"Abyei is the critical linchpin in the country's peaceful transition into two Sudans," said Eliza Griswold, senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
The all-star point guard is the team's linchpin: insert him into the lineup and the team hums along, disconnect him and watch the team sputter.
Reliability, the court has said, is the "linchpin" in decisions about whether an identification should be admitted into evidence.
In Mr. Doctoroff's view, Pier A could be the linchpin in the city's plan to pull together all of its waterfront recreational areas into a "harbor district".
The linchpin in most of these efforts is the "Jesus Film," which was made by the founder of Campus Crusade for Christ in 1979 and has been translated into 811 languages.
Months before Clinton turned it into the linchpin of its European strategy, Cheney was calling for Nato's expansion into eastern Europe.
Finally, how does a throwaway internet joke metamorphose into a linchpin of society as we know it?
Over the last 15 years, Mr. Deri built from scratch a political, social and religious movement that blossomed into a linchpin political party and Israel's third largest.
A1 Microsoft Shifts Net Strategy The My Services consumer information service, planned as the linchpin of a foray into the market for linked Web services, has been shelved.
