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

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

America s Perilous Pivot

America s Unhinged Pivot

A Chinese Pivot?

Europe s Asian Pivot

Trade relations provide another all important lever.

Europe s Smart Asian Pivot

Nuclear Disarmament s Asian Pivot

China s North Korean Pivot

Shinzo Abe s Pivot To Asia

A Pivot to the People

The Internet is a seminal lever in this process.

These move freely on a pivot.

The proportion of each is determined by the lever rule.

While many foreign policy pundits have focused on the US pivot to Asia, Clinton has also executed a less publicized, but no less important, pivot to the people.

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.

America s strategic pivot to Asia thus needs to be substantial and lasting.

Europe, by contrast, can use its agility to perform a smart pivot.

Meanwhile, with a genuinely inclusive and objectively administered constitution, Egypt could pivot back toward democracy.

If the Chinese are successful in shifting away from North Korea, they have to pivot somewhere.

The EU s institutional architecture facilitated the pivot from devastating and recurrent wars to peace and prosperity.

The latter has created a multinational consortium for emergency mapping of which UNOSAT is the pivot.

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

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

American diplomats have now abandoned the term pivot altogether, owing to its military connotation, in favor of rebalancing.

But divisive issues from computer hacking to America s pivot to Asia must not claim all of the attention.

Control horn A control horn is a section of control surface which projects ahead of the pivot point.

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 current was allowed through a wire suspended from a pivot above the magnet and dipped into the mercury.

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.

Neither the currently fashionable Asian pivot nor the Russian reset four years ago constitute the beginning of a grand plan.

Given this, America s pivot should be viewed more as a consolidation of established policies than as an abrupt, short term change.

If the Chinese are successful in shifting away from North Korea, they have to pivot somewhere. And that place is South Korea.

Although the US is certainly undertaking a strategic pivot to Asia, America alone cannot construct a viable security structure for the region.

After all, not only is Asia becoming the pivot of global geopolitical change, but Asian challenges are also playing into international strategic challenges.

Indeed, American foreign policy s pivot to the Pacific could not be undertaken without the US having first reinvigorated its relationships with Asia s democracies.

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.

Egypt is not the first country to struggle in the critical revolutionary pivot from a repressive past to a better and more just future.

America s so called pivot to Asia might have been necessary from its point of view, given the concerns of its Asian allies about China.

Unhappy with America s pivot to Asia, Xi remained calm, but emphasized that one cannot rely too much on military power regarding Asia Pacific diplomacy.

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.