The phrase "act as levers for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that serves as a means to influence or facilitate a change or action.
Example: "The new policies will act as levers for improving employee productivity and engagement."
Alternatives: "serve as tools for" or "function as mechanisms for".
Geometric modelling of the avian rib cage indicated that UP act as levers that improve the mechanical advantage for forward rotation of the dorsal ribs and therefore ventral movement of the sternum during inspiration [12].
Participants in this study emphasised that issues of training interpreters, monitoring professional practice, financial compensation for interpreters and the challenges of organising bookings for interpreted consultations may act as levers or barriers to implementation of existing guidelines.
Both firms use crowd-based technologies as levers for active and direct public participation in long-term investment in talent.
It is hoped that the principle of transparency and reporting will act as a lever for change – if companies know and have to report on their procurement impacts, then many will manage those impacts more responsibly.
They think that it could act as a lever for their recruitment and retention.
When the earth slip occurred during the Civil War, these remaining timbers acted as levers, furthering the cracking and structural instability of the tunnel.
Muscles, tendons, teeth, periosteum, and endosteum are intimately connected to and anchored in the calcified structure of bone by elastin-rich collagenous Sharpey fibres which "integrate into a periosteal Sharpey fiber-endosteum (PSE) structural continuum" allowing muscular forces to act on bone in its function as lever for movement withstanding static and dynamic loading forces.
In other words, the border security push acted as a lever for long-term undocumented immigration.
The elbows and knees angle decreases which act as a lever (Third Class Lever), counter action of upper and lower extremities can be seen to balance the body.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.04718.001 Although there are many different movements an animal can make with its limbs from reaching to walking they all basically involve two sets of muscles that act as opposing levers around each joint.
