Economic leverage should be applied as well.

Leverage is down sharply.

Leverage is down sharply.

Regulators are already talking about imposing leverage ratios, as well as limits on risk weighted assets.

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

The EU has even more leverage.

Leverage was lower in several sectors.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

It was all the leverage he needed.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

Today is Europe s moment of maximum flexibility as dependence on Russian energy supplies grows, the EU s leverage weakens.

If implemented, his innovative idea would reduce homeowners leverage.

After all, America s global leverage is dwindling even as its army remains the most sophisticated military machine in history.

He underestimated both Ukraine s leverage as the primary conduit for Russian gas exports to Europe and Europe s influence as the major consumer of Russian gas.

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

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

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

Development banks, for example, can help leverage private sector investment.

Otherwise, China is likely to emerge as the master of Asia s water taps, thereby acquiring tremendous leverage over its neighbors behavior.

It is not as if maintaining its 1.3 billion in annual military aid gives the US any leverage over Egypt s behavior.

So, a normal commercial bank has nine to 10 times 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.

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

Thus, in gross terms, the leverage effects are larger than currently reported.

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

This week Standard Poor's, the rating agency, cited increasing household leverage, mainly from rising mortgages, as a risk factor for Asian banks creditworthiness.

But we should realize that there are fundamental causes for the imbalance on the US side as well, such as over consumption financed by excessive leverage and high budget deficits.

As a result, Syria is most likely to become an arena in which regional powers, with the backing of interested outsiders, compete for leverage.

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

China remains the only foreign power with any real leverage over Kim s government.

Can Rome leverage its richly layered history to sustain itself economically and ecologically?

Likewise, Russia has enjoyed leverage over Europe and its small neighbors through its control of natural gas supplies and pipelines. As North America becomes self sufficient in gas, more from various other regions will be freed up to provide alternative sources for Europe, thereby diminishing Russia s leverage.

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

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

Its handling of Mugabe over the past eight years has actually underplayed its leverage.

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

This ended up giving him control in Telecom Italia with a leverage of 26.

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

If one assumes greater leverage for private sector investment, the number would be higher.

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

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

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.

By circumventing Ukraine, Poland, and of course, the Baltic countries, the new pipeline promises greater leverage to the Kremlin as it seeks to reassert itself regionally.