Example collocations logo

Leverage in sentence

1018 examples of Leverage in a sentence

He does not respond to European pressure, even though Ukraine would gain political leverage from closer EU ties.
Because the country’s debt will continue to rise, regardless of its leadership, China will retain its favorite source of leverage.
From asset bubbles and excess leverage to currency suppression and productivity impairment, Japan’s experience – with lost decades now stretching to a quarter-century – is testament to all that can go wrong in large and wealthy economies.
Urbanization is a building block for consumption, because it provides powerful leverage to Chinese households’ purchasing power.
The MDBs have been able to leverage large flows of private investment by mitigating risks and developing the capacity of domestic financial institutions.
For example, the International Finance Corporation’s China Utility Energy Efficiency Program has been highly successful in using small amounts of risk capital and money from donors to generate large amounts of loans, with a stunning leverage factor of more 100:1.
BERKELEY – The first two components of the euro crisis – a banking crisis that resulted from excessive leverage in both the public and private sectors, followed by a sharp fall in confidence in eurozone governments – have been addressed successfully, or at least partly so.
That gave market power to Russia, which used it to exercise political and economic leverage over its European neighbors.
LNG has now added a degree of flexibility to gas markets and reduced Russian leverage.
Countries that managed to leverage globalization, such as China and Vietnam, employed a mixed strategy of export promotion and a variety of policies that violate current trade rules.
But America’s dwindling leverage cannot match the influence of the region’s “axis of evil.”
(On this score, Boston University professor Laurence Kotlikoff’s more radical ideas for taking leverage out of the financial system merit serious attention, even if his own quixotic presidential campaign otherwise goes unnoticed).
Egypt’s government needs to secure consistent foreign financing to keep the country afloat, providing leverage for international opposition to Morsi’s efforts to impose an agenda that runs contrary to Egyptians’ fundamental rights.
Finally, Trump’s belief that bilateral negotiations give the US more leverage misses the mark.
In fact, by offering TPP partners access to a larger club, the US had secured additional leverage.
Some of the problems stem from the financial sector, which is once again taking advantage of low interest rates to pump up leverage in search of higher profits.
In 2014, then-EU Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs reported that grants worth €2.1 billion ($2.2 billion) had “achieved an estimated leverage of €40.7 billion in 226 projects since 2007.”
The problem is that the Fed’s liquidity injections are not creating credit for the real economy, but rather boosting leverage and risk-taking in financial markets.
It may be too soon to say that many risky assets have reached bubble levels, and that leverage and risk-taking in financial markets is becoming excessive.
In other words, the Fed will use regulatory instruments to control credit growth, risk-taking, and leverage.
But another Fed faction – led by Governors Jeremy Stein and Daniel Tarullo – argues that macro-prudential tools are untested, and that limiting leverage in one part of the financial market simply drives liquidity elsewhere.
Indeed, the Fed regulates only banks, so liquidity and leverage will migrate to the shadow banking system if banks are regulated more tightly.
Others, including me, argued that, given the excesses of private-sector leverage (in households, financial institutions, and corporate firms), this would be a U-shaped recession – long and deep.
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.
There is only one way out of the Gaza tragedy that can provide justice to its many victims: The parties to the conflict and the regional actors now vying to act as mediators must leverage the ongoing calamity into a grand peace agenda.
The people who run big banks like leverage: More borrowed money (and less of their own) means that they get more upside, in the sense of a higher return on capital, unadjusted for risk.
We should not underestimate the creativity of financiers seeking to escape capital requirements and leverage up.
If we determine which skill sets we will need, we can educate and train the human workforce to leverage all of the new opportunities that technology creates.
All of this implies high barriers to entry for new businesses, which face severely limited opportunities to disrupt, spin off, or even leverage major industries.
BackNext