But those member items also comprise the speaker's main lever for exercising power, allowing her to reward loyal councilmembers and penalize the disloyal ones. (politico.com)
According to General Electric's 2012 Global Innovation Barometer, which polled 2,800 senior executives on the state of innovation around the world, 92 percent of respondents agreed with the statement that «innovation is the main lever to create a more competitive economy.» (inc.com)
Just in terms of the economics, European nations have given up one of their main levers in responding to crises (monetary policy), without getting any of the transfers that fiscal union would have brought. (businessinsider.com)