He does, though, use his new leverage with the principal to get out of covering detention and restart the history club.

That has put the company in violation of loan covenants, giving the banks their new leverage.

Feerick's decision could give new leverage to one side.

The veto would give the President substantial new leverage in some situations.

Still, state officials say the lower prices appear to have given new leverage in their dealings with electricity generators.

This puts our new leverage at less than 2 to 1.

The system would give any President enormous new leverage with Congress.

I think, though, that with the new tools and new leverage available to us, the decisions get even more important.

The effort is beginning to give Mexican workers important new leverage in a world of globalized production.

It also gives him new leverage to pressure the suddenly isolated teachers' union to rethink its contract rejection.