linchpin

How To Use linchpin In A Sentence

• Though severely and repeatedly strained, the deal has come to be taken for granted as a linchpin of the fragile Middle Eastern order. But new stresses may test neighbourly relations as never before.
• Is now the captain and linchpin of Arsenal but linked with a move back to the Catalans. The Sun
• The Trade Ministers will attempt to build bridges in the divisive but linchpin issue of farm trade.
• The modesty of the Arab woman is the linchpin of the whole political system.
• The new building is the linchpin of the medical centre's £62 million redevelopment programme.
• It continues to be our view that the unfolding dislocation in the derivatives marketplace, the linchpin for the money and credit bubble, is a similarly seminal development.
• Stories “The Scent of Copper Pennies” and “Jen at the Crossroads” and poem “The God of the Crossroads” — all about the vodun loa Papa Legba, the opener of the way, and all about parallel universes, but more importantly, all about those linchpin moments in life, those choices that change everything forever after; decisions to leave, or stay, or love, or run away. Thematic Circling «
• It is the linchpin in the effort to give legitimacy to the post-Cold War settlement, while ensuring that it does not become detached either from power or compelling national interests.
• She wasn't just the linchpin of the family, she was part of the team too. Times, Sunday Times
• he is the linchpin of this firm