Sentences with word «lynchpin»

But the above numbers got me wondering about how Lucas Leiva compares, in his role as the defensive lynchpin of the Reds midfield.

He has a good eye for actors; recent Oscar nominee Felicity Jones plays what could have been the thankless role of Finkel's girlfriend, but she eventually becomes a kind of lynchpin in the relationship.

Homes can go up or down in value based on macro-volatility or local area changes, but a great school district can act as lynchpin for strong values in a given area, and a life preserver when the market is rough.

After years of management struggles in the U.S. — Jonathan Browning was tossed out as CEO in December — VW and new CEO Michael Horn could stand to seriously benefit from employing the EA288 diesel engine as lynchpin for the brand's long - term strategy.

Those people who are writing off Arteta as a defensive lynchpin in the midfield, need to look at the rearview mirror.

Eleven points off safety and with their closest rivals having made useful additions — Reading reinforced their back line with Premier League loanees Andy Griffin and Zurab Khizanishvili while Plymouth signing Damien Johnson was Birmingham's midfield lynchpin not so very long ago — Peterborough chose deadline day to part ways with manager Mark Cooper after less than three months and only 13 games in charge.

It is hard to believe the composition and intelligence belongs to a man not long out of his teens, and one who has become the creative lynchpin for both club and country.

Jedinak may not be world class, but he is a key lynchpin in Palace's midfield and is probably being wasted there.

So it would be hard to say it's any kind of lynchpin within Insomniac.

There is an element to what Barnes is saying that is understandable, as every top side needs to have that attacking lynchpin to lead the line and deliver consistently, as seen with the likes of Luis Suarez, Sergio Aguero and Gonzalo Higuain around Europe.

And because of the death of series lynchpin Paul Walker late last year, I believe him.

OK, fair enough, putting aside the # 120M + needed — no explanation as to the problems of taking a world class keeper off a rival who hates us, nicking the defensive lynchpin from the current La Liga champions and securing the services of probably the world's most in demand player.

One potential headache for Garry Monk is the current lack of cover for Gylfi Sigurdsson, the Icelandic playmaker and lynchpin who is evidently enjoying life back in Wales after being underused and unappreciated at Spurs.

After what's been a wild year for NBC News» lynchpin morning show Today, it's no surprise the network would seek some stability in the form of a new contract for star co-host Matt Lauer.

Investigators have repeatedly touted the drug as a potential lynchpin in immuno - oncology, focusing on an enzyme that suppresses the immune cells Opdivo and a whole new class of PD - 1 / L1 checkpoints are designed to unleash in an attack on cancer cells.

I say we make it a regular lynchpin of this event, but that's just me.

Hopefully Arsenal will respond to this pressure in the right way and Arsene Wenger has certainly gone on the attack with his team selection, which is packed with goal scoring threat, although I am a little concerned to see that our creative lynchpin Mesut Ozil is not even in the squad.

Regardless of how the stadium proceeds, by the time the Americans return with their schematics in June, they will already know a much more crucial fate, that is, whether or not they have secured a spot in next year's Champions League, the all - important lynchpin for the Americans» plans.

So their interest in Peterborough United's creative lynchpin Marcus Maddison makes perfect sense.

The five - man midfield that Sir Alex prefers for these games will look to keep Milan's midfield lynchpin Andry Pirlo relatively starved.

The biggest loss for Pochettino is that midfield lynchpin Christian Eriksen is still a week away from getting back into the team.

Drogba possesses the sheer brutality and physicality needed for a strike - force lynchpin, but does not have the finishing skills of a Torres.

Chelsea's lynchpin collected the pass in midfield and made a defence splitting ground pass across two defenders from the left side of defensive midfield to the edge of the box, on the right, where Didier Drogba was to receive it.

Liverpool are considering RB Leipzig lynchpin Naby Keita as one of the options to dynamise their midfield in the summer.

Ahmed Toure was roped into a banter between Radio personality Efia Schwarzenegger and Hon. Kennedy Agyapong with the later accusing the former of having contracted the deadly virus through the former Kotoko lynchpin.

The New Labour lynchpin used an article in the Sunday Mirror newspaper to call on Miliband to give shadow Cabinet members not pulling their weight «the hairdryer treatment and kick»em out».

Unlike the mayor's race, with Anthony Weiner recently revealed as «Carlos Danger» the sexting king, there are no new salacious details about the other lynchpin of love, Spitzer.

How the complex formula will be adjusted is a critical lynchpin, and one to watch, as the budget winds down to the April 1 deadline.

In this response, several biochemical pathways converge on a single molecular lynchpin, a protein called eIF2 alpha.

The dramatic lynchpin of Hannah's script comes from a surprising coincidence described in Graham's 1997 Pulitzer Prize — winning autobiography Personal History — that the Washington Post Company was in the process of going public the week that the executive editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) got his hands on the Pentagon Papers and began working on a front - page story about them, disobeying instructions from Nixon's Justice Department.

but instead serves as an abstract thematic lynchpin.

Casting himself as a heavy in his own film, Haley gets several of the film's more flowery, belabored passages, though he fares better with these than Edi Gathegi (better known as the dreadlocked vampire in the first Twilight film) as the kidnapped son of a black criminal lynchpin (presented so unenthusiastically it makes the crime syndicate run by Harry Belafonte in Altman's Kansas City seem more like Scorsese).

The intentional changing or at least ignoring of it in casting the role of MCU lynchpin Nick Fury and producing a Black Panther film for 2018 and a Luke Cage television series for later this year doesn't bestow upon them immunity by any stretch of the imagination, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe seems relatively inclusive if at the same time mostly faithful to the mostly mid-20th Century created comic book origins - depictions of their headline characters.

As the family lynchpin with limited self - worth, her bonding with Eliza at the end of the film is a joyful surprise.

Abbott was one of the unsung emotional lynchpins of Girls.

It does become an endurance test, as the show's lynchpin humor of pregnant pauses and long, drawn - out sections of pointless stories and other gags (dialing a long phone number, trying to break into a house only to take the key and leave without getting into the house, Meatwad's attempt to tell why Carl's life is worth living) become redundant and tedious.

But there's one lynchpin everyone is forgetting, he says.

The 48th edition of Art Basel opened its doors today for the first official day of its week - long run in the Swiss city, and capped its VIP preview with an impressive array of sales that underscored the fair's lynchpin position in the summer market calendar.

You are a key lynchpin around which firms can launch offices, deliver new and better services to clients and become more flexible via mobile and remote working capabilities.

There's no mistaking this jobseeker is a pivotal lynchpin of accounting transparency and financial health within the organization.

Nigel is the absolute lynchpin of his friendship group and spends hours in bed on a Saturday morning counselling them over the phone after the traumas of Friday night.

Robben is arguably Bayern's best player — although teammate Manuel Neuer is the one shortlisted for the Ballon d'Or — and is a real lynchpin for success for both the German champions and the Netherlands.

That block was just one of many impressive aspects of play in which Sakho would look composed; a key lynchpin in the success of Palace's work to nullify the majority of Town's attempts to level up the scores.

Alex Bruce and Darren O'Dea are expected to join Patrick Kisnorbo on the treatment table, but what is of greater concern is the absence of captain Jonny Howson and attacking lynchpin, Robert Snodgrass.