Sentence examples for exerted leverage from inspiring English sources

The increasing repression of religious and nationalist dissent by the Brezhnev administration had led to the explosive growth of a dissident movement, which exerted leverage by appeals to the west for support.

The White House has exerted leverage in education by prioritizing competitive grants, such as the "Race to the Top" competition, over measures that would increase school funding more evenly across the country.

It should sound conversational, useful, and practical rather than exerting leverage.

"Conducting this in public is the least effective way of exerting leverage.

But they could try to exert leverage through the annual bills providing money for Pentagon programs.

Nixon and Kissinger barely tried to exert leverage over Pakistan's military government.

It found a new source of power to exert leverage over these newly independent countries.

As a result, the government should have been able to exert leverage over other investors to come to a deal.

Many of them also use their voting power to exert leverage over a company's management at other times.

The SOPA and PIPA bills would try to shut down these overseas piracy sites by exerting leverage on companies here in the United States, where they do have jurisdiction.

The capacity of the Cabinet to exert leverage on party members guarantees that the government's business will be protected from opposition votes.