Sentence examples for gained leverage over from inspiring English sources

Private health plans had gained leverage over the providers of health care through selective contracting, which meant that the plans would channel their insured only to a restricted network of doctors, hospitals, pharmacies and other providers of health care who were willing to make price concessions and tolerate external utilization control by the plans.

They offered data showing that CD prices in Europe fell more than 5percentt from 1999 to 2002, the executive said, and they argued that large retailers, including supermarkets, had gained leverage over the music labels when it came to setting prices.

Partly this is in order to gain leverage over the EU in accession talks.

Rules are contested so that one group of political actors can gain leverage over another.

Republicans are likely to find new ways to gain leverage over Democrats.

If she grants the injunction, and the lockout is lifted, players will gain leverage over owners in future talks.

Former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has also previously repeated allegations that the security services monitored abuse at the Kincora children's home to gain leverage over politicians.

Although the tactic appeared aimed at gaining leverage over Microsoft, such a tie-up with Google, the world's largest search engine, could run afoul of antitrust regulations.

Some speculated that Gemstar's chairman, Henry Yuen, 52, hoped to gain leverage over book publishers so that they would release books for his electronic book system.

Southwest fears that if consumers get into the habit of shopping for Southwest tickets on Orbitz, the site could ultimately gain leverage over the airline.

Federal money pays only approximately six cents out of every nationwide education dollar, an amount insufficient to gain leverage over important parts of the system.