"They would be the two linchpins of our pitching staff.
The spill, though at last contained, has done serious damage to two linchpins of the south-eastern Louisiana economy: oil and fishing.
Two linchpins of the country dance scene, Mary Ann Cromeek and Susan Gordon, teach in several adult education programs and circulate an e-mail newsletter about country music in the tristate area.
The collaboration was unexpected from Ocean, a typical soloist, featuring two linchpins of pop radio's split loyalty to euphoric dance music and bass-heavy Southern rap. (Flip on your local pop dial now, and you'll likely hear "This Is What You Came For," "Bad and Boujee," or something that sounds like one of them).
It was one linchpin of a concert that seesawed between facing mortality — full of songs about death — and a stubborn determination to live fully.
On Monday his committee released another attack on Medicaid, one of the linchpins of the Affordable Care Act and one that for some reason is especially detested by conservatives, like the majority members of Ryan's committee.
"We've credited ExtraCare as one of the linchpins of our sale results," she said.
And selling nuclear-energy technology abroad Toshiba, Hitachi and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries all produce reactors is one of the linchpins of Mr Kan's growth strategy.Second, electricity rationing may keep output depressed for longer than originally anticipated.
Today, though the patent was not among those Vlingo and Nuance fought over, it is known as the Siri patent because it is widely viewed as one of the linchpins of Apple's strategy to protect its smartphone technologies.
Local Tea Partiers are against immigrant labor, although the state's agriculture depends on it; against globalization, although the port in Tampa is one of the linchpins of the economy; and against government, although it's a main employer.
