Sentence examples for lever against from inspiring English sources

Mr. Blair also argued for a unified position on the Security Council, saying that would be the most effective lever against Mr. Hussein.

Mr. Bush, as a lever against failing schools, would give low-income parents whose children attend such schools vouchers that could pay for private-school tuition.

Now, they say, the tobacco wars and other legal battleshave taught that the most effective lever against corporate misconduct is the threat of court-ordered damage awards only a mass tort case can bring.

But Russian social protests remain mostly atomised, posing little real threat to the Kremlin.In some cases, including Rechnik, social discontent can also be used by the Kremlin as a lever against powerful local rivals.

One former senior intelligence official said that some officials in the government and the ISI thought the militants should be held in reserve, as insurance against the day when American and NATO forces abandoned the region and Pakistan might again need them as a lever against India.

During the three-month gap since the last such demonstration, the government has taken aggressive steps to rein in protest, most notably the use of criminal courts and investigations as a lever against leaders of the opposition, a path that Mr. Putin had for years avoided.

Medicare has few levers against long-term care hospitals — or any hospitals.

Success and assets were levers against debts, and Murray, to a degree, applied the same philosophy to Rangers.

At the same time, Israeli officials are aware that the aid package is one of the Obama administration's biggest potential levers against Egypt's military rulers — and a topic of debate within the White House.

This is not surprising, as previous studies reported that such coupling was significantly smaller when the task was performed under an isometric condition than under a compliant condition in which subjects moved the levers against a spring-like load (Kilner et al., 2000); moreover, some healthy human subjects do not exhibit such coupling even under compliant conditions (Baker and Baker, 2003).

They found that the pigs showed certain characteristic types of behaviour: they rooted in the soil, exercised their neck muscles by levering against fallen logs, built nests in secluded areas before giving birth, and used dunging areas well removed from their resting areas.