Recently, UN Habitat has embarked on the following strategic partnerships to increase the impact of the Programme and leverage its resources

Its objective is to explore new kinds of relationships with NGOs that will leverage mutual strengths and complementarities to increase impact and sustainability.

But territory is not the only objective of China s stealth wars China is also seeking to disturb the status quo when it comes to riparian relations. Indeed, it has almost furtively initiated dam projects to reengineer cross border river flows and increase its leverage over its neighbors.

One is leverage.

The resulting increase in the national debt is the price that we and future generations will pay for the mistakes that created the current economic situation. Those mistakes led to an underpricing of risk and the resulting increase in excessive leverage.

Chinese banks are being pushed to expand their role in global commerce. Many countries have begun to look at financial protectionism as a way to increase their political leverage.

Likewise, Russia has enjoyed leverage over Europe and its small neighbors through its control of natural gas supplies and pipelines. As North America becomes self sufficient in gas, more from various other regions will be freed up to provide alternative sources for Europe, thereby diminishing Russia s leverage.

UNOPS provides start up funds from its administrative budget only in order to leverage the first one or two projects.

How do you leverage that information?

The independent expert received guarantees that the Government would use its leverage to ensure that the election would indeed be held.

In these circumstances, Turkey has been able to leverage both its regional ties and its standing in the transatlantic community to play a more instrumental role vis à vis its southern neighbors.

Therefore India is at a critical point where either it can leverage its demographic dividend or it can lead to a demographic disaster.

Brazil believes that, at this stage, all Palestinians should be focused on supporting and providing leverage to the Palestinian Authority in its undertakings.

But it's not how you actually get leverage.

Efforts to increase amounts of aid must be accompanied by measures to increase its quality.

It's very cheap. We have a lot of leverage.

It shows leverage, trended out from 1919 to 2009.

With insufficient profits to use for investment, nonfinancial corporations will become increasingly dependent on external finance. As their leverage ratios increase, so will their risk premiums, causing their borrowing costs to rise and undermining their profitability further.

Financial booms provide collateral that supports debt financed spending. Borrowing is also supported by an easing of credit standards and new financial products that increase leverage and widen the range of assets that can be borrowed against.

UNDP intends to leverage its investment in corporate initiatives such as its Enterprise Resource Planning (Atlas system) to progressively link financial resources to defined outcomes for results based reporting within the RBM framework.

Indeed, though it can currently borrow at 1.6 on a long maturity, it has used its recent capital raising exercise to reduce leverage rather than substantially increase its loan portfolio, as would be warranted at a time of retrenchment in private lending. In any case, a rating change would hardly affect funding costs in the current low yield environment, as lower rated sovereigns have demonstrated.

Meanwhile, savers are being repressed, asset prices distorted, and incentives to maintain or even increase leverage enhanced. Competitive devaluations, even if they are not policymakers stated objectives, are becoming increasingly tempting though they will not solve the aggregate demand problem.

UNICEF will expand its work with allies at all levels, focusing on developing partnership frameworks that address specific needs and can leverage resources for scaling up programmes.

The one thing about this is it gives us extraordinary leverage.

So, a normal commercial bank has nine to 10 times leverage.

So there's huge leverage for making the car a lot lighter.

International agencies could use their leverage to help make this happen.

(c) Domestic economic considerations (leverage farming activities, increased domestic protein production)

As the United Nations expands its activities in Iraq, its security needs will increase.

As the United Nations expands its activities in Iraq, its security needs will increase.

That is why we advocate an increase in its membership.

Why not leverage the learnings that you've been learning your entire life?

We're using whatever leverage we have to bring them to the table.

And those three together, I think, give you leverage in the world.

Matty has found this ingenious way to leverage the kindness of strangers.

It's because there's a little more leverage in terms of the Chinese.

UNDP will also review opportunities to leverage unused PeopleSoft modules (para. 104).

We recommend that the Security Council adapt its working methods so as to increase the involvement of States not members of the Council in its work, enhance its accountability to the membership and increase the transparency of its work.

We recommend that the Security Council adapt its working methods so as to increase the involvement of States not members of the Council in its work, enhance its accountability to the membership and increase the transparency of its work.

So architecture maybe is not so big, like science, but through its focal point it can leverage in an Archimedian way what we think the world is really about.

UNDP will continue to leverage its own Atlas data quality dashboard' to proactively manage data errors and potential risks associated with unapplied deposits, matching exceptions, bank reconciliations and errors.

the Security Council continue to adapt its working methods so as to increase the involvement of States not members of the Council in its work, as appropriate, enhance its accountability to the membership and increase the transparency of its work .

We recommend that the Security Council adapt its working methods so as to increase the involvement of States not members of the Security Council in its preparatory work, enhance its accountability to the membership and increase the transparency of its work.

We believe that the balanced expansion of its membership would increase its credibility, legitimacy and effectiveness.

Do you give it its increase, or are We the giver?