I'll tell you how big the lever is the lever is that big.

He put his hand on the throttle.

And he showed her the lever.

It's that little bar there. He put his hand on the throttle.

He reached down. He pulled a lever. And the chair sank down.

We started with a motor with a little lever, a little force transfuser.

And on Sunday morning the neighbors leaf blower comes out, and I want to throttle them.

We create robotic workers that we treat like assets, to lever and just throw away.

The researchers had to lever up their human minds with technology to dive deeper, to explore non obvious hypotheses, and in fact, insights emerged.

Productive and decent employment is the most powerful lever to ensure the stability of social security during demographic change and to enhance social security coverage.

And now we're in this new model of leadership, where the way we make change is not by using money or power to lever a system, but by leading.

And some of the most heartrending emails that I get on my website are actually from adolescents hovering on the edge of burnout, pleading with me to write to their parents, to help them slow down, to help them get off this full throttle treadmill.

A stronger trade balance in the late 1990s would not have added to output growth or job creation, which were running at full throttle. Further increases in net export demand would have been met only by attracting workers away from the production of something else.

The first lever is budgetary Governments that enjoy fiscal space should spend on economically sound projects. Public investment is a complement to private investment if designed and targeted well, it can trigger more private investment, rather than crowding it out.

But the first fell prey to a long US occupation, and the second currently faces a US led oil export embargo designed to throttle it financially. As a result, America s efforts to give international effect to its new Iran Sanctions Act constitute a double whammy for India.

These types of spectacles used to be reserved for the nomination of Supreme Court justices a lifetime appointment to a nine member body that can overturn laws passed by Congress and signed by the president. But those full throttle battles have now spilled over to other nominations.

The second lever for investment is regulatory in nature. Many large scale investments that only pay off over the long term for example, in energy, digital infrastructure, and transport are concentrated in state regulated sectors, giving governments the power to influence business decisions.

Instead, the vocation of Europe in the course of the twenty first century should be to become the lever of step by step inter continental convergence and unification. Europe must be reinvented for this purpose, and broadening the EMU s reach is the right place to start.

Moreover, the development of policies facilitating the integration of women belonging to specific cultural or minority groups into the labour market, in addition to respecting diversity and multiculturalism, reduces social exclusion enhancing at the same time social cohesion, which in turn, is a lever for economic development.

Yes, the chances of an immediate repeat of the acute financial meltdown of 2008 are much reduced by the fact that most investors, regulators, consumers, and even politicians will remember their financial near death experience for quite some time. As a result, it could take a while for recklessness to hit full throttle again.

International finance economists see a far bleaker future. They see the end of large scale dollar purchase programs by central banks leading not only to a decline in the dollar, but also to a spike in US long term interest rates, which will curb consumption spending immediately and throttle investment spending after only a short lag.

New York Even before the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, decided to throttle what little legitimacy was left of Iran s managed democracy, it was a peculiar system, indeed. Although Iranian citizens had the right to elect their president, the candidates had to be vetted by the Council of Guardians, half of whom were picked by the unelected Supreme Leader.

Many in Sarkozy s governing UMP have become increasingly public in expressing their unhappiness with his decision making method. In effect, rather than according serious room for decision making to his prime minister, François Fillon, or to Fillon s cabinet, Sarkozy has arrogated almost every lever of power to himself and his advisers within the Élysée Palace.

In September of this year, world leaders will gather at the United Nations to adopt a set of Sustainable Development Goals to address these rising threats. The SDGs will not ensure global action, but, as US President John F. Kennedy once said about UN agreements, they can serve as a lever to help move the world toward action.

Secular, military, and Mubarak era foes of the Muslim Brotherhood have used every lever at their disposal, democratic or not, to block the Islamist parties democratic exercise of power. This is consistent with a decades old pattern in Egyptian history, in which the Brothers and Islamist political forces in general were outlawed, and their members imprisoned, tortured, and exiled.

ISPs would throttle traffic from ISPs that did not join the security collective, and pretty soon their customers would complain, forcing them either to join or find themselves relegated to the underworld, from which it would be hard to launch attacks because no one would accept their traffic. And, because ISPs answer to other ISPs, not governments, dissidents and whistleblowers could maintain their anonymity.

I can make it larger or smaller, I can change its brass to silver, I could make it a lever. I can change your door, put colors on I can put windows in. I can change a thousand things about your door, and in the two seconds you take to open your door, you're going to notice that something has changed.

Economists have long studied the economics of superstars in fields where a company can lever enormously the decisions of a small number of individuals, making them valuable in a way that someone who can, say, chop down trees like the legendary Paul Bunyan, is not. But the political economy of what levels of income differences countries will tolerate remains uncharted territory.

On the labor market side, the most powerful lever to bolster the majority s wellbeing would be to increase the employment of women, whose workforce participation rate still lags behind that of men by as much as 40 globally. Including more women presupposes better childcare and other social support in many countries, as well as further progress on pay equality, including the more equal taxation of second earners.

Meanwhile, there should be no backsliding on the progress already made, such as the offer to eliminate agricultural export subsidies by 2013 and to provide duty free quota free access for almost all exports from least developed countries. We encourage donors to follow through on their commitments to increase effective aid for trade assistance to help developing countries take full advantage of trade opportunities as a lever for growth.

But, assuming that the obstacle thrown up by Ireland s voters can be overcome, experience has shown that the EU s future evolution will be marked by increasingly centralized power in Brussels and the retreat of individual states. The lever for this process will continue to be the EU s central bureaucracy, the mechanism that formulates the member states common interests and whose field of action is determined by loose, and periodic, inter governmental collaboration.