"managed to leverage" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used when you successfully use something to your advantage. For example: "The company managed to leverage their existing relationships to secure the large contract."
"They've managed to leverage what every good boutique does, which is know their customer," Mr. McGuire said of eMusic.
The city has managed to leverage a $124 million investment in publicly accessible riverfront into $4 billion in corporate, public, nonprofit and entertainment development downtown.
In order to sustain multiple ecosystem services, understanding ecosystem services capacity across heterogeneous forest types and identifying certain ecosystem services that could be managed to leverage positive effects across the wider bundle of ecosystem services are required.
And I'm hardly focusing on the county's ownership of one of the only amusement combinations of park, pool, beach and ice rink within a day's drive, something it has managed to leverage into years of losses.
While blacks hold 15 seats in the State Legislature and are mayors of some New Jersey's largest cities, they have not managed to leverage that strength and catapult a candidate into statewide office, said Walter Fields, a former political director of the New Jersey chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
It is a level of activity that can't be sustained by Ou and Zuo alone, who have managed to leverage funds from their world of biennales and big-scale exhibitions for the work so far, but hope others will add to the momentum.
The most successful songs on the service have been by high school groups who manage to leverage their real-world connections to drive sales online.
The company also manages to leverage popular technology in its solution, boasting a one-click integration with Twitter that enables companies to solicit competitive bids from suppliers across the world using the micro-sharing service.
Mary Cronin, Ph.D., a professor of management at Boston College says she doesn't think it was a particularly well-strategized or savvy move by Apple, but "If they can manage to leverage [the] PR from the reaction and the iPad takes off, I'm sure there will be speculation that they planned it all along".
He told Today: "The bureaucracy of the Salvadoran system often seemed to conspire against us, but with the help of a supreme court judge and some good, old-fashioned diplomacy we finally managed to get leverage and we got the result we wanted".
They're designed, built and managed to provide leverage and control to people other than their owners.
