Word: lynchpin
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...large part of the Tigers’ offensive misgivings this season has resulted from Jordan Culbreath’s recent diagnosis of aplastic anemia. Culbreath has 1551 career rushing yards and has been lynchpin of the Princeton offense in recent years...
Leading tacklers and proven leaders—these are the factors that make the 2009 Harvard secondary a forceful unit, and the lynchpin of the Crimson defense...
...finally begun to depend on forwards and midfielders to score and generate more consistent offense in order to win games. It’s fun being a part of that offense and that type of scoring mentality.”And without question, Keating represents the lynchpin of this suddenly dynamic attack. Yet the junior, ever humble about her recent stardom, credits her teammates and the playbook for her newfound success.“A lot of my goals have been completely generated by the good passing of players off the corners,” says Keating, who occupies...
...later, she cited the University’s “collective obligation to face the situation with the right balance of short-term focus and long-term ambition” in soberly announcing her decision to slow construction of the Allston Science Complex—long considered the lynchpin of Harvard’s 50-year planned expansion. Now, with the University’s budgets critically strained, some have suggested that Harvard’s present fiscal challenges have arisen in part because financial planning for Allston was given short shrift by Summers, who instead set his sights...
...lynchpin of the government's effort to defuse the Taliban insurgency is Sufi Mohammed, a septuagenarian Islamist cleric whose Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law has returned to Swat with the backing of the authorities. "We will ask them to lay down their weapons," Mohammed says of the local Taliban. "We are hopeful that they won't turn us down." Mohammed's credibility with the militants is based on the fact that he waged his own violent campaign for Shari'a law in the area in the mid-1990s; he also fought alongside the Taliban when U.S. forces invaded...