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.

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

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

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

The EU has even more leverage.

Leverage was lower in several sectors.

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.

One outstanding feature of this revolution is the scope and scale of its disruptiveness.

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.

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.

This pillar relies heavily on planning, large scale fixed investment, and administrative controls, and its quality, scale, and relative efficiency were strategic to Chinese competitiveness and productivity.

Europe will reduce its energy dependence on Russia, review its strategic alignment and priorities, and scale back investment and bilateral cooperation.

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.

This absolute scale is known today as the Kelvin thermodynamic temperature scale.

A withdrawing power that first announces a phased exit and then pursues deal making with the enemy undermines its regional leverage.

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.

In these circumstances, Turkey has been able to leverage both its regional ties and its standing in the transatlantic community to play a more instrumental role vis à vis its southern neighbors.

Step on the scale.

Step on the scale.

Please scale the fish.

In its sheer scale, this may be the largest single energy privatization ever attempted in Europe.

First, there is the matter of its effect on low wage workers and smaller scale retailers.

I mean, is there a scale to it, at the smallest scale, or ...?

Instead, Europe must recognize which of its strategic assets matter to the world s rising powers and leverage those assets to gain influence.

Turkey s leaders understand that the country can best preserve and enhance its leverage with both sides by maintaining good relations with each.

Lucrative reconstruction contracts in Iraq gave America leverage to coerce its allies into submission Jubilee 2000 had no such weapon of persuasion.

By hinging China s market access on progress in resolving political, territorial, and water disputes, India can prevent China from fortifying its leverage.

Recalling in particular its resolution 55 5 B, in which it decided to fix the elements of the scale of assessments for two successive scale periods until 2006, subject to the provisions of its resolution 55 5 C,

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.