Sentence examples for retains leverage from inspiring English sources

Despite appearances, Washington retains leverage: Israel needs America.

"China has unique economic leverage, while the U.S. retains leverage based on its ability to confer or withdraw legitimacy".

By "threatening to threaten," Obama retains leverage to keep the Syrians and Russians focused on implementing any agreement — but without having to test Congress's real willingness to let him fulfill that threat.

Groundwork in Congress to authorize a limited missile strike if Syria does not comply, partly to retain leverage with Moscow.

Previous biographies, such as Anthony Seldon's excellent Blair Unbound, suggested Blair told aides that his attitude in summer 2006 was to retain "leverage" with both the US and Israel, fearing that to openly criticise them would lose him clout.

Turkey, Syria's neighbor to the north, was an emerging ally before relations stumbled over Mr. Assad's crackdown, and its officials are still thought to retain leverage with Mr. Assad, who took power in 2000.

Both countries want to retain leverage, so the Iranians believe it is essential to keep the capability to produce uranium, and they reject any proposals to dismantle the nuclear infrastructure they have built, which they say is for civilian use.

Even those who admire Karzai's political skills say he isolated himself on the issue of American forces, rejecting the advice of a loya jirga — a grand council of elders that he selected — in an effort to retain leverage over the United States until his final days in office.

"We'll retain huge leverage — the leverage that comes from cutting into their oil sales," says R. Nicholas Burns, the former under secretary of state for policy who organized the first sanctions against Iran during the Bush administration.

B. & N., which still has more than six hundred retail stores (and six hundred and eighty-six college bookstores), also retains considerable leverage with publishers.

All other banks will be regulated by Basel 1A, which contains a few elements of Basel 2, but retains the leverage ratio.