The phrase "a kind of leverage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where one has an advantage or influence over something or someone.
Example: "In negotiations, having a strong alternative can provide a kind of leverage to secure better terms."
Alternatives: "a form of advantage" or "a type of influence."
For many, it's why so many powers take an interest in this country, it's a kind of leverage," says Timothy E Kaldas of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy.
All of this -- the engaging appearance and the ease of use -- is a textbook case of how design improvements, small in themselves, have a kind of leverage that allows them to gently nudge the urban spirit up a notch.
But his assent does not guarantee that the penalty will be imposed: during the nineteen-nineties, when the state waged a brutal campaign against Islamist militants, some were held for years in prison, with death sentences hanging over their heads, as a kind of leverage.
"What I wanted to do was use what I knew of Iran and Iranians as a kind of leverage against him," said Mr Limbert.
The larger issue, however, is that "Rupert Murdoch has been operating what amounts to a private intelligence service" which "gives News Corporation a kind of leverage over inquisitive regulators or troublesome politicians wielded by no other company on earth".
It's a kind of leveraging of friends.
"Just as the steam engine created mechanical leverage to do larger tasks, genetic algorithms are starting to give individuals a kind of intellectual leverage that will reshape work," Goldberg says.
He said: "If we want any kind of leverage, any kind of influence, if we want to keep the country safe and secure, then taking the unilateral route to disarmament would be a completely stupid thing to do".
"Hamas will use any kind of leverage in the current circumstances". The Gaza ministry of health says the number of Palestinians killed has risen to 609.
The community wanted to take back control of the streets; they used Kennedy's methods to gain a kind of moral leverage on the gang members, and the violence diminished.
