The phrase "a form of leverage" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing strategies, advantages, or tools that provide a benefit or influence in a situation.
Example: "In negotiations, having a strong alternative can serve as a form of leverage to secure better terms."
Alternatives: "a means of influence" or "a type of advantage."
The complex economy is already a form of leverage: the leverage of efficiency.
There's good debt and bad debt; it can be a form of leverage if you know how to work it.
Predictably, physical beauty in "Fairest" is associated with vanity, fashion and insecurity; it is a threat and a form of leverage.
By appearing to exert control over assets that aren't necessarily his — at least not in ways that his pronouncements suggest — he exercises his real talent: using his name as a form of leverage.
As western powers deliberate over how to bring extra pressure on Gaddafi to cease his attacks on rebel forces in Libya, hopes are being focused on the ICC as a form of leverage on senior members of the regime.
But while Arab states used restrictions on oil exports as a political weapon in 1956 , 1967and 1973, China has refrained until now from using its near monopoly on rare earth elements as a form of leverage on other governments.
The fact is that any form of leverage is dangerous.
Justice Souter wrote that while the hallmark of the federal policy was a "calibration of force" -- leaving the president great flexibility to impose or lift sanctions as a form of diplomatic leverage -- the Massachusetts law was much more categorical in barring state agencies from doing business in most circumstances with any company that conducted business in Myanmar.
Middle-class environmental protests in Ningbo; repeated exposures of official corruption; and many other cases coördinated and amplified by the Web demonstrate a new form of leverage on the regime that will only grow.
What's more, the bonus loophole gave Romney a perverse form of leverage: If the banks and the FDIC didn't give in to his demands and forgive much of Bain's debts, Romney would raid the firm's coffers, pushing it into the very bankruptcy that the loan agreement had been intended to avert.According to the article, the FDIC-run bank was due $30.6m from Bain & Co.
They should use their power to suspend the court's indictment as an extra form of leverage on Mr Bashir but, crucially, they must add the threat to use force if Sudan refuses to make a deal.
