The negative attitude is especially powerful when the hostage is of no use to the captors except as leverage against a third party, as has often been the case with political hostages.
Officials would not be drawn on the specifics of what steps Israel would take to improve conditions in the West Bank and Gaza, except to say they related to "leveraging the private sector" to invest in the territories.
And with little leverage except a promise of economic assistance, she struggled to coax the military and Mr. Morsi to resolve their rift.
I wanted to help... but I knew I had to real leverage except a good rap and good intentions.
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Israel is unlikely to benefit from this, except perhaps in the leverage it gives Turkey to negotiate for Israel with Islamic countries.
It was revealed that most of the models rejected the existence of a leverage effect, except for those with volatility breaks.
We also note that after the application of the time varying leverage, all models except ARMA show a substantial increase in their trading performance.
