Sentence examples for of enormous leverage from inspiring English sources

Now, because of what could politely be called mission creep, it's elbowing its way into the middle of the financial mess as an enabler of enormous leverage.

Andrew Ross Sorkin (Dealbook column, April 7), in his criticism of the Legacy Loans Program, accuses the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation of "mission creep" and of enabling "enormous leverage" with "virtually no oversight by Congress".

This relentless pursuit of power leaves enormous leverage for political Islam to take hold.

This gives advocates of keeping the tax enormous leverage in holding the line against gutting the law.

"I believe that if DOJ and our banking regulatory agencies prove unwilling over time to take the big banks to trial or even require admission of guilt when they cheat consumers and break the law -- either out of timidity or because of a lack of resources -- then the agencies lose enormous leverage in settlement negotiations".

The meltdown occurred because of certain financial institutions placing enormous leverage bets on the sub-prime housing market, amplified in many cases by derivatives and by the Fed's easy money policy.

Mr. Malone made his mark through a series of acquisitions of smaller cable systems that gave TCI enormous leverage both in buying hardware and in negotiating deals for programming.

Democrats, sensing they have enormous leverage going into the end-of-year fiscal showdown, are taking firm stands.

That is one reason to believe that other market-neutral funds will not find themselves in the same straits as LTCM.A hedge by any other nameThe combination of apparently low-risk strategies with enormous leverage may be rare among hedge funds, but it is by no means uncommon in other parts of the finance industry.

Unless you can get a new investor to set the price of the round, existing investors have enormous leverage (or optionality).

As president of the United States, Obama would have enormous leverage, should he choose to wield it, in pressing Egypt to end oppression of its own people, suppression of dissent, toleration of corruption and inequality and mismanagement of its economy.