fulcrum

Less than 18 months after the 2012 election, the fulcrum of American politics rests once again in Central Florida.

It is, for these two sons, both born in 1964, the fulcrum for their great labors.

The lever of dissent has to be long, and the fulcrum—the immovable determination of the American president—has to be steady.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

The paper was, as Gleick writes, “a fulcrum around which the world began to turn.”

With this fulcrum Bayanne had been moved to negotiate a formal treaty containing all Napoleon's stipulations.

That human individuality may be maintained, man is uplifted only over the fulcrum of his own will.

Once allow them to get a fulcrum and they would move the world.

The fulcrum must be placed above the centre of gravity of the beam.

The centre of gravity must be as near as possible to the fulcrum.