Sentence examples for increased the leverage from inspiring English sources

Legal experts say that by holding the threat of more charges over Vick, with the possibility that the three other defendants may testify against him, the government has increased the leverage and pressure on Vick.

They have dramatically increased the leverage and risks in our financial system.

In essence the government has helped large corporations remove leverage, while they have increased the leverage of consumers, through greater deficits and the collapse of small businesses.

The action significantly increases the leverage that states will have in negotiating with drug companies.

Karel De Gucht, the European trade commissioner, said the plan would "increase the leverage of the E.U. in international negotiations".

It not only increases the leverage of agents but allows them to reap profits from a successful television or film production.

One is that Republican victories in midterm elections, while increasing the leverage of Mr. Obama's adversaries in policy fights, have also increased their responsibility for producing results.

It also has the not to be overlooked factor of locking in Moscow to ensuring that its ally actually follow through with the requirements its being asked to fulfill, which in turn could actually increase the leverage of the U.S. in the event of a further breach from Syria that would surely embarrass Russia.

But the senior State Department official said fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, known by its initials, ISIS, had hampered the flow of American and other foreign assistance to the moderate resistance inside Syria, diluting the effort to increase the leverage on the Syrian leader.

Credit default swaps are "a way to increase the leverage in the system, and the people who were doing it knew that they were doing something on the edge of fraudulent," said Martin Mayer, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and author of 37 books, many of them on banking.

This in turn increases the leverage of Mr Newin and other coalition partners with networks in Thailand's populous north-east, Mr Thaksin's power-base.Their popularity will be put to the test on June 21st in two by-elections that pit Mr Newin's Bhum Jai Thai Party against Peua Thai, the pro-Thaksin successor to the PPP.