Sentences with phrase «little leverage»

That may be especially true if you're in a buyer's market, leaving you with little leverage for getting the price that you want.

For more than 20 years, local administrators have had little leverage over the finances or operations of the state's largest school district.

This is especially true of young scientists who have little leverage at academic institutions.

Without an attorney you have little leverage against big insurance.

That means the human resources professionals have very little leverage.

The Federated States of Micronesia and the Solomon Islands are among the world's most impoverished countries, with little leverage when it comes to persuading richer countries to take responsibility for their wrecks.

Publishers have no shortage of digital book platforms on which to license their content, and that leaves those platforms with little leverage in deals.

If you do that, you may end up agreeing to things you don't care much and end up with precious little leverage when a point you really care about shows up at the bottom of the list - since you've already agreed to the rest.

Britain's economy is already comparatively open, meaning it would have relatively little leverage in such an environment.

As for leverage, most of the guys I've talked with and most that I've researched use little leverage (many use no leverage at all).

That makes it hard to imagine a compelling reason that a DA like Gonzalez would have to plea down the charge because it leaves any McGregor legal team with very little leverage for a deal like 3rd degree misdemeanor assault with no time served.

Once in its embrace, the Yogibo provides little leverage to remove yourself by yourself.

The IDC came out ahead Tuesday night, and with Cuomo and de Blasio bruised, there is little leverage on Klein to lift his hand from the seesaw.

Authors, even best - selling authors, have surprisingly little leverage to shape the terms of their deals; publishing contracts look pretty much the same for everyone, except around the margins and they have been that way for at least a century.

[It's worth highlighting this net equity's now predominately invested in liquid & low - risk assets, with little leverage employed].

UPDATE: Steve makes a good point in comments - prior law requires 40 % reductions in GHGs by 2040, so WSPA had little leverage as opposed to facing potentially - crippling regulation.

That's not to say that you can't, or shouldn't, delete your Facebook account: it lets you exercise what little leverage you have over the company.

And REITs have very little leverage overall, so is there still a lot of room to borrow?

«We will have very little leverage over climate in the next couple of decades if we're just looking at carbon dioxide,» Shindell said.

Also, parents get a little extra work done around the house, at a pretty modest price (one of big lessons kids learn in this setup is that employees have very little leverage when it comes to wage negotiation).

The Pacers would likely want one of Los Angeles» younger players or one of their draft picks in return, but with George announcing his intention to leave next summer, they have little leverage in trade negotiations.

He had no leverage to convince opinion formers of his position, in the same way that he now has precious little leverage with Romney or Hollande.

But as party insiders recognize, there are lots of ifs in the deal, and relatively little leverage to hold Cuomo to his promises.

But the president saved his bully pulpit for Wall Street profiteers and health - care redesign, leaving him with little leverage for K — 12 education reform.

1) Ordinary investors like me have very little leverage over the companies we invest in.

CMOs generally appoint school leaders themselves, which can leave their local boards with little leverage over the school head.

As a startup entrepreneur, I'm In The Kitchen's Amy Yazdian felt she had little leverage to demand perfection from her staff.

«Most people who are fresh out of college have very little leverage in the negotiation process, because you typically can't point to any concrete workplace results you've accomplished yet,» said business consultant Dorie Clark, author of «Stand Out.»

So what does the famously outspoken investor do, maybe to gain a little leverage?

We would rather invest in a company with a solid balance sheet, strong working capital, and little leverage than in a company with a lot of debt but strong earnings at present» Thomas Khan

Yi has little leverage.

This is just the second of five years in the current CBA, and the players have little leverage to change a system they agreed to just 14 months ago.

It's not a terrible haul for the Thunder, given the fact that they had little leverage.

MLB agent Brodie Van Wagenen issued a threatening tweet to owners, but the players still have little leverage in this free agent market.

Certainly, he has little leverage in signing what few candidates are out there, given how the soccer universe is well aware the Sounders need offensive help.

Being the poorest country in Europe gives it little leverage.

So the Labour leadership are pleased because they think Sturgeon has little leverage.

However, the state likely has little leverage to keep the plant open.

With no role or control at the Port Authority, he has little leverage and is basically a Port Authority bystander, despite the PA's importance to the city.

Absent the pay raise, the speaker has little leverage to compel ambivalent members to support the horse - carriage ban.

The UK is in a much weaker negotiation position than the EU (at least in part because our negotiating team seems to have no idea what they actually want) and as a result has very little leverage.

This should give you a little leverage to roll over toward the left without strain.

«We used a little leverage,» Smith says.

Being an agent myself gave me a little leverage, but not as much as you might expect.