Economic leverage should be applied as well.

But there are levers in place that can help.

If a depression is to be avoided, it will have to be the work of other arms of the government, with other tools and powers.

Its handling of Mugabe over the past eight years has actually underplayed its leverage.

The answer is simple Central banks have turned on their liquidity hoses again, providing a boost to risky assets.

A withdrawing power that first announces a phased exit and then pursues deal making with the enemy undermines its regional leverage.

The single market also provides a platform and leverage to export goods and services to international markets.

The Foreign Minister and the European Security Council must be allowed to use all available European leverage to the fullest.

We will make use of all the levers of power, right up to the European Court of Human Rights , he told RIA Novosti.

Today is Europe s moment of maximum flexibility as dependence on Russian energy supplies grows, the EU s leverage weakens.

Russia s goal is not to create another North American Free Trade Agreement it is to create another EU, with the Kremlin holding all of the real levers of power.

To avert a repetition, securities held by banks must carry a much higher risk rating than they currently do. Banks must pay for their implicit government guarantee by using less leverage and accepting restrictions on how they invest depositors money.

All of this implies that connectedness will remain a double edged sword the leverage it provides being fraught with vulnerability.

Banks must pay for their implicit government guarantee by using less leverage and accepting restrictions on how they invest depositors money.

Greece s membership in the European Union gives its creditors significant leverage, but evidently not enough to change the fundamental calculus.

El Silbon (a person who whistles a lot) and La Sayona are two of the most popular characters that have spread to other regions.

Even these limited efforts are obstructed by the hardline Wahhabi camp, which controls the security forces, the judiciary system, and the real levers of domestic power.

As a result, Syria is most likely to become an arena in which regional powers, with the backing of interested outsiders, compete for leverage.

At that point, they will put in place the regulatory or legal controls needed to reduce fossil fuel use dramatically.

The Basel 3 Accord, adherence to which increased the liquidity of all banks and decreased their leverage, is viewed as a firm standard in some parts of the world.

For this reason, China is attempting to use economic and military aid as leverage to improve relations even with countries with which it has had military confrontations with in the past, most prominently Vietnam and the Philippines.

It is not as if maintaining its 1.3 billion in annual military aid gives the US any leverage over Egypt s behavior.

Indeed, by relying mainly on military solutions to political problems, the US seems to be increasing rather than reducing the threats it faces.

Second, given the lock that the Communist Party holds on all the levers of power, the building of democracy in China depends on forces rooted inside China.

The Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad retains huge influence over key levers of the Lebanese state, including the security and intelligence apparatus, the army, and the judiciary not to mention an alliance with the militarily powerful Hezbollah.

Herein lies the core of the dilemma for the US it wants Egypt s basic state apparatus to survive, so that the levers of power do not fall into the wrong hands.

Otherwise, they could end up without any handle on the Iranian nuclear program, and only one useless option left, a military strike.

In the end, Putin has what history left him not ideas, just a faction yearning to consolidate its grip on power.

One country could help the world gain the transparency and the leverage that it needs China, over whose territory Iran and North Korea must be conducting their nuclear relations.

For starters, Chávez is a formidable campaigner, and he has at his disposal every available lever of state power, from the Electoral Council to PDVSA, the national oil company.

It is hard to understand why the US does so little to advance the goal of regional stabilization, especially since it still retains considerable leverage in this respect.

Instead of persisting in a counterproductive war effort, the US should use its leverage on India and Pakistan to bring them back to peace negotiations.

The article attributed the crisis to policies that called on market forces to be given full play with the scrapping of government controls, especially on the financial market.

Nor will the West acknowledge Iran s centrality to any multilateral process, for fear of losing negotiating leverage with respect to Iran s nuclear program.

By circumventing Ukraine, Poland, and of course, the Baltic countries, the new pipeline promises greater leverage to the Kremlin as it seeks to reassert itself regionally.

If we are to create a more equitable world, then traditional levers of development such as trade, investment, aid, and migration need to be scaled up comprehensively and coherently, and global institutions must be reformed.

To achieve this, he would need to use all of the leverage at his disposal, including cutting off the massive military assistance that the US provides to Egypt s armed forces, as he has threatened to do.

Each crisis hit economy had increased its financial leverage the ratio of domestic credit to GDP by 30 percentage points over five years shortly before their credit bubbles popped.

If we are to create a more equitable world, then traditional levers of development such as trade, investment, aid, and migration need to be scaled up comprehensively and coherently, and global institutions must be reformed.

Secular, military, and Mubarak era foes of the Muslim Brotherhood have used every lever at their disposal, democratic or not, to block the Islamist parties democratic exercise of power.

Public acceptance of ideas is itself progress of a kind, but what really matters is that it provides leverage that can be used to bring about more concrete progress.

In effect, rather than according serious room for decision making to his prime minister, François Fillon, or to Fillon s cabinet, Sarkozy has arrogated almost every lever of power to himself and his advisers within the Élysée Palace.

With the outcome of Bush s ill advised war in Iraq uncertain and his legacy depending heavily upon finding a political solution, Iran s support for Iraqi Shiite radicals could give it considerable leverage.

There was a lot of pressure from the US media on the Obama administration to use all means to secure Jason s release, which meant the IRGC had even stronger leverage for a prisoner swap.

Efforts by primary and secondary schools could help to foster more diverse interests among female students, giving talented young women the tools they need to make important contributions to key economic sectors.