A simple chain and padlock was all that held it.
Here are the missing links of the very simple chain: 1.
It's a simple chain of logic, once that first step is accomplished.
The statutes state that the badge could be hung on a simple chain, and later it was suspended from a black ribbon.
Also, episcopal polity is not usually a simple chain of command.
And at the end, as one sits with the Sam Mother, it is the emotional resolution that remains, not the simple chain of events.
Somehow, a simple chain of causality wasn't enough to explain what had happened to her.
On such simple chains of causes my mind can act with a certain confidence in its power.
An example of a simple open chain is a serial robot manipulator.
Around her brow was a simple chain of little red flowers.