Sentence examples for its linchpin from inspiring English sources

Worse, it's missing its linchpin: a calculation of how much higher the tides actually were on the night of Jan . 4 .

Gonzalez was its linchpin.

The Saudis see an axis of Shia mischief, stretching from Tehran through Baghdad and Damascus to Hizbullah in Lebanon, as their biggest threat, and Syria as its linchpin.

Palmer Williams has been variously described by colleagues at "60 Minutes" as its linchpin, its cement, and (by Hewitt) its ringmaster.

Without its linchpin, the affected wheel would have spun off the vehicle, the chariot itself would have hit the ground with a thud and the charioteer would probably have been injured.

Mr. Johnson was the trio's most consistently engaging improviser, bounding across the full register of his instrument; he was also its linchpin, the person with whom both of the other players have ample history.

One of its linchpins, for instance, the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel, with its 550,000 square feet including 640 rooms and 33 suites, didn't open until Dec. 26.

(Anderson) Lil Wayne (Wednesday) A nasal loose cannon with a perennially out-in-space stream-of-consciousness, Lil Wayne is as anomalous in the current rap scene as he is one of its linchpins — enough so to be name-dropped by President Obama.

Dennis Coffey When Motown soul went psychedelic in the late 1960s, with songs like the Temptations' "Cloud Nine," its studio linchpin was the guitarist Dennis Coffey, frenetically strumming tremolos and pumping a wah-wah pedal.

Its fiery linchpin is the drummer Andrew Cyrille, a veteran of the post-1960s avant-garde; but no less a role is played by the pianist Orrin Evans and the bassist Eric Revis.

It sounded heartfelt except he didn't have one good thing to say about playing baseball with the Reds, a small-market team that, under fan fire, dug deep to keep Larkin, its longtime linchpin.