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Discover LudwigThe phrase "have leverage to" is correct and usable in written English
It means that you have the power or influence to achieve a desired outcome or to make someone do something. Example: "By having multiple job offers, we have leverage to negotiate and increase our salary." This sentence means that with multiple job offers, we have the power to negotiate and potentially receive a higher salary from our current employer.
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Menlo Park officials said that as Facebook expanded, the city would have leverage to negotiate additional compensation.
But some legal experts said the new lawyer, Mr. Mesereau, would have leverage to get Mr. Jackson to take his advice, given the imminent nature of court proceedings.
Meanwhile, federal prosecutors who have leverage to charge dealers in cases of fatal overdose under the Controlled Substance Act are taking on similar cases across the country.
Those who have opted to stick with the use of force, like the president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, have retained power and appear to have leverage to negotiate immunity should they leave, regional analysts said.
Unlike Iraq, moreover, North Korea is boxed in by countries that are rich or powerful or both China, Russia, Japan and South Korea all of which have leverage to exert and all of which have good reasons to ensure that Mr Kim disarms.And if they fail?
Ruby Ridge started out as a failed attempt to lure an Idaho survivalist, Randy Weaver, into committing a gun charge so the feds would have leverage to persuade him to inform on his friends at the Aryan Nations compound down the mountain.
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The dread one has is that Karzai wants to make sure that he has leverage to insure we tolerate a fixed election.
A Trinidad-Vargas title bout would not be as lucrative, but King now has leverage to use against De La Hoya in Vargas.
With this vulnerability, the leading figures in KADIN that potentially had leverage to open communication with state high officials did not give strong support.
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By owning more stations, a company has leverage to negotiate better deals with content suppliers and the pay-TV distributors that carry their signals.
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