lynchpin

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While the current study employed both methods, the lynchpin was in having direct explanations and experiences as a part of the data.

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  • While the current study employed both methods, the lynchpin was in having direct explanations and experiences as a part of the data. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • This is "Because the rest of the world recognizes that the United States performs certain indispensable functions, including acting as the lynchpin of collective security and a principal source of new science and technology."
  • It was evidence of the growing status of Ms Staveley - whose life has waxed and waned from turning down a proposal from Prince Andrew to becoming a non-executive director of a company marketing a cream similar to Viagra - in the testosterone-fuelled world of the Premiership, that she acted as the lynchpin in a sale that has the potential to transform European football. —  Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • No, the critical importance of equitable heterosexual monogamy (not to be confused with a debased heterosexual monogamy where a man is like an "owner" of his wife) is its nature as a lynchpin of gender equality. —  GetReligion
  • In it, its destabilization is suggested with the aim of undoing the nation's perceived role as a lynchpin in this connected chain of "dangerous threats" in the region stretching from Iran to Southern Lebanon. —  Countercurrents.org
 

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