The word 'gatekeepers' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to people who control access to a particular thing or place, either physically or figuratively. For example, "The gatekeepers of the castle guarded the entrance to the palace."
Again, it's more egalitarian: there are fewer gatekeepers between you and the people who you might want to impress, or who might want to impress you.
I identified that GP consultations were one of the gatekeepers to the hospital referral.
Communities perceived as economically marginal will also be culturally marginal, because the cultural gatekeepers largely react to the landscape shaped by commerce.
"Radio is springing free of the regulated gatekeepers who've managed what you can hear since radio was invented.
Russian and foreign energy companies such as TNK-BP and Italy's Eni and Enel took part to ingratiate themselves with Rosneft and Gazprom, the gatekeepers of Russian resources.
ReprintsMr Yar'Adua's wife, Turai, is said to head a clutch of gatekeepers and aides who keep the president off-limits.
"My advice to the trustee could not be more simple: put 10% of the cash in short-term government bonds and 90% in a very low-cost S&P 500 index fund".As investors wake up to the maths, active fund management is starting to face the kind of pressure seen in other industries, like newspapers, record labels and taxi companies, which are losing their role as gatekeepers.
Unlike family doctors in most other advanced countries, GPs in the NHS have long acted as "gatekeepers", controlling patients' access to expensive hospital care through their referrals for treatment.
But officials also claim that lives would be saved by modernisation, and emphasise the benefits of greater patient choice and decentralisation.Sceptics counter that decentralisation, patient choice and efficiency might yet clash: GPs are being asked to act as both patient advocates and gatekeepers to treatment.
In places (such as its headline call for a "paradigm shift" in economics) the book may irk Mr Krugman and other gatekeepers of the profession.
Where schools are the gatekeepers to the winners' circle, parents will do anything to get their children through.Imagine if, for some quirk of constitutional history, the British cabinet had to be selected entirely from landscape gardeners and blacksmiths.
