Sentence examples similar to secure leverage over from inspiring English sources

Whereas Sudan's 2011 partition placed 75percentt of Sudanese oil outside of Khartoum's control, Sudan secured leverage by retaining control over the only pipelines capable of transporting South Sudanese oil to global markets.

Far from presiding over a secure, sovereign state, the Syrian leader has little leverage over what happens next.

Puerto Rico leaders believe that they have sufficient leverage over the national political parties to secure the legislative changes necessary to allow them to use bankruptcy as a means to renegotiate their outstanding obligations, while leaving their powers of self-governance -- as enshrined in the 1952 Commonwealth Constitution approved by Congress -- largely unaffected going forward.

That was intended to secure Congressional support for the war, but limited America's leverage over Belgrade.

Securing these tactical footholds inside Georgia and Moldova gave Moscow tremendous leverage over the otherwise pro-Western governments of both countries — which is precisely the scenario that many in Ukraine now fear.

Amsterdam gained sufficient leverage over supply chains to wage price wars, prioritising volumes over margins to eliminate weak competition and secure a monopoly over pepper, tea and sugar imports.

When it has not secured that data, the military is stuck with Company A. That not only gives company A a lot of leverage over the government, it can also jeopardise the lives of troops in the field.

Mr. Cuomo had significant leverage over lawmakers.

They have complete leverage over you.

Brussels and Washington have leverage over Warsaw.

The intelligence community has been less secure in its relationships with the new breed of service providers, and because most of them are American companies, the British authorities have little leverage over them.