What's the difference between linchpin and security?
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.
(n.) The condition or quality of being secure; secureness.
(n.) Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty.
(n.) Freedom from risk; safety.
(n.) That which secures or makes safe; protection; guard; defense.
(n.) Something given, deposited, or pledged, to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge.
(n.) One who becomes surety for another, or engages himself for the performance of another's obligation.
(n.) An evidence of debt or of property, as a bond, a certificate of stock, etc.; as, government securities.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(3) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
(4) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
(5) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
(6) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(7) The remaining grafts appeared to be incorporated securely, as determined by radiographic examination.
(8) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(9) "Especially at a time when they are turning down voluntary requests and securing the positions of senior managers."
(10) Huhne increased the Lib Dems' majority to 3,864 in 2010, securing 24,966 compared with the Conservatives' 21,102, Labour's 5,153 and Ukip's 1,933.
(11) This is not for the most part revolutionary.” Trump has made some of his least ideological picks in the area of national security and foreign policy.
(12) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.
(13) Pyongyang also called the UN security council an "ugly product of American-led international pressure".
(14) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
(15) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
(16) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
(17) We have reported on a simple and secure method of tying up hair during transplantation surgery for alopecia.
(18) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
(19) Many organisations choose not to affiliate their aid work with the UN, particularly in conflict situations, where the organisation is not always seen either as neutral or separate from the work of the UN security council.
(20) Van Rompuy and Ashton got their jobs at the same time as a result of the Lisbon treaty, which created the posts of president of the European council and high representative for foreign and security policy.