| The diversity and broad appeal that had been the linchpin of its success now drained away like vital oil. |
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| As such, it is the critical aspect of making art, the linchpin that unites theory with practice and conjoins the intellect and the hand. |
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| He put the wheel back and secured it with a new linchpin, which he carved from a piece of wood. |
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| Power-dressers in the 1980s added shoulder pads to their twinsets and the garment became the linchpin of conservative chic. |
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| By early June, with the plan seemingly stillborn, he began to search for a compromise that could salvage the linchpin of his program. |
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| The Trade Ministers will attempt to build bridges in the divisive but linchpin issue of farm trade. |
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| Yet habit is the linchpin for the philosophical way of thinking that James called radical empiricism, and later pragmatism. |
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| To some neoclassical economists, the Pareto criterion is the unchallengeable linchpin of welfare economics. |
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| The linchpin of my argument is the distinction between absolutism, relativism, and pluralism. |
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| If I'm right about this, it's only the spelling that signals the eggcorn, because lynchpin of course sounds just like linchpin. |
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| Nuclear weapons are the linchpin neither of the U.S. position in the world nor of its security. |
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| Nurses will be the linchpin to the Government's grandiose plans to modernise and improve the National Health Service, one of their leaders says. |
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| Documenting the role the government and corporations played in slavery is the linchpin of the reparations effort, says Walters. |
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| Throughout American history, the family has been seen as the linchpin of the social order and the basis for stable governance. |
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| Pakistan is the linchpin for the stability and coherent development of Afghanistan. |
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| Access to secure, economical and reliable supplies of energy is a linchpin of progress. |
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| The linchpin to achieving such an outcome remained securing meaningful market access opportunities in agriculture, industrial goods and services. |
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| Often, handwriting evidence is not even admitted and is rarely, if ever, the linchpin on which a case rests. |
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| Yet cutting public spending to avoid that contraction has become a linchpin of both George Osborne's and the IMF's policies. |
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| Bolshevism was the linchpin that held all the other facets of conspiracy together. |
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| The linchpin to maintaining worker safety and efficiency is preplanning. |
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| 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. |
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| At the moment, Yisrael Beiteinu is the linchpin of the coming rightist government. |
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| It was one courier in particular that proved the linchpin in Sunday night's operation that killed the al Qaeda leader. |
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| The linchpin of the deployment is Exercise Rapid Alliance, involving two American carrier battlegroups and a US Marine Corps task force, staging mock invasions. |
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| It has been used as the linchpin of the monetary policy strategy in the fight against inflation. |
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| I'm sort of the linchpin of this research on locating in the sense that I have followed the progress of the four groups. |
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| One focus will be on building research skills, the linchpin of every good biography. |
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| Fasten the calibration trough to the transport mounting and secure with a linchpin. |
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| Lisa Curran eases some of the stress of swimsuit shopping with her classic tank, a one-piece suit that has become the linchpin of her collection. |
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| The change will be a linchpin to progress, but to understand how this is so, it is necessary to review the background to the change. |
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| By the age of 16, he stopped buying cattle at nearby sales and started driving to different herds outside the local area to purchase higher-quality cattle as the linchpin in the farm's development. |
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| Application of the subsidiarity principle as the linchpin of governance. |
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| Without its linchpin, the affected wheel would have spun off the vehicle, the chariot itself would have hit the ground with a thud and the charioteer would probably have been injured. |
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| These unsung workers are the linchpin of our entire world economy. |
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| After months of financial uncertainty it is clear that only cooperation in economic matters, with the euro as the linchpin, can provide the certainty that the current global economic systems require. |
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| With the opening of a brand-new port in Doraleh, this geostrategic linchpin in the battle to end terrorism and piracy in East Africa has entered a new stage in its development. |
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| Not least in view of China and India arriving on the scene, Vietnam is the linchpin in our relations with Asia, but human rights should form an integral part of this. |
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| As the linchpin of our mission and identity, sustainable development imbues our corporate philosophy, informs our management system and drives the creation of value over the medium and long term. |
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| The strengthening of PANI is the first step in its becoming the leading authority on child rights and the linchpin for integrated child protection. |
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| Fluent in English and Portuguese, in addition to French, she's the linchpin in this project, working with both the crew and shore team to help plan optimized departures, legs and arrivals. |
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| The Afghan National Police are a linchpin in building a more secure but also better-governed Kandahar, as they are often the most visible face of the Afghan government across the country. |
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| During the presidential debates last year, Mr. Bush extolled China as the linchpin of his strategy for addressing North Korea, implying that he felt confident that China shared his sense of urgency about the issue. |
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| This reinforcement will be a linchpin for creating the behaviour of present and new executives and high-potential feeder groups to support public service priorities. |
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| The comfort women issue has been a key linchpin in Japan's relations with neighboring countries, particularly with South Korea. |
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| The practice was a linchpin to Shaw's utopic thinking and forms the focus of Yde's Bernard Shaw and Totalitarianism. |
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| Unfortunately, longitudinal studies suggest that the treacly concept of getting moms and dads engaged is almost certainly the linchpin of students' educational success. |
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| The bush is the crucible of Australian national identity because it is here that mateship, that linchpin of Australian national identity, was forged. |
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