One is leverage.

And then the government sat on it and used it for political leverage on Moi, who was the richest man still is the richest man in Kenya.

Chinese banks are being pushed to expand their role in global commerce. Many countries have begun to look at financial protectionism as a way to increase their political leverage.

How do you leverage that information?

Given this, it is understandable that France prefers fiscal to political unification. But if other European countries accept this preference, and Europe continues along its unbalanced integration path, there will be no leverage to convince France to support political union.

But it's not how you actually get leverage.

It's very cheap. We have a lot of leverage.

It shows leverage, trended out from 1919 to 2009.

The one thing about this is it gives us extraordinary leverage.

So, a normal commercial bank has nine to 10 times leverage.

So there's huge leverage for making the car a lot lighter.

International agencies could use their leverage to help make this happen.

(c) Domestic economic considerations (leverage farming activities, increased domestic protein production)

Why not leverage the learnings that you've been learning your entire life?

We're using whatever leverage we have to bring them to the table.

And those three together, I think, give you leverage in the world.

Matty has found this ingenious way to leverage the kindness of strangers.

It's because there's a little more leverage in terms of the Chinese.

UNDP will also review opportunities to leverage unused PeopleSoft modules (para. 104).

In its turn, the international community is expected to honour its pledges and commitments, while key partners must work together to bring maximum political leverage and practical and financial support to bear on all aspects of the peace processes.

That pattern came to a sudden stop in the financial crisis of 2008. Private sector leverage declined and public sector leverage reached and exceeded sustainable limits, with Greece being only the most extreme example.

What does not help and in fact backfires is for outsiders to view the political crisis of Middle Eastern societies as the result of an Islamist secularist divide. This perspective plays directly into the hands of authoritarian rulers like Erdoğan, who can leverage the perceived Islamophobia of foreign powers to mobilize their political base.

You might argue about the sanity of it, but the leverage is real.

They should consciously recognize that they've built an appointment dynamic and leverage the games.

We can now leverage microfluidics, like this chip made by Steve Quake at Stanford.

And the problem with leverage is it makes the U.S. financial system look like this.

He knows that a US led military effort can significantly weaken the Islamic State, but that only a combined military political effort can defeat it. He created political leverage for himself by drawing a clear line, announcing that the US would expand our efforts beyond protecting our own people and humanitarian missions only together with the newly formed Iraqi government.

50 years in which loosely coordinated groups are going to be given increasingly high leverage, and the more those groups forego traditional institutional imperatives like deciding in advance what's going to happen, or the profit motive the more leverage they'll get.

It was stated that efforts to leverage financing through cooperation with international financial institutions should continue.

Regulators have recently woken up to the incentives for excessive leverage in this sector and to the risks that such leverage poses to lenders and the broader economy. Not surprisingly, big private equity firms seem determined to ignore or otherwise circumvent new restrictions.

Thereafter, the earnings from these projects serve to leverage additional projects and to replenish the administrative budget.

International leverage appeared necessary to clear these deadlocks, which were not primarily of Bosnia and Herzegovina's making.

Seeing such data, one cannot help but be stupefied. According to the statistical data of Suning Financial Research Institute, the leverage ratio of Chinese households was only 3 in 1996 and 18 in 2008. But this figure doubled in just six years since the trend of rapid growth of leverage ratio set in, reaching 36.4 . By the third quarter of 2017, the leverage ratio of households has reached 48.6 .

Making matters worse, the US has continually refrained from using its substantial leverage to compel Israel to change course, owing to the domestic political strength of the pro Israel lobby, especially the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Tellingly, Kerry appointed Martin Indyk a British born Australian citizen, who began his political career in the US working for AIPAC in the early 1980s as the principal US facilitator.

Consumers who represent 72 percent of the GDP of America have actually started, just like banks and just like businesses, to de leverage, to unwind their leverage, in daily life, to remove themselves from the liability and risk that presents itself as we move forward.

If you put up a prize, you can get literally a 50 to one leverage on your dollars.

And that attention would help leverage the situation, as well as all of the other sides of it.

There are times when the leverage of powerful States including permanent members of the Council can be crucial.

Developing countries had acquired greater leverage in WTO negotiations and increasingly used WTO rules to defend their interests.

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Likewise, the US worries that China may use the AIIB to advance China s economic and political interests. But anyone who is even vaguely familiar with the US approach to multilateral lending knows that no other country has been as adept at exploiting its power and leverage for strategic gain.

Increasing corruption within governments run by the Congress party, which led India to independence and monopolized political power for decades, showed what a lucrative career politics had become. Given India s religious, caste, and linguistic divides, politicians saw how easily they could leverage even a small following into votes.

Likewise, Russia has enjoyed leverage over Europe and its small neighbors through its control of natural gas supplies and pipelines. As North America becomes self sufficient in gas, more from various other regions will be freed up to provide alternative sources for Europe, thereby diminishing Russia s leverage.

We leverage a lot of technology from the state of the art in general aviation and from automotive racing.

And one of the unique capabilities that we leverage with the MR is the ability to measure temperature noninvasively.