Sentence examples for were leveraged 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.
It also found that 75percentt of all the banking industry's substandard assets were leveraged loans.
All were leveraged buy-outs, with a puny Indian unit raising debt against its target's assets.
Offers of aid were leveraged by Nasser to extract better terms from the Soviet Union, his preferred military partner.
The opposite carrier-transport characteristics of these two materials were leveraged to define the exciton formation zone and thus increase the probability of recombination.
Then, as now, many deals were leveraged buy-outs (LBOs)—bids financed by private-equity groups such as Blackstone, using a large amount of borrowed money.
The problems became more intense with subprime mortgages because the owners of such assets were leveraged; that is, they had financed their purchases with borrowed money.
They are leveraged twenty to one.
Are there opportunities to be leveraged, too?
The power of computation can be leveraged and leveraged again.
It can invest in a company that's leveraged, right?
Can that be leveraged toward development and how?
