Sentence examples for obtain leverage. from inspiring English sources

"They obtain leverage on those people, too".

Republicans shifted the deadline on the debt ceiling principally to obtain leverage over Mr Obama through the sequester automatic, across-the-board spending cuts.

Mr. Schiffman complained that the plaintiffs' lawyers have raised the disclosure issue "to obtain leverage to get a settlement by saying that there would be all sorts of negative publicity".

A director has broad rights under Section 220 to access books and records, which may provide an additional tool for directors (to seek to restore their reputations, maintain their positions, and/or obtain leverage in negotiating a settlement) when fiduciary claims against the board are likely to be dismissed.

If there is no market segmentation, the buyer group can obtain leverage against the seller by restricting its demand as a whole.

RIM has also said it has developed a software workaround that will permit its systems to function without infringing NTP patents, but some say those claims are merely an attempt to obtain leverage during settlement negotiations.

On the next play, Ravens guard Ben Grubbs obtained leverage on Jenkins and forced him down the field.

Large balance sheets, easily obtained leverage, and incentive structures that provide enormous benefits from rising stock prices will surely lead to more risk taking.

"Mr York obtained leverage in the negotiations," the judge noted, "by lending to the club and then, at critical moments, threatening to call in his loans". However, the judge found nothing improper with that agreement.

It also alleged that Russian officials had been "cultivating" Trump as an asset for five years, and had obtained leverage over him, in part by recording videos of him while he engaged in compromising sexual acts, including consorting with Moscow prostitutes who, at his request, urinated on a bed.

Two ways of using the lever came to have considerable metaphorical significance: as a weighing machine (the scale), it was associated with balanced moral judgment in ethical philosophy; as a weight-lifting machine (the well sweep), it was associated with manipulative strategies of obtaining leverage in political and military thought.