Sentence examples for unusual leverage from inspiring English sources

Yet even with this unusual leverage — without a deal, taxes would have increased for everyone — the Democrats got only about 60 percent of what the House speaker, John A. Boehner, had once been willing to give on taxes.

But for the moment Northwest still owns its stake in Continental, which gives it control over that airline's destiny and thus unusual leverage in the next round of deals.

Other people who were involved in the process made the same point: Mr. Gregory had unusual leverage because he was thought of as a potential successor to Mr. Lauer — and a potential rival to "Today" if he left NBC and joined its main competitor, "Good Morning America" on ABC.

That gives him unusual financial leverage to compete with the major party candidates; Governor Dean, in particular, has worried aloud that Mr. Pollina will siphon off votes he needs.

Encouragingly, Mr. Bernanke said the Fed was on the lookout for unusual valuations, high leverage, new and dangerous products and excessive risk-taking.

Regression diagnostics did not detect any major outliers, or values that displayed an unusual degree of influence or leverage.

That really is unusual, and is something we tried to leverage in the new branding".

We may see more big leveraged buy-outs if this unusual spread persists.

Unfortunately, Mr Chávez's excess spending of oil profits is not unusual for oil-rich countries nor is his leverage of incumbent political power during a re-election campaign.

Analysts said the move by the Church of England, which has more than £8 billion under management, was unusual because ethical investors often use stakes in companies as leverage to get their issues on annual meeting agendas.

While it's hard to evaluate algorithm bias, Riminder thinks that leveraging artificial intelligence for recruitment can help surface unusual candidates.