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Leach said that he felt that James's father, Craig James, tried to leverage his position as an ESPN analyst to get more playing time for his son.

While Tony Blair may be compromised in the eyes of many because of his role in Iraq, he will want to leverage his position as a high-profile Quartet envoy to try to promote genuine progress, and not only remain within the limited mandate given to his predecessor James Wolfensohn.

To achieve that scale-up, Sachs is leveraging his position as director of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Networkk, an organization comprised of hundreds of universities and think tanks created by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Michael Meacher, the environment minister and an isolated GM sceptic, appears to be using the green lobby to leverage his own position.

Mr. Ahmed, a former oil minister and head of Kuwait's national security council who is also president of the Olympic Council of Asia and the Association of National Olympic Committees, has sought to leverage his powerful position in sports to secure a prominent return to government.

Mr. James, who sold himself to an ecomonically troubled city in 2002 as "the Real Deal," has never attempted to hide his success at leveraging his public positions into wealth.

Israel's latest burst of anxiety about Iran comes in the midst of the American presidential election, leading some analysts to argue that Mr. Netanyahu is trying to use political leverage on Mr. Obama to stiffen his position.

Mangold said Cofield, who at 306 pounds might be considered undersize for his position, also used his leverage well.

"I think it is very difficult for anybody in his position to have any leverage," said Don Linky, president of the Princeton-based Public Affairs Research Institute.

After arriving with a reservation, Preston who also happens to be a person of color alleges that she was stonewalled at the door and only allowed in after threatening to leverage her position on the Advisory Board to criticize the establishment.

Gross contends that El-Erian's messy departure gave other executives the leverage to remove Gross from his positions of power, eventually leading to Gross leaving the company.