The phrase "a means of leverage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing strategies or tools that provide an advantage or influence in a situation.
Example: "Negotiating a better salary can be a means of leverage in your career advancement."
Alternatives: "a tool for influence" or "a method of advantage."
Once a useful tool for maximizing freedom of action, multiple sources of outside support are now a means of leverage to further constrain Palestinian decision-making.
The reduction had started in the 1650s as a means of leverage to get the high nobles to pay their taxes and agree to various acts.
Military power rests substantially on the willingness to use it: perhaps less so in war than in peacetime as a means of leverage and coercion.
No sooner than you can give her sympathy, Claire has turned her rape into a "means of leverage".
Kompromat is a means of leverage, to the extent that it can make a person commit a crime or do horrible things out of fear of being exposed.
But for Ferraro, and many Democratic elders, the superdelegate is not a means of leverage, but a failsafe from a time of chaos and turmoil.
He no longer even felt agitation to work up energy for more renunciation... Whichever way he explains it, one feels the primary function of the act is an attempt - increasingly drastic - to seize control over impossibly adverse circumstances; a means of leveraging one's very powerlessness so as to exert power.
In this way, divestment serves as a means of leveraging economic power to help bring about political, economic, legal, or social change.
With the existing JOBS Act rulings that allow startups to publicly advertise to raise equity funding, expect a growing number of celebrities to also leverage the power of equity crowdfunding as a means of leveraging their audience to more formally capitalize their startups.
This methodology solves non-specific background issues that plague large-scale enhancer trap efforts and may provide a means of leveraging promoters/enhancers that otherwise express too broadly to be of value for in vivo manipulations.
We have conceived of the evolutionary multitasking paradigm as a means to leverage upon the true power of implicit parallelism of population-based search.
