Sentence examples for power leveraging from inspiring English sources

It has been able to apply new kinds of power, leveraging the central role that the dollar and financial messaging systems such as SWIFT play in the global financial architecture.

"Extremist nationalists have wielded considerable power, leveraging average peoples' irrational fear of Muslims for political gain," says Matthew Smith, executive director of human rights non-profit Fortify Rights.

This was about power, leverage and options.

His method of power, leverage through the threat of disruption, is their paradigm.

"Russia's abundant oil fields and natural gas reserves," he added, "seem to give it some of the power leverage it had lost in Northeast Asia since the cold war".

There are a set of underlying relationships, underlying balance of power, leverage on different sides, and you have to recognize when you are in a position to then on top of that find a solution given the underlying balance...

When the U.S. closed its bases in the Philippines, America lost its hard power leverage in the region.

This new emergence of people power leveraged the energy of young leaders with the moral influence of clergy and the grassroots development reach of community leaders.

My view is that he has a lot of moral leverage and soft power leverage even if he can't call up these guys and tell them to lay down their guns.

If the U.S. wants to counter Chinese aggression in Asia, the Obama Administration needs to be more consistent in their approach against strategic adversaries and back-up its diplomatic rhetoric against China with hard power leverage.

We therefore reason with Erasmus and Gilson [ 17] that power is the heart of health policy process, as these case studies illustrate how policy actors used contextual factors as power leverage to justify their actions, inactions and choices.