The west has long viewed the Saudis as a pillar of stability in an unruly region.
Stella Creasy, the energetic MP for Walthamstow, has made this a central pillar of her bid for the party's deputy leadership but the field is crowded.
The school called Griffith a "pillar of the community" and a "champion for the downtrodden".
Women seem particularly attuned to seeking out not partners but rehabilitation projects, though there are plenty of men who reprise the pillar of strength routine when they could do with support themselves.
Putin has managed to destabilise every former Soviet republic and greatly damage the strategic credibility of the west – of which Nato is a central pillar.
But on the basis of the ICM survey so far, the long-promised swing back to the Conservatives in the final 72 hours before the election, the central pillar of the strategy organised by Lynton Crosby, David Cameron's campaign manager, has not materialised.
The first pillar represents the duty of the state to protect its own citizens; the second the duty of corporations to respect the rights of those citizens, and the third "the need for greater access by victims to effective remedy, both judicial and non-judicial".
"We will provide them with whatever law enforcement support is necessary and we are confident that Kenya, which has been a pillar of stability in eastern Africa, will rebuild".
Oh, and I'd like to get the ball rolling by nominating my Pillar of Society: Helena Button, who was an inspiring primary school teacher.
Which brings us to... On election night, as news spread of the "six pointless plan" man's defeat in the polls, Diaz's brother Jayson managed to crash the campaign van into a car park pillar, prompting the suggestion: "Perhaps he was trying to make a six-point turn".
In an editorial, it described the legal move as "a deeply worrying erosion of a pillar of our parliamentary system".
