Sentence examples for was leverage from inspiring English sources
noun
A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.
- A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.
"The fact that we're seeing these violent moves is a reflection that there was leverage there," George Goncalves, a fixed-income strategist at Nomura, said.
It was power politics without war, and its name was "leverage" — either by collaring new allies (like West Germany) or betraying old ones (like Israel).
The attempted Web blockade was leverage for Fox in its contract negotiations, but more important, it was the latest evidence that entrenched media companies hope to replicate their walled gardens in a new medium, the Internet.
The real cause of the financial crisis, she argues, was "leverage," and she calls for phasing out two institutions that many Republicans say were responsible for easy credit in the housing bubble, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
But the student then asked an important question: "If housing prices have fallen only 20percentt, why did the banks lose almost 100percentt of their money?" The answer was leverage, the use of borrowed money to amplify gains and, in this case, losses.
In 2000s, it was leverage.
The same feasibility criterion was leveraged against this physician.
"The difference is leverage.
The primary answer is leverage.
