Sentences with phrase «as a lever against»

I personally believe that Trad Pub would love to see indie sink back into the ooze whence it came, and that Amazon only gave it a real boost as a lever against Trad Pub when they were getting uppity.

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I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

An unfortunate hallmark of our hyper - partisan age is the temptation to use the levers of government as a weapon against...

Center stack controls can be hard to manipulate while you're driving unless there's something to brace your arm against, such as the gearshift lever.

There's a really good escalation to the puzzles as you go along in the game, too, starting out with just simple levers and switches, and eventually introducing traps and enemies that can kill you before finishing off with a rather large boss fight against the giant snake you've seen stalking you through the whole game.

Sumo Digital's physics for this game are marvelous, as switches, levers, and balls all react believably against the environment and Noodle's movements.

There's a story I recall about some famous and brilliant mathematician — perhaps Norbert Wiener — who rarely took his nose out of a book and who didn't like to waste time: he would read while walking to and from the classroom (or perhaps his office) but have his arm out such that with a small part of his (very big) brain he could count the doorframes as they were ticked off against his hand; at the right count, his wrist would stiffen, and with his arm as a lever, rotate himself into the room still reading.