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The murders include a stomach being opened with intestines showing, a neck sliced, an electrical cord thrown into a pool frying a female victim who had all day to escape, an ax buried into the back of a male victim, and, to top it all, a couple are strangled by a rope during their sexual climax(..for added effect, the killer uses the breaker bar of a socket wrench as extra leverage to twist the rope as tight as possible snapping their necks).
What a massive desception this flick is, A movie based around a plot as thick as ice is on a hot-Summer night is usually something you don't want to step on, normally there would be some leverage before the layer breaks but beware step on this and you won't need a peddle you'll be swimming.
But, they use the charges against him as leverage to get him to assist them in finding out which of the other hotel guests is the spy.
It was in 2000 when I was there with a group of 'producers' trying to interest wheelers and dealers in a film project when we were suddenly 'adopted' by a television crew who attempted to use us as leverage to get themselves into the celebrity laden MTV party.
Virtually all politicians try to leverage their international status to boost their standing at home.
There were also signs of modest improvement in Europe’s relations with China, despite a lack of unity that continued to undermine its leverage.
The EU has even more leverage.
But anyone who is even vaguely familiar with the US approach to multilateral lending knows that no other country has been as adept at exploiting its power and leverage for strategic gain.
Iran has the most leverage inside Iraq, and Syria has become a vital crossing point for weapons and insurgents into the Iraqi battlefield.
Greece’s membership in the European Union gives its creditors significant leverage, but evidently not enough to change the fundamental calculus.
The “troika” of creditors – the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission – simply do not enjoy the kind of leverage over Greece that, say, the Municipal Assistance Corporation wielded over New York City when it teetered on the edge of bankruptcy in the mid-1970s.
In particular, they need to reduce the strategic leverage that dependence on Russian gas supplies gives to Putin.
In 2008, it was a combination of exploding asset prices and excessive household-sector leverage that fueled the global financial crisis.
Not only did they fail to mitigate the risks, underscored in the 2007 collapse, that new retail investors introduce into the market; they actually exacerbated them, by allowing, and even encouraging, those investors to accumulate leverage through margin buying.
Specifically, China needs prudential regulation that limits the use of leverage for asset purchases.
Moreover, once a market correction begins, the authorities should allow it to run its course, rather than prop up prices with additional leverage – an approach that only prolongs the correction.
And China has been happy to use that leverage, often in ways that its competitors consider unfair.
Fourth, GMS countries need to establish more robust surveillance systems and fully leverage existing channels for sharing information at the regional level.
By controlling the sea lanes, China hopes to gain leverage over India’s capacity for economic growth.
In the short term, Putin seems to have greater leverage, but the weakness of his position will soon become apparent.
Loan buy-downs can help keep the education sector “competitive,” and could prove to be a mechanism to leverage extra resources for education, for which capital-strapped countries may not be willing to borrow otherwise.
In short, China’s liquidity troubles are rooted in the recent buildup of leverage, which has triggered debt deflation.
Another strategy for advancing China’s transition toward a city-led growth model is to expand the role played by urban clusters that leverage the strength of first-tier cities to boost growth in less-developed areas.
The World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have each committed to using the IFFEd to leverage donations.
Leverage is increasing, with some $57 trillion having piled up worldwide since the global financial crisis began.
And that leverage – much of it the result of monetary expansion in most of the world’s advanced economies – is not even serving the goal of boosting long-term aggregate demand.
Now, as the largest and most influential member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Indonesia must leverage its newly acquired strength to confront the challenges facing it and its regional partners, while avoiding foreign-policy recklessness.
Now, with negotiations at an impasse, settlement building continuing unabated, no end in sight to the never-ending humiliation of occupation, and all other forms of leverage evidently exhausted, the Palestinians are going to the United Nations to seek recognition in some form of their statehood.
All told, these various initiatives are likely to leverage hundreds of billions of dollars in investment over the coming decade, speeding growth in the counterpart countries while deepening their production, trade, and financial linkages with China.
Significantly, it does next to nothing to alleviate the twin problems of excess leverage and inadequate saving.
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