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Democratic officials said Mrs. Clinton had not tried to use the Obama discussions to gain leverage with the Senate leadership.

Yet this scenario seems unlikely, and Mr. Ford's threat to leave Gucci may be only a way to gain leverage with Mr. Pinault.

The Flyers were prepared to make an offer, he said, but on the condition that he not use it to gain leverage with the Rangers.

Earlier this year, the case of Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist arrested in Tehran, drew international attention and sparked accusations that the Iranian government was trying to use one woman's arrest to gain leverage with the United States.

For now, the News Corporation's attempts to gain leverage with the gatekeepers may be limited to variations on the televison industry's standard tactic of using popular networks to gain access for new services.

Allergan may not even intend to pursue the lawsuit, but simply to gain leverage with the F.D.A. in negotiating how it can legally provide information on the off-label uses of Botox to physicians, analysts said.

But he also made it his business, while other lawyers were painstakingly developing legal claims, to be first at the courthouse, gaining leverage with a hasty filing.

In pursuit of investors for Ignite!, Mr. Bush has traveled to nearly a dozen countries, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel, which raises another potential problem with some watchdogs of political integrity: that someone abroad might give him money with the hope of gaining leverage with the administration.

The pitch: Control a direct relationship with consumers while gaining leverage with heavyweights like Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN).

Maybe it's a post-teenage reaction to all those years of gaining leverage with your parents by pretending to be someone you are not, or the result of 12 years of taking tests that make you race a clock, but by the time you get to college, you are pretty certain that the best thing you can do is let your raw feelings be known the minute you feel them.

News Corp. might also gain leverage in negotiations with Hollywood studios, which provide movies and niche channels for pay-TV systems across Europe.