Sentence examples for linchpin between from inspiring English sources

"The sea is the linchpin between Colorado River water and urban Southern California," Michael Cohen, a senior research associate at the Pacific Institute, a water-policy think tank, says.

He had stepped in as the linchpin between the American army and the Shia majority after the coalition's first choice for middleman, Abdelmajid al-Khoi, was stabbed to death in April, also at the Imam Ali shrine.

With a single stroke, the N.C.A.A. positioned itself as the linchpin between millions of high school kids fighting for a crack at an athletic scholarship and the tens of thousands of college athletes competing for a couple of thousand pro contracts.

Moreover, this attitude, the "A" in OPA!, proved to be a important linchpin between mind, body and spirit.

Syria has served as the linchpin between the three and by removing Syria's logistical and political backing, which will inadvertently result from an Israeli-Syrian peace, Hamas and Hezbollah will be critically weakened.

It is the linchpin between the questions about purpose and measuring success: how should we incentivize the key executives and officers who set the agenda in boardrooms and the C-suite?

* "SOL LEWITT: A RETROSPECTIVE" Mr. LeWitt, a linchpin figure between Minimalism and Conceptualism, is celebrated in a retrospective that ranges from early, spare text pieces to modular sculptures to the colorful wall drawings he has been masterminding in recent years.

Last year Britain said the British Garrison Brunei, the last British troops stationed in the Far East, was the "linchpin" of relations between the two countries.

Mr. Kim has also, in some ways, proved a tough sell, raising concerns about a linchpin of trade between the two countries: the mining of minerals that feeds China's need for raw materials and North Korea's desperate need for hard cash.

Although Mr. Assad took a resolutely hard line toward Israel, many Western diplomats believed that he was the linchpin to any breakthrough between Israel and its northern neighbors.

By weakening Tokyo Electric, or Tepco, reformers hope to finally break the linchpin of the collusion between business and government that once drove Japan's rapid postwar rise, but that now keeps it mired in stagnation.