Sentence examples for exert his leverage from inspiring English sources

The US secretary of state, John Kerry, is travelling to Moscow this week to gauge the extent to which the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is willing, following his surprise decision last week to undertake a partial military withdrawal, to exert his leverage over the Assad regime.

Apparently, Charles Cullen, a New Jersey nurse who confessed to sneaking into hospital rooms late at night and injecting patient after patient with deadly amounts of drugs, is trying to exert his last bits of leverage from a solo cell in the Somerset County jail before he is sent away for life.

Unarmed, how could my villain exert his power?

But at the same time, his leverage is limited.

Pantaleone used his leverage with the left wing press.

Few Americans understand how hard it is for the federal government to exert any leverage on educational change.

Those now in talks can exert more leverage than suitors could before the economy's near-death experience.

The portals, recognizing that only they could deliver such traffic, were able to exert this leverage to land multiyear advertising deals that often topped $100 million.

While yesterday's ruling does nothing to change Mr. Yuen's contract or the composition of the board, Mr. Murdoch could exert new leverage with Gemstar's outside shareholders.

Some powerful unions, which expect to exert more leverage in the new Congress, remain deeply opposed to the temporary worker program in the Senate bill.

What the mixed responses pointed to was that, right from the start, The Satanic Verses affair was less a theological dispute than an opportunity to exert political leverage.