Sentence examples for as linchpin from inspiring English sources

With Stravinsky as linchpin, this concert given by members of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales presented repertoire ranging right across the 20th century, with subtle echoes of a more distant past.

Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani has brokered a peace deal between the Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, acted as linchpin in America's negotiations with the Taliban, spurred Libya's resurrection and led the international charge to oust the Syrian regime.No wonder the 60-year-old is dubbed the "Arab Kissinger".

With the support of then Senator Robert Dole and Speaker Newt Gingrich for his free-trading strategy, Clinton managed to forge what looks very much like a new consensus--one based on the vision of a world of free-trading democracies, led by the United States as linchpin and guarantor.

By the end of the poem the three central characters are all wounded and transformed by what has happened to them, and although the Arthurian tradition clearly has the king as linchpin and hero, Tennyson leaves you less certain as a reader.

We have chosen WSN deployment in an urban environment as linchpin of our research.

With Richard Perle, power broker par excellence--at the epicenter of a head-spinning array of activities in quasi-government, think tanks, and business--and as linchpin of the Neocon core, these flexians, operating together in what I call their "flex net", divined their own reality, namely the imminent threat to America posed by an Iraq supposedly armed with weapons of mass destruction.

The bishops, well aware of their role as linchpins, objected strongly to such a radical solution, and the plan foundered.

The threat the startups pose is not that they will topple banks as linchpins of the economy.

In every immigrant community in New York, a few people emerge as linchpins — part fixer, part rescuer, part counselor, part diplomat.

If News Corporation buys the team, it would essentially own the television rights, and prevent Cuban from possibly starting a regional network with the Rangers and the Mavericks as linchpins.

She said the two missile defense centers — one for data sharing and one for advance planning and coordinating operations — could serve as linchpins for a cooperative approach to European missile defense.