Sentence examples for of a keystone from inspiring English sources

"There was a sort of a Keystone Kops element to it".

Among the population traits that can be critical to the persistence of some communities is the longevity of a keystone species upon which other species depend.

Either way, it's a singular treat: a Twin Peaks-twisted mystery, set in starkest rural France yet executed with the knockabout flair of a Keystone Cops jape.

While President Obama's decision to reject the issuing of a Keystone XL permit has been lauded by environmental groups, Republicans have vowed to make it a major campaign issue as he seeks re-election.

One trial began with something of a Keystone Kops routine, with all the lawyers and their clients getting up and switching tables after saying that Justice Pfau's staff had seated everyone in what were by courthouse tradition the wrong places.

Then a rusted, bullet-pierced road sign in the shape of a keystone, naming Route 14, oriented him, and he pressed on the accelerator with a young man's verve.

The secretary's statement at his press conference today was the first in which he branded as a threat to the peace the harassment of South Vietnam, a keystone of the non-Communist area of Southeast Asia.

Barbara Willenbacher, a German academic, notes that such zealots as Robespierre and Saint-Just made state control of successions a keystone of the French revolution.

A good example of such a keystone species within the human colonic microbiota was reported recently by Ze et al. (2012).

The sharing of information is a keystone of architectural practice and scholarship.

But their demise will surely be to the detriment of media diversity, a keystone of democracy.