Sentence examples for had leverage over from inspiring English sources

Police also had leverage over Griggs: he was a heroin addict.

It was unclear who had given him time, but whoever it was clearly had leverage over his decisions.

Zardari revealed that he also had leverage over Shahbaz Sharif, who through paperwork snafus, had been technically elected illegally for a third term as Chief Minister.

A dynamic formed in which the co-founder had leverage over the people providing him financing, meaning that Uber had nearly unlimited access to capital and relatively few constraints on its actions.

At first some development workers here thought that Mr. Karzai had inadvertently left them out or that the Afghan government was playing a game of brinkmanship in which it was reminding development companies that it had leverage over how they did their work.

We have leverage over Saudi Arabia if we choose to use it.

Brussels and Washington have leverage over Warsaw.

Bottom line: Nuclear suppliers have leverage over China.

And the central bank has leverage over the banking system.

"The Americans have no leverage over Sharif, only the Saudis have leverage over Sharif," said the Pakistani official.

A benevolent explanation is that it has leverage over its ally, Armenia.