The phrase "means of leverage" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a way or method of exerting control or influence over a situation. Example: Using technology as a means of leverage, the company was able to expand its market share and gain a competitive advantage over its rivals.
The reduction had started in the 1650s as a means of leverage to get the high nobles to pay their taxes and agree to various acts.
The result was that the sultan lost both an important means of leverage and a means of adjusting to new political circumstances.
Military power rests substantially on the willingness to use it: perhaps less so in war than in peacetime as a means of leverage and coercion.
Once a useful tool for maximizing freedom of action, multiple sources of outside support are now a means of leverage to further constrain Palestinian decision-making.
Some politicians, though, worry that the long deadlock over a new government may worsen the strife, tempting some groups to use violence as another means of leverage in negotiations.
Administration of wealth Indeed the might of the Islamic State can only be through its being free entirely from all bonds of tyranny that the west possesses as means of leverage against it, and it moves them according to its need and whim based on knowing from it the need of the mujahideen for support, wealth and weapons.
He no longer even felt agitation to work up energy for more renunciation... Whichever way he explains it, one feels the primary function of the act is an attempt - increasingly drastic - to seize control over impossibly adverse circumstances; a means of leveraging one's very powerlessness so as to exert power.
As foreign policy, observer status was a potential means of leveraging participation in other international organisations and, in time, regaining recognition and legitimacy as a sovereign state.
The massive spread of cell phones into the LMIC (7, 8) has been seen as a potential means of leveraging on mobile health (mhealth) to reduce maternal (and infant) death rates.
Telemedicine for the intensive care unit (ICU) has been proposed as potential means of leveraging clinical expertise and bringing that expertise to hospitals with inadequate or complete lack access to intensive care specialists (intensivists).
Telemedicine for the ICU has been suggested as a potential means of leveraging existing intensivist clinical expertise and bringing that expertise to hospitals with inadequate or complete lack access to intensive care specialists [ 8].
