Earlier versions of the report had so outraged Rwanda that it threatened to withdraw thousands of its peacekeepers from Sudan, where it plays a linchpin role in the troubled Darfur region.
It was a linchpin of tourism.
It is a linchpin of the nation's economy.
Locals see it as a linchpin in their fragile economy.
Moreover, since it is a linchpin in Europe's complex architecture, Turkey cannot be ignored.
My least favorite fill (by far) is REPEN, but it's a linchpin.
"It's a linchpin piece of the redevelopment of Canal Street and the Quarter".
The speech, like the campaign of which it is a linchpin, was positively Manichean: competence versus chaos, wise saving versus "deeply irresponsible" expenditure, Tory security versus Labour disaster.
It is the sad end of an era that was as much a part of Cuban history and culture as it was a linchpin of the economy.
His parents, Jews who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, made their way to Moisés Ville when it was a linchpin for more than a dozen Jewish farming colonies scattered across Argentina's grassy plains, known as the pampas.
