Sentence examples for had considerable leverage from inspiring English sources

In 2006, in his new job, Chiarelli had considerable leverage to impose his vision throughout the country.

Even Ukraine, a country where Gazprom once had considerable leverage and could sell gas at very high prices, is no longer a reliable customer.

Bear Stearns appears to have considerable leverage in setting the price since the market is illiquid.

As the world's largest non-OPEC exporter, Russia has considerable leverage over world oil prices.

Both also remain poor and heavily dependent on aid, so donors have considerable leverage.

The EU also has considerable leverage with Bangkok but, like Washington, has failed so far to exert behaviour-changing pressure.

As a big provider of financial assistance, the United States has considerable leverage over the South Sudanese government.

At the heart of the problem for Flow is that it has considerable leverage at a time when investors are suddenly more concerned about balance sheets.

But as an offshoot of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the main opponent to the regime of the ageing Hosni Mubarak, Hamas has considerable leverage over Egypt.

Because of H.P.'s broad line of PCs, printers and other consumer electronics, it also has considerable leverage over electronics retailers around the world for scarce shelf space.

But issuers that raise a lot of money in the debt markets have considerable leverage, given how much they pay Wall Street banks to underwrite their debt.