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

So what we are asking in the lab is, how can we leverage that power?

America s traditional sources of influence its soft power, regional alliances, and financial leverage appear to be running dry.

Yet the mantle of a regional power sometimes requires using that leverage for the greater good of the region.

Urbanization is a building block for consumption, because it provides powerful leverage to Chinese households purchasing power.

But does South Africa really see itself as a regional power? Its handling of Mugabe over the past eight years has actually underplayed its leverage.

Leverage is down sharply.

Europe is not without leverage.

The EU has even more leverage.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

And so I do like something which is pointed, not blunt, something which is focused on reality, something that has the power, through its leverage, to transform even a very small space.

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

Urbanization is a building block for consumption, because it provides powerful leverage to Chinese households purchasing power. Urban workers per capita income is more than three times higher than that of their counterparts in the countryside.

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.

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 part of its operational priorities and bearing in mind its small size, both in budgetary and human resource terms, in the course of 2004 UNODC launched a number of initiatives in order to leverage resources and to exploit the power of partnership with Governments and institutions.

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.

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.

Significantly, it does next to nothing to alleviate the twin problems of excess leverage and inadequate saving.