Sentence examples for lever with which from inspiring English sources
President Trump just lost a lever with which to shape his own future.
But they also give a child a lever with which to prise open the world.
Mr. Sharon's plight gave the Bush administration a lever with which to lift the siege on Mr. Arafat.
Anything that is deemed to have a "cutting edge" is a lever with which publishers can sell their products to book chains.
Then he turned the question around, and asked about American journalism, "Can't you be independent, and free of influence, and still rely on advertising?" Han doesn't like carrying the ads on his site, he said, but entrusting his work to a conventional Chinese publication would give the authorities another lever with which to silence him.
Once Pakistan had crossed the nuclear threshold too, matching India test for test, it saw its nuclear deterrent as a lever with which to crank the Kashmir issue up the international agenda, while at the same time neutralising India's superiority in tanks and guns.In this section After Kashmir All sewn up?
France has seen house price appreciation, but less of that has been translated into consumption, and the current-account deficit is smaller than Spain's.In sum, continental Europe had weaker policy levers with which to respond to a drop in investment demand, and it used those levers more reluctantly.
Here's the dirty little secret of the foreign-policy pundit/expert orgy on what to do about Crimea: the US has at its disposal very few levers with which to change Russia's behavior, at least in the near-term.
The alternative is what happened here; people who vaguely wanted to help — inasmuch as the oppressive nihilism of their automated professional constraints had left them with any sympathy at all — but were completely unable to do so, because their software and business processes gave them no tools, no levers with which they might do their job in any meaningful way.
Aristotle's example of such an unnatural mover is the lever, an object heavy by nature, with which loads can be lifted (Physics 8.4, 255a20 23).
A response on either the active or inactive lever retracted both levers, which were reinstated 7 sec after the response.
