The offer became leverage after Prokopi's legal troubles grew from a civil action to a criminal one.
Soon after, it settles in and becomes a new baseline, and worse still it becomes leverage for her to get a higher paying job somewhere else.
"Republicans are never willing to shoot their debt-limit hostage, so the limit has now become Democratic leverage against Republicans," they write.
An arcane courtesy has become the leverage that Republican have used to discredit and withhold effective response to the Great Recession.
As our multicultural environments expand, often our nonverbal differences such as social, educational and economic discrepancies, power dynamics and spiritual beliefs, become the leverage for our communication.
Mr. Ponturo, the first major outside investor in Leverage, will become chairman of Leverage, a new post, and continue as chief executive at the Ponturo Management Group, New York.
N.F.L. games, probably the most valuable commodity in televised sports, became the leverage that allowed ESPN to demand more money from cable companies, with fees nearly quadrupling in one seven-year period.
Companies care about proper licensing, and that becomes the leverage to gain revenue while still maintaining the openness and spirit of open source software.
"Warner became this leverage point for all these other Democrats in the state.
Though he was an advocate of a balanced budget in the Reagan Administration, he later became a leveraged-buyout specialist, and you can't do leveraged buyouts without, well, leverage: the industry depends on cheap debt for its profits.
