Lynchpin in a sentence

As the local authority's planning chair, he said the market was the lynchpin for its regeneration plans, adding: "If we can't do a market, where do we stand with all the other major schemes that back up the Local Plan?

Charlton was one of only nine players in football history to have won the World Cup, European Cup (now Champions League ) and the Ballon d'Or, with former Three Lions boss Sir Alf Ramsay noting he was the “lynchpin of our team”.

For more than two decades, she has been a lynchpin for relatives having to witness loved ones go through the emotional and physical trials of dementia and other illnesses.

He was a fundamental part of our family, like a lynchpin, and then he was gone.

In no time, however, the Dane became a lynchpin in the best defense in Europe which eventually helped goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen keep a joint-record 26 clean sheets as Barca roared to their first La Liga title in four years.

Loyalty is the lynchpin of this second highest order with stage six as fidelity to conscience which transcends interpersonal considerations.

Should Arsenal meet Inacio's release clause, Sporting may have no choice but to let the player go - despite him proving a lynchpin in Ruben Amorin's side this season.

The Ministry adds that access to the necessary capital for investment in infrastructure and technology to produce a high-quality dairy product is also a critical lynchpin of this agenda.

William has been in a lynchpin role, providing continuity, confidence and support to members in the school who were dealing with violence and disruptive behaviour.

A lynchpin of the New Labour project from its birth in the early 1990s, Lord Mandelson witnessed and participated in the feuds that dominated much of its 13 years in power.

I don’t think anyone expected Brewitt to be a regular in the defence coming into the season, but the problems in recruitment saw him have to be the lynchpin.

The collapse of Syrian government control in the north has sharply illustrated a shift in the balance of power since Lebanon's Hezbollah group, a lynchpin of Assad's forces, suffered catastrophic losses in its war with Israel.

The lynchpin of the film is the towering performance by Hopkins, easily ranking among cinema's all-time finest villains.

The most critical lynchpin, however, was the broad policy guidance that President Bongbong Marcos had laid out as early as his presidential campaign.

The other possibility is that China engages in a hybrid war in which they gradually escalate against Taiwan with a blockade being the lynchpin of that campaign.

This clearly implies that trade continues to be the lynchpin of diplomatic relations.

It reached its position as a lynchpin of the UK retail landscape by 1950, when Debenhams became the largest department store group in the UK, with 110 stores.

KL Rahul has emerged as the lynchpin in the side.

Lasith Malinga, veteran Sri Lanka pacer and lynchpin of the Mumbai Indians bowling since 2009, has opted out of the upcoming Indian Premier League season.

Many are linked to the JBS beef plant, which is a lynchpin in the Alberta agriculture sector, and anecdotally, the community of new immigrants and foreign workers who staff it.