This means a strategy based on political leverage not a threat of military intervention or regime change.

Finally, increasing financial leverage means that the firm uses more debt financing relative to equity financing.

UNICEF aimed to support access to, and completion of, quality education for all children as their basic human right and a means to leverage gains in other sectors.

Leverage is down sharply.

We need to, for example, embrace the big data, the knowledge that is there from market leaders who understand what it means to use and leverage big data.

Europe is not without leverage.

The EU has even more leverage.

All of this implies that connectedness will remain a double edged sword the leverage it provides being fraught with vulnerability. And that means that we can count on more surprises in store for states.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

Russia sees its relations with Iran as a means to leverage its influence in wider Middle East diplomacy, where the US has successfully sought to exclude the Kremlin from influence since the end of the Cold War.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

Russia views its relations with Iran as a means to leverage its diplomatic influence in the wider Middle East, where the US has sought (successfully) to marginalize the Kremlin since the Cold War s end.

The leverage of any public entity must be monitored, supervised, and restricted.

But offsetting fiscal austerity with ultra easy monetary policies risks fueling a resurgence of private leverage in advanced economies and already has produced the dangerous spillover of rising leverage in emerging economies.

But America s dwindling leverage cannot match the influence of the region s axis of evil.

Finally, the leverage of financial investments remains very low compared to other countries.

Banks balance sheets are systemically dangerous when bloated by leverage, and it is this that regulatory or fiscal policy should address through liquidity buffers and leverage ratios.

With little leverage, Iran s leaders would then have two options.

Nevertheless, China s leverage over North Korea is in part illusory.

So they also need clear, albeit different, limits on leverage.

There are many reasons for the underpricing of risk and the rise in leverage.

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

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

The main argument is that high leverage contributes powerfully to systemic risk a condition in which asset prices move in a highly correlated way, and distress, when it occurs, spreads quickly. Leverage is also partially caused by misperceptions of risk and mispricing of liquidity. It is desirable to constrain leverage, but not to the point of increasing the cost of capital and investment.

The presidents of Uganda and Tanzania, and the international community in general, also exerted leverage.

Expanding such channels, especially during a period of potential political change, will strengthen US leverage.

The central problem is that Europeans have squandered their most powerful source of leverage unity.

Those mistakes led to an underpricing of risk and the resulting increase in excessive leverage.

We have never had as many means of communication, means of being connected, means of reaching out, means of including.

Nowadays, the West does not have the leverage to enforce these conditions.

In theory, all of these factors are potential sources of leverage for outside powers like the US.

In other words, we should leverage imbalances of one kind to redress imbalances of the other kind.

As a result, they appear to be playing into Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh s hands. Saleh wants to use the London conference as a means to leverage Western backing, particularly military aid, to pursue his wars against the Houthis and the southern secessionists.

Some propose bringing in the European Central Bank to leverage the EFSF s funds.

When times are good, rising leverage can make underlying problems seem to disappear.

China remains the only foreign power with any real leverage over Kim s government.

Leverage in some emerging markets household and corporate sectors has reached record levels.

As a result, by 2010, China s overall leverage ratio had risen by 30 .

And limits on financial institutions leverage will change only in the next decade.

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

But it must rise further, to 8 , in order to reduce the high leverage of household sector.

The Fund has little leverage over the big countries that are at the heart of the problem.