But even HSBC, the best capitalized of the lot, has a leverage ratio of only 4.6 , while Barclays ratio is under 3 .

Turkey s leaders understand that the country can best preserve and enhance its leverage with both sides by maintaining good relations with each.

The P 4 approach reflects the new global realities and seeks to leverage the best qualities of the private, philanthropic, and public sectors.

Leverage is down sharply.

Europe is not without leverage.

The EU has even more leverage.

Those aspirations may sound as if they are aimed too high, but I believe that development that fails to leverage the best of business is development that is aimed too low.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Belarus s reliance on cheap energy supplies from Russia could also be used as leverage.

Usually, it is credit that provides the leverage, and credit is by nature reflexive.

Increasing leverage boosts returns on the upside but is very risky on the downside.

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

Reforming financial sector taxation would also help to reduce excessive risk taking and leverage.

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

We need partnerships that leverage the knowledge and solutions that come from local communities.

Turkey is engaged in an intricate effort to preserve its old relationship with the West while building new ties with its Muslim neighbors. Turkey s leaders understand that the country can best preserve and enhance its leverage with both sides by maintaining good relations with each.

The idea is that deferring the warrant will give the Security Council leverage over Sudan.

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 tradable sector is expanding and is not dependent on leverage to generate aggregate demand.

So would citizens whose livelihoods are being destroyed by governments desperate attempts to de leverage.

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

The US should now leverage that relationship to work on regional and even global issues.