"You don't always have the leverage to do that," he said.
I wanted to know how what they thought allowed them to acquire leverage to do what needed to be done.
"We don't have any leverage to do deals," said Mr. McIntosh, director of scheduling at the system operator.
But it sure would give us more leverage to do so — and more insulation from the sheer madness of the Middle East if we can't.
"You will improve the behavior of rogue nations and have more leverage to do so if they're inside the tent than if they're outside the tent," he said.
Many critics contend that giants like Google should put pressure on China to change; some industry executives respond that they have little leverage to do so.
FOR more than two decades, Robert Greenwald, a prolific television producer, has owned the films he made, which gave him the leverage to do such Emmy Award-winning shows as "The Burning Bed" and "A Woman of Independent Means".
They have said he should also use his considerable leverage to do something he has been promising for years: to reform the campaign financing system so big money no longer taints state elections.
People who plan conventions and other meetings decided early last summer that they had had enough of the nickel-and-diming, and the weak hotel market gave them the leverage to do something about it.
On the eve of a White House summit meeting, the crosswinds of public opinion on two continents have left Turkey and the United States in an unusual embrace: united in an effort to move Europe their way, but with little leverage to do it.
As we get bigger, we have more leverage to do more acquisitions.
