Sentence examples for had a leverage from inspiring English sources

That was the first time that Enron had admitted it had a leverage problem, and it came only after the brutal reality had become apparent to many others.

Chris Doyle, the director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, believed Assad's departure could only be orchestrated by the Russians, who had a "leverage of the regime", unlike Britain, Europe and America.

And at one point, we'd launched a bid where we had a leverage ratio of nine times.

Instead of a leverage ratio of 15, it would have had a leverage ratio of 72.

Its plain-vanilla banking unit, which takes secured deposits from customers, had a leverage ratio of 6percentt, matching the new requirements, according to Citigroup.

Citigroup, for example, said it had a "leverage ratio" -- the ratio of capital to total assets -- of 4.9percentt in the second quarter, just a tick under the 5percentt required by those terrifying new rules that bank mouthpieces have warned will crush lending.

I have a leverage with the Legislature that other governors normally don't have".

For instance, a bank with $3 in capital and $100 in assets would have a leverage ratio of 3 percent.

That average masks wide variations, however: China Overseas Land & Investment (COLI), a state-run goliath, has a leverage ratio of only 36%, whereas Shimao, a smaller rival, has one of 77%.

For instance, the Tax Free Puerto Rico Fund II has a leverage ratio of 53 percent, meaning for every dollar of customer assets it holds, it has roughly another dollar of assets bought with borrowed money.

This building has a leverage effect on Asian economies.