Javier Hernandez, who had seldom been thought of as integral to Van Gaal's blueprint for United, was brought on as the spearhead and, but for a superb save from Tim Krul, he might have given them a third successive win.
If you will be attaching a spearhead, carve a notch into the side of the front of the shaft so as the spearhead can rest on it and be tied on.
"From now on, the government is spearheading the economics of growth".
He called on Americans to become the "spearhead of resistance to world conquest".
The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, an elite group of soldiers first created to help defend Canadian soil, but then deployed overseas to take part in the liberation of Europe starting on D-Day, led the spearhead into Germany.
It was fortunate, perhaps, that the "spearheads" on duty at the critical moment were paratroopers.
Mr. de Castro nonetheless stayed on, largely to spearhead the introduction last month of AOL's Version 8.0.
In the next few weeks it was Mr Cheney, not Mr Bush, who was in command on the ground, spearheading the battle for public opinion, while the Prince Regent remained holed up in an isolated ranch that doesn't even have cable-TV.
Mr. Bashiruddin Mahmood went on to spearhead the development of the Kahuta plant near Islamabad, which, according to a 1992 issue of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has the capacity to produce about 100 kilograms of enriched uranium a year, enough for half a dozen bombs.
"The White House needs to send some signal that they would welcome broader and deeper and heftier participation by Democratic donors who can do that, and that certainly has not been the atmosphere so far," said Harold M. Ickes, a deputy chief of staff in the White House of President Bill Clinton who went on to spearhead the independent efforts to help Mr. Kerry.
