Sentence examples for linchpin power from inspiring English sources
But it would also give linchpin power once again to Shas, which undermined Prime Minister Ehud Barak and other leaders before him.
Northumberland had been one of the House of Lancaster's four linchpins of power at court.
Environmental groups are reassessing their willingness to see nuclear power as a linchpin of any future climate change legislation.
Kim's control over the military and his insinuation of loyalists into key command positions are a linchpin of his hold on power.
He is an architect of the multi-state legal effort to block the administration's sweeping national mandates for cleaner-burning power plants, a linchpin of its program to combat global warming.
It was precisely the infallibility of the religious jurist serving as the earthly deputy of the "hidden imam" that constituted the linchpin of the system of clerical power bequeathed by the leader of the revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Nearly a year into the Syrian uprising, the predominant view in Israel today is the former, that Mr. Assad must go, not only because he has killed thousands of civilians, but because he is a linchpin in the anti-Israel Iranian power network that includes Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
At peak output thats the equivalent of four or five big nuclear power plants and a linchpin of Californias mandate to obtain a third of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020.
But language is telling, and as I translated a novel about official corruption over the past year, one character began to emerge as the linchpin of the book's discussion of power and those who wield it.
Obama spoke only hours before the House of Representatives was due to vote to repeal the rules cutting carbon emissions from power plants that are the linchpin of the president's climate plan.
The linchpin of the regime is the absolute power of the clergy (velayat-e-motlageh-faqhi).
