Sentence examples for leverage to influence from inspiring English sources

"The administration is being hammered but it has no leverage to influence events," Cook said.

Pakistan has long used both ethnic and religious leverage to influence Afghanistan, whether through the Pashtun fundamentalist warlord and politician Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in the 1980's or the Taliban after 1994.

Sinan Ulgen, a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, said the protests in Istanbul had laid bare the extent to which a distracted European Union had lost leverage to influence Mr. Erdogan's behavior.

So far the Chinese have insisted that they have no plans to use their financial leverage to influence American policy — just as Mr. Obama has said he will not use the government's role as the majority shareholder in General Motors to dictate what kind of cars the company makes.

But as the transitional government came to depend on Libya Shield and its imitators, the militia leaders also used their leverage to influence the government, most notably in pushing for the passage last month of a law barring former senior Qaddafi government officials from public posts for 10 years.

If a cartel is formed, it will likely include Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Qatar, Indonesia and Algeria, Tsafos says, but he is skeptical that the organization would have enough political leverage to influence prices if it wanted to do so.

These two grievances are often exploited in the radicalisation process, and may have been leveraged to influence Emwazi to go to Syria.

Includes a systemic view of the variety of actors in the broader environment and a strategic understanding of how they can be leveraged to influence the scaling-up process [ 8].

Google insists that Motorola will operate as a separate entity — but at the very least, they'll be able to sneakily leverage Motorola to influence Android's hardware ecosystem as a whole.

True daughters of Britannia like the Brontës, George Eliot — even Woolf — were raised to believe that their greatest worldly leverage, their route to influence in art, politics, or any public arena, resided in abstention.

While 95percentt of college and university presidents don't want concealed carry on campus either, only about 400 out of 4,500 have signed this official letter from our partners at The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, an org that will leverage the letter to influence state legislatures on the issue.