Sentence examples for leverage to impose from inspiring English sources

In 2006, in his new job, Chiarelli had considerable leverage to impose his vision throughout the country.

That may give him more leverage to impose new rounds of belt-tightening in the present economic upheaval.

Without a fifth commissioner, the Democratic commissioners would have more leverage to impose restrictions on Time Warner and Comcast, according to a cable company executive with knowledge of the process.

"Such joint approaches give the EU leverage to impose conditionalities more effectively, thereby undermining their partners' national sovereignty," said AidWatch, which questions whether joint programming will lead to better and faster implementation as it requires signing off by many different head offices.

How convenient, especially as it finally gave Berlin the leverage to fully impose its version of hair shirt economics on those allegedly lazy southern Mediterranean scroungers.

The Olmert government, and the Netanyahu government that succeeded it in 2009, leveraged the public anger to impose stricter censorship.

The central bank also made clear it would support the Financial Market Supervisory Authority's efforts to impose lower leverage ratios, the relationship of liabilities to assets, on banks.

The Swiss central bank also made clear it would support Finma's efforts to impose lower leverage ratios on banks -- the relationship of liabilities to assets.

She was also asked at the committee whether the FPC should have urgent powers to impose tougher leverage ratios – a gauge of the risks being run by banks – and had annoyed members by saying she did not think such extra measures were necessary.

Given the lobbying power of the financial industry, there were reasons to doubt that regulators would be able to impose meaningful restrictions on leverage.

Cablevision claimed in its Monday missive to the F.C.C. that Fox timed the failed talks involving Channel 5 around the rights it still has, to the N.L.C.S. and World Series, to impose "maximum — and unfair — leverage" on Cablevision and inflict "maximum possible damage with its subscribers".