Assuming the lever does not dissipate or store energy, the power into the lever must equal the power out of the lever.

Trade relations provide another all important lever.

The Internet is a seminal lever in this process.

The head, or knob, is often ornately carved with faces or shapes that have symbolic meaning.

The proportion of each is determined by the lever rule.

In the 1950s they tried their best to muffle this sound with mercury switches and silent knob controls.

And as they slide their hand down the lever, they can push with a smaller effective lever length, but push through a bigger angle every stroke, which makes a faster rotational speed, and gives you an effective high gear.

As the lever rotates around the fulcrum, points farther from this pivot move faster than points closer to the pivot.

The biggest but most important challenge is to build and maintain good institutions. (...) transparency will be the most powerful lever for accountability.

The waiter, you know, came out with the white truffle knob and his shaver, and he shaved it onto my pasta and he said, you know, Would Signore like the truffles?

After the fish come into the net, the netting team presses the poles and uses the lever principle to bring the net up.

It is therefore no surprise that Putin has sought to use this lever to rebuild Russia s power and to revise the post Soviet order.

Gazprom is also Russia s main lever of influence in the EU as a whole, because the company supplies 30 of the Union s natural gas needs.

Productive and decent employment is the most powerful lever to ensure the stability of social security during demographic change and to enhance social security coverage.

And what we re doing is we re using humor as a sort of neuroscientific probe by switching humor on and off, by turning the knob on a joke now it s not funny ... oh, now it s funnier ...

But then I knew from experience and looking around in offices where there were chairs with headrests that nobody would ever bother to reach back and turn a knob and adjust the headrest to put it in position.

And now we're in this new model of leadership, where the way we make change is not by using money or power to lever a system, but by leading.

For starters, Chávez is a formidable campaigner, and he has at his disposal every available lever of state power, from the Electoral Council to PDVSA, the national oil company.

Secular, military, and Mubarak era foes of the Muslim Brotherhood have used every lever at their disposal, democratic or not, to block the Islamist parties democratic exercise of power.

As the protests began, Deng s chosen successor, Premier Zhao Ziyang, was tempted to use the mass movement as a lever to push harder for market reform, and possibly political reform.

We encourage donors to follow through on their commitments to increase effective aid for trade assistance to help developing countries take full advantage of trade opportunities as a lever for growth.

A simple machine, such as a lever, pulley, or gear train, is ideal if the power input is equal to the power output of the device, which means there are no losses.

The Internet is a seminal lever in this process. Today, President Mitterrand s mistress and daughter could not benefit from the media s complicity no state secrets, and no aristocratic excess, can escape today s bloggers.

While the Bush administration largely turned its back on Bosnia, the EU became deeply engaged EU membership has been the critical lever for pressing reforms in Bosnia since it was made policy in 2003.

On the other hand, if the distance a from the fulcrum to the input force is less than the distance b from the fulcrum to the output force, then the lever reduces the input force.

The lever for this process will continue to be the EU s central bureaucracy, the mechanism that formulates the member states common interests and whose field of action is determined by loose, and periodic, inter governmental collaboration.

In effect, rather than according serious room for decision making to his prime minister, François Fillon, or to Fillon s cabinet, Sarkozy has arrogated almost every lever of power to himself and his advisers within the Élysée Palace.

That is why so called system liberals, or loyalists who stand for Kremlin backed change, want to control the protest movement and use it as a lever in an ultimate fight with the siloviks (Putin s military and security apparatus).

Russia today has retained its strength only as a supplier of energy and other natural resources. It is therefore no surprise that Putin has sought to use this lever to rebuild Russia s power and to revise the post Soviet order.

A believer in the essentially political nature of Haiti s tragedy, Fernandez rightly aspires to turn the current crisis into the lever for state building, Haiti s extraction from political isolation, and its maturation into an active member of the regional and world community.

Unusually for a bird, the brown headed nuthatch uses a piece of tree bark as a lever to pry up other bark flakes to look for food the bark tool may then be carried from tree to tree or used to cover a seed cache.

Where the Red Cross view, adopted by Kouchner s former colleagues at Doctors Without Borders, insists that humanitarian action is a vital but limited activity that can be coherent and effective only if it understands its limitations, the Kouchner view is that humanitarian action can be a lever for changing the world.

I can make it larger or smaller, I can change its brass to silver, I could make it a lever. I can change your door, put colors on I can put windows in. I can change a thousand things about your door, and in the two seconds you take to open your door, you're going to notice that something has changed.