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

Many countries have begun to look at financial protectionism as a way to increase their political leverage.

Moreover, the relative increase in debt (leverage) in the financial system was similar on both sides of the Atlantic.

To help these domestic powerhouses increase their market leverage, the government often favors them at the expense of foreign competitors.

Indeed, it has almost furtively initiated dam projects to reengineer cross border river flows and increase its leverage over its neighbors.

Recently, UN Habitat has embarked on the following strategic partnerships to increase the impact of the Programme and leverage its resources

The first round of fiscal stimulus, supported by credit easing, led local governments and the financial sector to increase their leverage ratios.

Its objective is to explore new kinds of relationships with NGOs that will leverage mutual strengths and complementarities to increase impact and sustainability.

Leverage is down sharply.

Borrowing is also supported by an easing of credit standards and new financial products that increase leverage and widen the range of assets that can be borrowed against.

Europe is not without leverage.

The increase in leverage was driven in part by government policies aimed at expanding home ownership among lower income groups that have proven unable to afford that life style.

The EU has even more leverage.

Mexico, for example, recently adopted ahead of schedule the changes in capital requirements for banks recommended by the Third Basel Accord (Basel III), in order to reduce leverage and increase stability.

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.

It is unrealistic to call for an end to Russian gas imports, or even an end to Europe s major reliance on them, but the EU can increase its own leverage by developing alternative sources of supply.

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)

Meanwhile, savers are being repressed, asset prices distorted, and incentives to maintain or even increase leverage enhanced. Competitive devaluations, even if they are not policymakers stated objectives, are becoming increasingly tempting though they will not solve the aggregate demand problem.

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.

But that simply shifts leverage to the public sector, with any reduction in the ratio of private debt to GDP more than matched by an increase in the public debt ratio witness the Irish and Spanish governments high and rising debt burdens.

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.