lynchpin

How To Use lynchpin In A Sentence

• Milosevic was brought down not by bombs, bullets, or a military coup, nor was he even brought down the ballot, although the presidential election of Kostunica was the lynchpin. Cynthia Boaz: Remembering Serbia's Nonviolent Victory
• The lynchpin of the production is the intense and anguished performance of Nesbitt. Times, Sunday Times
• He's the lynchpin of our team and crucial to my long-term plans.
• New organizing concepts and progressive ideas emerged during this period and they became lynchpins to the solutions of pestilence and urban design problems.
• And China is now a lynchpin in international trade and a powerful athlete in globe diplomacy.
• By the time the Bristolian trip hoppers were announced as 1995 victors, the pony-tailed creative lynchpin had already had a few too many lager shandies and started ranting and raving at the assembled crowd.
• A lynchpin is defined as a "pin inserted through an axle tree to hold a wheel on. Israel, Iran on Guard in Case Syria Falls
• The slaveholders who fought to maintain penal slavery in the Constitution understood that the criminal control system would be a lynchpin in the political economy of the post-Reconstruction South. Prison Slavery
• It is the chief who is the lynchpin of the whole system, employing craft specialists, and redistributing to his retainers and subjects the offerings of crafts and foodstuffs that are periodically paid to him (it is usually a he).
• And China is now a lynchpin in international trade and a powerful athlete in globe diplomacy.