Sentence examples for rather than leverage from inspiring English sources

During the 1990s, when the Argentine peso was pegged to the dollar, companies often sold themselves to foreigners, rather than leverage the currency advantage and expand throughout Latin America.

Eswar S. Prasad, a former head of the China division of the International Monetary Fund, said, "The reality is that China's holdings of U.S. treasuries reflect the symbiotic relationship between the two countries, rather than leverage that either one has over the other.

Economists Amir Sufi and Atif Mian lead the charge in arguing that the Geithner strategy failed to restart the economy because it focused on leverage at the large banks rather than leverage among households, i.e., foreclosures.

Economists Amir Sufi and Atif Mian lead the charge in arguing that the Geithner strategy failed to restart the economy because it focused on leverage at the large banks rather than leverage among households, i.e., foreclosures.

Analysing the results of the European elections, he said the things that everyone had been seemingly trying, but failing, to articulate: the idea that the UK could strike a better bargain, negotiating solo with the behemoth economies of China, India, Brazil and the US, rather than leveraging the collective bargaining power of the largest global bloc, is a fiction.

Instead he looked for buyers who would take a small percentage of the company giving him a chance to take some equity out of the business that would act as strategic partners rather than leverage-happy investors.

Gates, Jobs, Ellison, and Chambers are fighting the last war with Google rather than leveraging the new real time tools.

Rather than leveraging the PR opportunities that Silicon Valley affords, our government should instead focus on removing barriers to entrepreneurship in the U.S. and encourage entrepreneurship abroad.

Although, unlike China's WeChat for example, Circle is having to build its network from scratch — rather than leveraging an existing and highly popular messaging platform.

Contemporary research in learning technologies is largely focused on describing the phenomenon in the form of case studies or on discussing isolated technological developments rather than leveraging learning analytics capabilities to enable effective, efficient, engaging and personalized learning (smart learning).

The local economy is still oriented toward fulfilling the needs of these big foreign investors rather than leveraging the city's logistical advantages and favorable labor market for its own purposes, but currently the government is working on changing that.