Sentence examples for real levers from inspiring English sources

It is to create another EU, with the Kremlin holding all of the real levers of power.

Though General Kayani is considered loyal to the president, the real levers of power will pass to him, and he is believed to favor removing the army from the center of politics, they said.

"When a civilian government comes to power in these circumstances, where the army controls the real levers of power and the civilian government is the face we interact with, we get nowhere".

As several former officers in the department told me, after Sugrobov's arrival the department concentrated less on doctors who took small bribes from patients or traffic police who shook down motorists, and began targeting people closer to the real levers of power in the Putin system.

Then, as the hubbub in the central square dies down, he confronts the generals and police chiefs who still control the real levers of power, and are uniquely well-informed about where all the bodies were buried, in more than one sense, under the old regime.

Yet while there is healthy debate in the UK over the balance between protecting security versus protecting civil liberties, no such debate exists in Syria, a national security state where the six "intelligence agencies" hold many of the real levers of power in the country.

His one real lever of power is the wave of popularity that his decisive action has generated.

But "governance" is separate from culture: the only real lever that the trust has that alters "culture" is appointing a new DG.

"Relationships are not policy material," said Willem Adema, a social policy specialist at the O.E.C.D. "You have no real lever in this area".

Holding out on entry to the free-travel zone is the only real lever the bloc has to force both nations to deal with multiple problems, including rampant criminal gangs and the treatment of the region's Roma population.

This one is used as a real lever that allows the gripping while improving the dissection.