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.

But its transformative potential is obvious.

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

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

Leverage is down sharply.

Leverage is down sharply.

Water running down is matter losing its potential energy.

In this sense, Europe s main task now is to leverage its already considerable strategic assets.

Yet, even in today s world, its energy potential is ignored.

Israel considers Iran a potential nuclear threat to its existence.

Likewise, Russia has enjoyed leverage over Europe and its small neighbors through its control of natural gas supplies and pipelines.

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.

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

Russia s government has also sought to showcase its growing military potential.

The EU has even more leverage.

Leverage was lower in several sectors.

Its political regime, its ideology, and its military and economic potential are very different from that of Hitler s state.

But America s potential output may be underestimated, and its inflation propensity exaggerated.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

It was all the leverage he needed.

But all too often the EU fails to live up to its potential.

They are wrong, however, about Europe s prospects for achieving its restricted growth potential.

Second, Israel repeats its claim that it has no potential partner for peace.

This is the difference between an economy s actual output and its potential output.

The plan appears to solve every potential issue, but what about its operability?

Potential solutions

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

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

And China, is, for the US, both its greatest opportunity as a market and its greatest potential superpower rival.

Likewise, even proponents of a no fly zone are doubtful about its potential efficacy.

Now incapable of intimidating anyone, Britain has opted for developing its potential to inspire.

Such leverage could in turn prompt a downstream state to build up its military capacity to help counterbalance this disadvantage.

Greece s membership in the European Union gives its creditors significant leverage, but evidently not enough to change the fundamental calculus.

UNOPS provides start up funds from its administrative budget only in order to leverage the first one or two projects.

During this time Novell also began to leverage its directory service, NDS, by tying their other products into the directory.

Imagine the potential.

You have potential.

Tom has potential.

If implemented, his innovative idea would reduce homeowners leverage.

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.

The paradox is that Iran's potential is embedded in its ideology as an Islamic state.