Some of these ideas are being tried elsewhere, but I haven't come across any other council pulling on so many different levers so hard and all at once.
Thus, whoever had control of Scotland's story most likely controlled its political discourse and therefore, but not always, its levers of power.
The old levers aren't working, which is why you're getting this raucous response – I love this stuff on Twitter, in which I'm being blamed for everything from the volcano to the assassination of JFK.
"It is no longer simply enough to get into power and, from Whitehall, pull the old social-democratic levers: tax rates and regulation, welfare payments and tax credits.
To his many critics in Budapest, this means hollowing out democracy, retaining a semblance of pluralism while controlling all the key levers.
Paul has used all the levers available to a senator to stand in the way of a bill in recent days, in full knowledge that the chamber's failure to pass legislation would disempower the country's spy agencies.
Both the Trident and ex-girlfriends stories smack of Tory operatives frantically stabbing at the old buttons and pulling at the familiar levers, only to find they no longer work.
He understands more thoroughly than almost any other national newspaper manager how editorial operates, knowing which levers to pull.
It is priceless, because it acknowledges that most problems are difficult to solve and that governments can no longer pull levers and get results.
They worried that Mr Martinelli was stealthily trying to keep his hands on the levers of power, especially after his wife was chosen as Mr Arias's running-mate.Mr Varela, the scion of a rum dynasty, also campaigned on a pledge to clean up politics.
Mr Rohani's ability to prosper also lies in the ayatollah's hands, which control many of the levers of Iran's "deep state".
