As a general rule, the archbishop had sufficient political leverage to ensure success for his own monks in these disputes.

This gives Basil sufficient leverage to court the queen.

So it has been necessary to fit a particularly long tiller in order to apply sufficient leverage.

This provided sufficient leverage for Hamar to host additional events.

I finally had to put a foot up against the side of the car to get sufficient leverage to wrench the door open.

But there was nothing that would be both concealable from the teachers and powerful enough to give smaller kids sufficient leverage over larger ones.

Such holdings are known as "blocking stakes," giving both companies seats on the Sidanko board and sufficient leverage to influence the company's business activities.

We are the only country with sufficient leverage to force Turkey to re-examine its military presence in Cyprus.

"Clearly you need a major diplomatic effort to assemble sufficient leverage to bring all the Haitian parties to a new outcome," he said.

Moreover, we now have sufficient leverage in Saudi Arabia to simply demand a greater contribution from that country.