Assad played brazen strategic games to sustain Syrian leverage.
But notice the difference in how Wal-Mart and Dell have attempted to sustain and leverage their respective competitive advantages.
Ultimately, by doing what's best for the business, seeking to understand, and laying out clearer rules of engagement, we can better build, sustain and leverage our relationships with others.
But the expectation was that it would carry a great deal of the company's $8.1 billion in consolidated debt, since the company's programming investments do not generate the enormous cash flow needed to sustain high leverage.
Patel believes that shares of eBay will remain "range bound" in the near term claiming that "the shares deserve less of a premium on growth until the company demonstrates sustained operating leverage and margin expansion, stabilization in growth rates, purchase frequency improvements and ad expense controls".
"In the event of a severe market contraction, some investors may not be in a position to sustain the leveraging and will be required to liquidate their positions under unfavorable market conditions".
It is a trade-off that needs to be understood: the lack of leverage sustaining growth will make growth more sustainable.
UNICEF also proposes to support research and careful monitoring in sentinel sites to generate evidence that can be used to encourage adoption of the initiative in other states, motivate communities that already have CIBs to sustain them, and leverage support from donors and state and local governments to expand the initiative.
And it reaches timely compromises to cash in military leverage and sustain public support.
Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, will discuss the Israeli pattern of flagrant defiance of international law, as sustained by American geopolitical leverage inside the UN and beyond.
"While we anticipate having to overcome a transition period of lower earnings, with strong growth resuming in 2004, we are confident that our new-product pipeline has the potential to afford us great leverage and sustain our growth for years to come," Mr. Kogan said late Thursday.
