Sentence examples for slight leverage from inspiring English sources

A chisel, placed in position against the edge of the block, is lightly tapped with a mallet; a crack appears in the direction of cleavage, and slight leverage with the chisel serves to split the block into two pieces with smooth and even surfaces.

Over the past 2 years Enso has made returns of over 80% using only a slight amount of leverage, Fink claims.

The administration finally (kind of) did so last fall, but if America runs back to Cairo, cash-in-hand, the former will never again have the slightest hint of leverage.

The leverage is decreased by the slight extensibility of the covalent linkage.

And A&E's even bigger problem is that their leverage over Robertson and his clan is slight.

Slight young men, they developed a system that relied on leverage rather than size or strength.

We did witness a slight increase in teams led by IDF graduates, founders that leverage their relevant military experience to build cybersecurity companies soon after being discharged.

Yet while the project is a bold and worthy leveraging of the university's considerable resources, there is a slight sense, at least in these early days, of tension between the academic and public-facing purposes.

While Uber certainly deserves credit for opening up the "on-the-demand" transportation market, Lyft entered the market by leveraging the team's experience with Zimride and adding a slight twist to the model — and so far, it's working.

The announcement also signals a slight evolution in The Dark Overlord's strategy, which has expanded on leveraging the media to exert pressure on victims, to now distributing its threats and stolen data in a wider fashion.

I'm talking leverage of five, 10 and even 20 times invested capital, making even the slightest move look monstrous.