Sentences with phrase «point of leverage over»

The New York Times on July 5: «White House advisers have discussed a potential point of leverage over their adversary, a senior administration official said: a pending merger between CNN's parent company, Time Warner, and AT&T.

Not exact matches

A church that is the largest voluntary association in the country; a church whose universal pastor has, over the past decade, definitively answered Stalin's cynical query about the pope's divisions; a church that is, demographically, at its strongest historical point of leverage in American society — this is a church that would seem well positioned to seize what Richard John Neuhaus and others have seen as a possible «Catholic moment» in American history, pro Deo et patria.

It's a classic jujitsu idea — use your enemy's strengths against him, in this case leveraging off of the favorable attention Gerlach has been getting over his puppy bill to point out something that he IS N'T working on... or at least, something that Trevedi would like voters to PERCEIVE that he isn't working on.

Lawmakers at this point have taken the unusual step of not introducing Cuomo's ethics measures as a way of preserving some leverage over the governor during the negotiations.

We then have a theoretical point in space known as the roll centre, which as its name implies is the point about which the car rolls and it represents the interaction of the various suspension components and the leverages they exert over each other.

I used vice grips to make a bending - pivot - point on the hand grip and length of pipe to go over the lever for leverage.

However, if electrified vehicles can begin to compete with a better drive offering through leveraging the innate capabilities of electric motors and sophisticated software control to deliver superior vehicle dynamics, these vehicles may gain a substantial value point over their mechanical drive competitors.

I have set out another set of targets and objectives for 2011, one of which is to join your course to aid me further, and I also intend to trade at a low leverage first to test out my trading skills over the forthcoming year, at which point I will step up the leverage.

Certainly not his little helpers at TLI... Charles Tracy & Ian Reynolds, both on the board since day one, deserve their fair share of the blame for a litany of mishaps & generally nasty surprises over the years... leverage, currency hedging, tax liabilities, credit exposure, life expectancies, policy expiries, premium increases & whatever other risks / issues I may have forgotten at this point.

I always make it a point to highlight my disdain for leveraged ETFs as an «investment» since they tend to lose value over time regardless of the performance of the underlying benchmark given the value decay from daily rebalancing.

Based on the premise that things are tough all over, the article points out five specific areas in which healthy retailers can improve their businesses by leveraging the current state of the economy.

And as we have pointed out recently, the panicky tone of environmentalists is owed not to the emergence of new climate research but to their need to sustain leverage over a sympathetic establishment.

@user3270: The mediator's leverage over the parties on points of contention is... «if this goes to trial, the judge could rule against you because of X, Y and Z.» He puts the fear of being ruled against into the calculation of both parties.

I think I proved quite well in my earlier post why the 15 yr note is far more powerful in terms of cash flow over the full 30 yrs on the note illustrated; however, regardless of what has been argued to this point regarding cash flow of 15 vs 30, the power of a 30 yr note over a 15 yr note in the first 15 yrs is buying power through leverage.