Developing countries had acquired greater leverage in WTO negotiations and increasingly used WTO rules to defend their interests.

The new aid modalities could give the United Nations greater leverage on how resources were used in the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals.

One is leverage.

And then the government sat on it and used it for political leverage on Moi, who was the richest man still is the richest man in Kenya.

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

Subregional offices are well positioned to leverage their status as subregional entities as a comparative advantage in resource mobilization.

How do you leverage that information?

use ODA as a leverage for investments from private sources secure ODA for human and institutional capacity building

(a) Acting as the operational arms of ECA at the country and subregional levels and serving as catalysts to leverage the Commission's resources

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

But it's not how you actually get leverage.

Therefore as India and Pakistan, as you and I, it behooves us to transcend our differences, to celebrate our diversity, to leverage our common humanity.

And this is really going to leverage technology to the rural and the under served and enable what used to be thousand dollar tests to be done at pennies and at the point of care.

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

It shows leverage, trended out from 1919 to 2009.

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.

Reiterating that the Special Climate Change Fund should serve as a catalyst to leverage additional resources from bilateral and other multilateral sources,

(Used as a metaphor.)

(Used as a metaphor.)

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.

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)

He's not as energetic as he used to be.

I'm not as strong as I used to be.

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).

As regards small scale farmers, there are fears that they would risk being squeezed between other, larger players, since they lack leverage in the supply chain.

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.

Gas provides a tempting form of leverage, and Russia had already used it against Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Moldova. But when Gazprom, the Russian state gas monopoly, followed Putin s instructions to turn off the spigot to Ukraine, Russia crossed a new threshold.

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

Regulators are already talking about imposing leverage ratios, as well as limits on risk weighted assets. If they follow through, as I expect, there will be no return to the strategies of the last two decades.

Biofuels come in two forms biodiesel used as a fossil fuel diesel substitute and bioethanol used as a fossil fuel gasoline substitute.

Securities can be used as the deposit.

Here, used as a proxy, temperature variability.

It's used as a symbol for transformation.

Because I'm used to doing Q As.

It can be used as a knife.

He used his umbrella as a weapon.