Sentence examples for like leverage from inspiring English sources

Three syllables seem to be too much for people who disparage verbs like leverage and dialogue.

Some books, like "Leverage," which depicts the rape of a male high-school gymnast by three football players, are graphic and decline to offer happy endings.

But for most of the case, jurors were asked to slog through a swamp of accounting minutiae and mind-numbing concepts like leverage ratios.

Words like "leverage," "earning power" and "asset-building goal" spill easily out of his mouth, and they seem out of place in an office where notices about stroller recalls and free cancer screenings hang on the walls.

We have to protect what we have, but we have to attract more people," he says.His use of words like "leverage" and his description of the country's heritage as an "asset platform" are unlikely to endear him to critics.

Andrew G. Haldane, a Bank of England official with the impressive title "executive director, financial stability," thinks that regulators would be better off to seek simplicity through measures like leverage ratios, rather than allow banks to make calculations that depend on thousands of estimates to determine how much capital they need.

Rassoul, a Francophone physician without an independent base, appears to be just weak enough for Karzai to exert a Putin-like leverage over the next administration.

Lewis, apparently, doesn't like to leverage himself with debt.

It could turn Versus into a network that would provide cable operators (like Comcast) leverage in negotiations with ESPN.

I will soon be moving from an apartment to a house, and I would like to leverage this change into a housewarming that I can register for.

Like Karmazin, Hicks would like to leverage his radio assets into control of TV assets.