Sentence examples for first leveraged to from inspiring English sources

Fighting President Obama provided an easy alliance that Republicans at first leveraged to their advantage.

Clayton Dublier, which was started by the 80-year-old Mr. Rice in 1978, was among the first leveraged buyout firms to hire operations executives to improve the performance of its portfolio companies.

Sallings, who first leveraged Summize (now Twitter Search) to provide a slower version of Track over XMPP, was drawn to Identi.ca and its wide-open XMPP data stream as well as a user base willing to trade Twitter's larger cloud for a more focused and activist-oriented conversation.

Weeks after resigning from his old job, he was in discussions that would lead to the first leveraged buyout of an electric utility.

He excelled there, took a better job at a big Dallas bank and in 1977 quit to do his first leveraged buyout, with Louis Marx Jr. Hicks and Marx purchased a small aluminum window and door manufacturing company for $4 million and, after Hicks brought in a smart operating man, quadrupled their money in seven years.

The investors hope Mr Klesch can turn first-hand experience of bankruptcy into profits: his own investment bank, Quadrex, which led Britain's first leveraged buy-out, collapsed after Black Monday in 1987.Mr Klesch came to London in the early 1980s with an impressive pedigree.

He grubstaked Princeton pal Dick King, who began drilling oil wells in 1957, with $5,000; he laid out $50,000 to help found Donaldson , Lufkin & Jenrettein 1959; invested $1.5 million in Thomas Hicks' (FORBES June 1) first leveraged buyout fund in 1977.

It was the region's first leveraged buyout.