Sentence examples for leverage to hold from inspiring English sources

That might give the Expos enough leverage to hold out for the Yankees' most attractive trading chip, second baseman Alfonso Soriano.

But Assembly lawmakers are wary of giving up their leverage to hold down tuition increases without any guarantee that the state would maintain other subsidies to the system, which are typically cut whenever tuition is allowed to increase.

The fundamental problem is that once the International Olympic Committee awarded the Games to China, the international community became reluctant to use China's desire to have a perfect Olympics as leverage to hold China to its own promises.

Jeffrey T. Atwood, Larchmont, N.Y.: Your column today was amazing, mostly because you managed to lay some responsibility on Alan Greenspan, whose independence gave him the greatest ability and leverage to hold America accountable for its spendthrift behavior.

The bezels are small but not invisible, which is important for a device that you need leverage to hold in your hand.

Besides the possibility to exploit the leverage to hold shareholder control, the hierarchical group structure has allowed a relative separation between the family and the business, resolving conflicts in the family holding company and leaving economic problems in the operating subsidiaries.

Conservatives, fond of both Randian self-accreditation and those proverbial bootstraps we're all supposed to use as leverage, tend to hold the single individual responsible for their own destiny, regardless of where they started.

The city's Olympic bid gave Mr. Holding the political leverage to make a disputed land exchange with the Forest Service that added more than two square miles to the resort's base.

If voters accept payment before the politician gets into office, they have little leverage with which to hold him accountable later.

A final deal has proved elusive, in part because of evidence that Pakistan's Army continues to support anti-Indian terrorist groups; the Obama Administration has the leverage in Pakistan to hold the Army accountable.

As the Games approach, though, the Olympic committee faces criticism — from without and within — for relying too much on chance and not enough on leverage in trying to hold Chinese leaders to their amorphous statements about change.