UNICEF aimed to support access to, and completion of, quality education for all children as their basic human right and a means to leverage gains in other sectors.

One is leverage.

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

How do you leverage that information?

But it's not how you actually get leverage.

Fortunately, Chinese households relatively low leverage means that the kind of balance sheet damage that occurred in some advanced countries during the crisis, leading to a huge drop in demand, is unlikely, even if real estate prices continue to decline. It also means that there remains some space for expanding consumer credit to boost demand.

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.

It shows leverage, trended out from 1919 to 2009.

You might argue about the sanity of it, but the leverage is real.

The hard part of fully realizing potential growth is shifting the composition of domestic demand from consumption to investment without adding leverage. That means paying for it on the public sector side, via taxes and a reduction in household consumption (and in wealth accumulation).

That pattern came to a sudden stop in the financial crisis of 2008. Private sector leverage declined and public sector leverage reached and exceeded sustainable limits, with Greece being only the most extreme example.

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)

Although China may not like it, the international trading system may provide more leverage than any other post Kyoto mechanism over developing countries environmental policies. Despite the threat of trade wars, trade sanctions could emerge as the most effective means of forcing international action on global warming.

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.

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

As a result, they appear to be playing into Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh s hands. Saleh wants to use the London conference as a means to leverage Western backing, particularly military aid, to pursue his wars against the Houthis and the southern secessionists.

Seeing such data, one cannot help but be stupefied. According to the statistical data of Suning Financial Research Institute, the leverage ratio of Chinese households was only 3 in 1996 and 18 in 2008. But this figure doubled in just six years since the trend of rapid growth of leverage ratio set in, reaching 36.4 . By the third quarter of 2017, the leverage ratio of households has reached 48.6 .

And that attention would help leverage the situation, as well as all of the other sides of it.

There are times when the leverage of powerful States including permanent members of the Council can be crucial.

International leverage appeared necessary to clear these deadlocks, which were not primarily of Bosnia and Herzegovina's making.

We have never had as many means of communication, means of being connected, means of reaching out, means of including.

We leverage a lot of technology from the state of the art in general aviation and from automotive racing.

Consumers who represent 72 percent of the GDP of America have actually started, just like banks and just like businesses, to de leverage, to unwind their leverage, in daily life, to remove themselves from the liability and risk that presents itself as we move forward.

They should consciously recognize that they've built an appointment dynamic and leverage the games.

We can now leverage microfluidics, like this chip made by Steve Quake at Stanford.

And the problem with leverage is it makes the U.S. financial system look like this.

Inclusion of the water agenda in development strategies, including poverty reduction strategies and national sustainable development strategies, is considered to be a key means to demonstrate political commitment to achieving the goal of safe drinking water supply, as well as providing a policy framework to leverage national and international resources in support of this goal.

And one of the unique capabilities that we leverage with the MR is the ability to measure temperature noninvasively.

50 years in which loosely coordinated groups are going to be given increasingly high leverage, and the more those groups forego traditional institutional imperatives like deciding in advance what's going to happen, or the profit motive the more leverage they'll get.

And I learned about profit and revenue, about leverage, all sorts of things, from farmers, from seamstresses, from goat herders.

Otherwise, the combined leverage of the Goals will not help to reduce poverty and hunger as stated under Goal 1.

It was stated that efforts to leverage financing through cooperation with international financial institutions should continue.

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.

But there remains the question of whether consumption share growth is sustainable that is, whether it is the result of income share growth or rising leverage. If it is supported by excessive leverage, effectively shifting future consumption to the present, China could face a significant slowdown or even a major crisis.

Regulators have recently woken up to the incentives for excessive leverage in this sector and to the risks that such leverage poses to lenders and the broader economy. Not surprisingly, big private equity firms seem determined to ignore or otherwise circumvent new restrictions.

Second, given their limited leverage, Afghanistan s neighbors must lean hard on countries that can influence any future Afghan government. The Gulf states, for example, have the means to invest in building an Afghanistan that provides real opportunities to all citizens particularly the young men whose lack of options so often drives them into the arms of terrorist recruiters.

But it's also, of course, to do with the massive crisis that followed excessive leverage, excessive borrowing in the private sector.

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