It also gave the British real leverage over the rest of the world.

The real leverage that the workers had was withholding their labor, which kept the factories and public utilities running.

With no control over his immediate future, Sheffield is trying to use the only real leverage he has: threats.

"The only real leverage I had over him was he needed the money."

"The real leverage is on the side of ideas," he said.

Training camp 1989 opened with the usual holdouts that were common in the 1980s, even though without tree free agency players had no real leverage.

It is the only real leverage the regime has.

Certainly Washington should put more pressure on India, but it lacks real leverage.

"The real leverage is what both parties saw when we were active," he said.

China is perhaps the only country to have any real leverage over the North Korean regime.