Sentence examples for cornerstone of a team from inspiring English sources

Just as Brady and Manning each epitomized his squad's character and offensive personality, Revis serves as the cornerstone of a team built on defense.

Wherever he goes — whether to Kansas City at No. 1 or somewhere else a few minutes later — he is the sort of rare talent expected to be the cornerstone of a team for at least a decade.

I want to be a cornerstone of a team, a leader.' " He had just about arrived, as a third-team all-league selection with the Reed-built Nets, when he died in a car accident on a rain-slicked German autobahn before the start of the 1993 N.B.A. finals.

In the 90's, when Molly was filing several features a week and Paul was a cornerstone of a team that won the World Series four times, New Yorkers often wondered how two people with such unrelated talents had sprung from the same house.

Together they typify the maximising of every available ounce of talent from the fundamental cornerstone of making a team difficult to beat.

Then, the Rockets pulled off a trade heist, stealing reigning Sixth Man of the Year James Harden from the Oklahoma City Thunder with the idea he could be the cornerstone of a playoff team.

Morneau was drafted by the Twins in 1999 and has been a cornerstone of the team for a decade.

"Pitching is still the cornerstone of a successful baseball team.

Wenger is reluctant to see one of his key performers - a player he would like as a cornerstone of a rebuilt Arsenal team - move to a Premier League rival.

And Nick Swisher and Aníbal Sánchez are nice complementary players, but not the cornerstones of a championship team.

Several of the Pistons' key players — guards Chauncey Billups and Richard Hamilton and the departed center Ben Wallace — were not regarded as cornerstones of a championship team when Dumars acquired them.