Sentence examples for exerting leverage from inspiring English sources

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

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

Iran's supreme leader today urged the Islamic oil-producing countries to suspend their oil exports for a month to countries supporting Israel as a means of exerting leverage with these countries over their position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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.

Michael Weiner, the executive director of baseball's players union, said that conferring antitrust immunity upon sports leagues would restrict legal options that unions have for exerting leverage, leading to more work stoppages.

By providing resources to support GOP candidates and officials, and exerting leverage on them once elected, AFP has been able to pull the Republican party to the far right on economic, tax and regulatory issues.

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.