"lever" is an acceptable and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that means a device used to lift or move heavy objects with a small force applied at a pivot point. Example sentence: He used a lever to move the boulder out of his way.
They would further allege that when the off-duty officer tried to intervene, he was "threatened by the man armed with the tyre lever".
"Moody's believes that the downside risks warrant putting Spain's rating under review for downgrade," Muehlbronner pronounced with her hand on the lever – whereupon the euro and the stock market both fell.
"It's a classic strategy," Thompson noted: "bring someone in on the low end and gradually lever them up into higher priced – and higher margin – segments.
Run a knife along the lines to loosen them before attempting to lever the pieces out of the tin.
Unfortunately the stage manager, in what she later admitted to be a brainstorm, pulled the lever for the fire sprinklers instead of the curtain.
This week Muehlbronner stopped short of actually pulling the lever that will dump Spain through the trapdoor into a fiscal torture chamber that would have done credit to Torquemada himself.
But of course with mX, because it's a free model, they didn't have that lever to pull so when advertising went away from print, that left it very, very vulnerable.
I think we will see a succession of legal challenges to cuts using the Care Act, hopefully we will be able to use successful legal challenges as a lever to demand increased resources".
The chancellor said the heavily indebted state of Britain meant that he could not simply "pull a lever" to boost demand.
A rat poking the lever, hoping for a treat.
The duo hand-delivered pleas to the attorney general, Eric Holder, for "an immediate investigation" into Homan Square, and suggested that off-the-books interrogation may be a lever for long-sought justice on Chicago police abuse – and that questions over the secretive facility will not go unanswered.
