Sentence examples for leveraging itself from inspiring English sources

Now, Express Scripts is using the same weapon employed by private equity and leveraging itself or borrowing against the combined company to try to win Caremark.

Google holds $13 billion in liquid assets, on par with IBM, which is leveraging itself to buy back stock and keep earnings per share respectable.

A high equity ratio indicates that the firm is not leveraging itself very much, meaning that it funds its assets primarily through equity (ownership).

A low equity ratio indicates that the firm is leveraging itself heavily, meaning it is using debt to fund its assets.

Similarly, Northern Rock was only able to leverage itself to a frightening degree because it had relied upon investment banks to flog its securitised packages of mortgages.

Your publication has gradually become less like the Book Review and more like People magazine, attempting at every turn to leverage itself on the celebrity of those it covers.

How can you leave Manhattan when the authority, your pet project, is about to over-leverage itself into a $23 billion debt conundrum, when the school system, for which you were an unsuccessful candidate for interim chancellor earlier this year, is in "a dreadful situation," to paraphrase your lament?

Note that leverage itself isn't the problem.

PSINet's plausible fate as someone else's subsidiary owes in part to the fact that, like other major players before it, PSINet has leveraged itself to the hilt — it has $120 million in debt and nearly $1 billion in junk bonds.

This is compounded by the fact that the price tag is going to be exorbitantly high, and Dell is very likely going to have to leverage itself up to its eyeballs to make this happen.

Our economy is a magnificent but deeply flawed experiment that threatens to de-leverage itself unless we engineer new ways to infuse it with new spending.