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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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