Bill Belichick's successful defenses in New England have always had a linchpin player like Ted Washington or Vince Wilfork to control the line of scrimmage.
Built around standup comic Roseanne Barr, it has the utter confidence, the lack of condescension and the true and easy charm that comes from having a linchpin who knows whereof she speaks.
The disconnect between marketing and sales personnel has a primary linchpin: leads.
Through eight seasons so far, "The Voice" has become a linchpin of NBC's lineup as the network has zoomed from last to first place in the ratings.
ALBANY — A state university president who has been a linchpin in the Cuomo administration's efforts to stimulate economic growth has resigned from the boards of two nonprofits that manage major real estate developments aimed at building tech hubs in faded upstate cities.
They sometimes seem to be trying to convince themselves that an aim that has become a linchpin of American strategy is still achievable.Their nervousness has been heightened by the recent embarrassment over the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank AIIBB), a new, China-led multilateral development-finance institution.
Mr Kerry is also proposing a large hike in the minimum wage, to $7 an hour from $5.15, and a further expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit a sort of negative income tax, expanded under Mr Clinton, which has been a linchpin of the effort to make the poor self-supporting.Both candidates concentrate on education, which is a major determinant of both poverty rates and the growth of inequality.
The idea that in undergoing abortion women experience something tragic and specific called "post-abortion syndrome" has been a linchpin of the anti-abortion movement in recent years.
If the case is not resolved, Congress and the Obama administration have vowed to cut off the $1.55 billion in annual aid to Egypt, potentially rupturing the three-way alliance among Washington, Cairo and Jerusalem that has been a linchpin of regional stability.
June 23 2014 Hidden in plain sight, the New Zealand-born pianist has been a linchpin of Charlie Haden's Quartet West unit since the late eighties, as well as a Grammy-winning arranger whose tasteful charts have enlivened recordings by Diana Krall, Natalie Cole, and Paul McCartney.
