Sentence examples for immense leverage from inspiring English sources

Such projects are rare, and construction work is erratic, so politicians with contracts to award have immense leverage.

If Anthony rejected a Nets deal, as expected, the Knicks knew they would gain immense leverage in negotiations.

Either merger would create one of the largest health care systems in the city, with immense leverage under the new federal health care law.

Far from being just one powerless competitor among many, companies like Google and Facebook and Apple have immense leverage, which investors demand they exploit to the maximum extent possible.

It does not take much prodding for officials to concede a potential contradiction, big enough to render Japan's nuclear policy almost meaningless.The key to understanding the contradiction is this village of 11,000, and the immense leverage its plant has over national nuclear policy.

The overarching reality is that both households and financial institutions are unwinding the immense leverage they built up over three decades.

We are seeing the deleveraging of the financial sector, the household sector, those two sectors went through immense leveraging for three decades.

They wish neither to encourage secessionism at home nor to alienate Russia, with its immense economic leverage.

They must wish neither to alienate Russia, with its immense economic leverage on their economies, nor to support secessionism at home.

The president has immense political leverage, having just won an election in which he pledged not to continue the Bush tax cuts for income over $250,000.

As I write in a forthcoming special report of The American Prospect, government has immense unused leverage to hold government contractors to high labor standards.