appeared in genre fare.
(12) Stephens plays Rob, the linchpin of a group of young friends in the fictional village of Overton.
(13) The linchpin of oncologic statistics might well be thought to be classification based upon the hope that comparisons of natural history and treatment regimes could be compared and controlled worldwide.
(14) Cowell has become the king of prime-time TV in the US on the back of the phenomenal success of American Idol, where he is the linchpin of the judging panel.
(15) Platt was one of many overlooked linchpins of the grime scene, and Channel U was radical at a time when black British artists weren’t being readily supported on mainstream channels, radio or labels.
(16) The nurse manager is becoming a key player in hospitals' efforts to satisfy patient needs, hold down costs and maximize efficiency; indeed, this "linchpin" manager is being given authority over budgeting, capital equipment expenditures, employee evaluations and patient care outcomes.
(17) In the first weeks after Snowden disclosed the phone records mass collection to the Guardian, the NSA’s leadership publicly portrayed it as a linchpin to stop future terrorist attacks inside the US.
(18) With the WTO's broader Doha round negotiations at an impasse, delegates hope that an agreement on trade facilitation could serve as the linchpin in a pared-down global trade deal that negotiators are aiming to reach at a high-level meeting in Bali in December.
(19) Sampson in Johannesburg had become the linchpin of the Observer 's Africa coverage.
(20) The drama of that 1944 Democratic convention is one that Stone and Kuznick wrote as a Hitchcockian thriller in the late 1990s before deciding to make it, a decade later, the linchpin of their documentary.