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Mr. Feinberg's political leverage has been weakened by the banks' speedy repayment of their bailout funds.

"To have that kind of experience to leverage has been extremely helpful," he says.

Apart from visits and statements by UN representatives, little tangible action or leverage has been placed on Sri Lanka to pressure it into upholding its own promises.

But Mr. Obama's leverage has been minimal, and in the end it may have been the threat of a Congressional bill's protectionist actions against Chinese products that convinced Beijing that it had to begin to free its currency.

Egyptians, of course, bear the main burden; Washington's leverage has been limited, despite $1.5 billion in annual military aid, and its good intentions undermined by years of inconsistent American policies.

In effect, they say, Mr. Kerry is insisting that the Syrian opposition sit down with representatives of a Syrian president who appears as determined as ever to hang on to power and at a time when the opposition's leverage has been diminished.

Earlier, its leverage had been more like 20 to 1: but subsequent losses consumed much of its equity.

And Ms. Clancy's clients, with lower leverage, have been able to undercut competitors who are struggling under greater debt.

John Elway also held further leverage, having been drafted the year before by the New York Yankees as an outfielder.

Yet former Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta argued that results might have been better if only more leverage had been kept on the Iraqis in the end game.

Public companies have an advantage today because private equity buyers who drove up prices in the last cycle using high leverage have been pushed aside, Mr. Holliday said.