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

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

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

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

Furthermore, why do small banks, which have no implicit backing from the government, also have so much leverage?

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

Accordingly, even countries with sound balance sheets and manageable leverage have experienced a growth slowdown.

Leverage is down sharply.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

Europe is not without leverage.

But the Europeans have no such leverage at the Fund, where Rato has elected to go out under his own steam.

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.

This tax would have two positive effects it would induce banks to recapitalize, thereby reducing their excessive leverage, while forcing managers to have more skin in the game.

The EU has even more leverage.

Booms have similar characteristics strong growth in banks balance sheets and credit, and therefore a rise in leverage.

The MDBs have been able to leverage large flows of private investment by mitigating risks and developing the capacity of domestic financial institutions.

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

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

I would have preferred bigger capital injections. I would have liked to see his administration use its leverage to replace the management responsible for creating the financial mess in the first place.

I would have preferred bigger capital injections. I would have liked to see his administration use its leverage to replace the management responsible for creating the financial mess in the first place.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

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

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.

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

Without Sharon, Peretz might have more leverage in the partnership, particularly since Olmert has been more willing than Sharon to embrace policy changes perceived as dovish.

The international community has limited leverage, and sanctions may have a greater negative impact on the population than on the coup makers.

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

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.

Nevertheless, China s leverage over North Korea is in part illusory.

So they also need clear, albeit different, limits on leverage.

If the main problem had been confined to excess leverage and risk taking within the financial sector, the economic shock would have been large, but the recovery quicker.

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

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

Now more than ever, people are calling to leverage social media for public social activities.

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.

But it must rise further, to 8 , in order to reduce the high leverage of household sector.

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

Thereafter, the earnings from these projects serve to leverage additional projects and to replenish the administrative budget.

It is important to use both the arms and legs to provide the leverage to start the push.

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.

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