Sentence examples for leverage to convince from inspiring English sources

The breakup of Pakistan would be a costly and destabilizing development that can still be avoided, but only if the United States and other foreign donors use their enormous aid leverage to convince Islamabad that it should not only put the 1973 Constitution back into effect, but amend it to go beyond the limited degree of autonomy it envisaged.

The defamation case itself centred on a meeting Palmer had with then-deputy premier Jeff Seeney in 2012 in which he allegedly tried to use his political donations as leverage to convince the government to allow the development of "Port Palmer" at Abbot Point and give him exclusive access to a rail corridor to the Galilee Basin.

On the political side, other international leaders — in particular, President Barack Obama, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other leaders from Asia, the nonaligned movement and the Commonwealth — must urgently use their leverage to convince the Sri Lankan government to stop its offensive.

At a news conference Monday, Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, a Metro board member, accused labor leaders of "greenmail" tactics—using the environmental law as leverage to convince Kinkisharyo to promise that its workforce would be unionized.

Manafort, 68, could face a stiff federal prison sentence if convicted, which gives Mueller's team serious leverage to convince him to fully cooperate in the probe about the campaign's connections to Russia.

In a speech to an economic development agency last month, Lugar indicated he understood that losing time on the issue means losing leverage to convince countries like China and India to act.

The positive furor over the KIQQ playtest provided Dowd with the leverage needed to convince Scotti Bros. to offer a contract for Yankovic's first album.

Flip could do something similar – leverage its brand to convince handset manufacturers to Flip-certify their devices.

Forming alliances with carriers in countries like Indonesia, where Facebook is already popular, gives it more leverage when trying to convince them to implement services like zero-rating, which has landed Facebook in hot water with net neutrality advocates.

Find an expert and leverage his/her position to convince consumers of a "truth".

Ath: While I don't think there's much leverage in trying to convince believers that they are wrong, I do believe there is value in trying to convince the hundreds of millions of agnostics that we should move beyond theism.