With time, they could leverage retained earnings, increasing their lending potential without additional paid in capital.

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

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

The hard part of fully realizing potential growth is shifting the composition of domestic demand from consumption to investment without adding leverage.

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

The North Koreans have violated their agreements, knowing that China, the country with the greatest potential leverage, is most concerned about regime collapse in North Korea, and thus the threat of chaos on its borders.

Nearly 7 billion dollars has entered the region in remittances, yet there is no single economic policy that attempts to leverage the development potential of this gift.

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

UNDP will continue to leverage its own Atlas data quality dashboard' to proactively manage data errors and potential risks associated with unapplied deposits, matching exceptions, bank reconciliations and errors.

Leverage is down sharply.

Higher leverage increases their payoffs when times are good as executives and traders are paid based on their return on equity.

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

And hedge funds, unlike banks, can leverage their bets, borrowing to take on assets many times the size of their capital base.

Europe is not without leverage.

Developing countries had acquired greater leverage in WTO negotiations and increasingly used WTO rules to defend their interests.

This significantly increases their potential to generate electricity.

But, if we help some children to realize their potential, are we thereby limiting the potential of others?

The EU has even more leverage.

Second, given their limited leverage, Afghanistan s neighbors must lean hard on countries that can influence any future Afghan government.

Subregional offices are well positioned to leverage their status as subregional entities as a comparative advantage in resource mobilization.

Others may decide to aggregate traffic with other operators and thus gain leverage in their dealings with global providers.

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

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

But African farmers encounter significant barriers to achieving their potential.

We must create the conditions to reap their full potential.

Banks must pay for their implicit government guarantee by using less leverage and accepting restrictions on how they invest depositors money.

Clinton also refused to regulate credit default swaps, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission allowed banks to triple their leverage.

Moreover, stakeholders find they have little leverage in participating in policy setting process, even though their products may be directly affected.

They are typically very astute at risk management, unlike many of the banks that dramatically increased their leverage and thus their risks during the last 20 years.

(By contrast, non financial corporations rarely borrow more than 70 of their assets, and often much less, despite the absence of any regulation of their leverage ratios.)

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

YemenPeaceNews Yemen's youth are showing their community and the world their outstanding potential today at TEDxSanaa.

That s because, in practice, job boards fail to fulfill their potential.

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

Young people, with their enormous untapped potential, can make their own important contribution to poverty reduction.

Consumers who represent 72 percent of the GDP of America have actually started, just like banks and just like businesses, to de leverage, to unwind their leverage, in daily life, to remove themselves from the liability and risk that presents itself as we move forward.

Investment banks with leverage of more than 30 times their capital in early 2007 are now down to little more than ten times.

Because what we did with these girls is to understand their potential.

America needs allies, and is not preoccupied by their potential independent strength.

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.

In the case of Europe, only now are banks being pushed to deal decisively with their capital shortfalls, leverage problems, and residual weak assets.

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