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Перевод: leverage

[существительное]
действие рычага; система рычагов; рычажная передача; усилие рычага; выигрыш в силе при переводе рычага; способ для достижения цели; средство достижения цели; использование кредита для биржевой игры

Тезаурус:

1. First, its supranational executive, a Board of Commissioners, would have considerably less leverage than the ECSC High Authority against the national representatives in the Council of Ministers.
2. She was tempted to use the weather as an excuse to postpone her visit to J. Pringle Sons, but the work ethic that had carried her successfully through so many years of study and so many examinations now exerted its leverage on her conscience once more.
3. In other circumstances, commercial agreements, tariffs and loans might give diplomatic leverage.
4. When making an inspection of work in progress the surveyor should not hesitate to obtain the services of the contractor to satisfy himself that the work is done correctly, e.g. to check fixings by applying leverage or loading or to ascertain that screeds or pavings are correctly laid with a site level.
5. The middle peasant, the small freeholder, has the tactical leverage of independence.
6. Surely we reach out wide during a sweep stroke to obtain more leverage for the very same reason.
7. With those I returned at speed to the boathouse and attacked the lower door, first hammering the toe of the tyre lever into a nonexistent crack between the wooden door frame and the surrounding brickwork at a level just below the keyhole, then bashing the far end of that iron, to put heavy leverage against the door frame, then wrenching out the lever and repeating the whole process above the lock, this time with fury.
8. "These people have leverage.
9. The unions would use the early settlements made in annual negotiations as a precedent to obtain leverage in their own bargaining and would attempt to improve upon them still further.
10. The second type of breakage occurs not at the top tie but near ground level, when the extra leverage imparted by wind on the long stem reveals the weak spot in a stake that has been allowed to rot and deteriorate.
11. The first is that of leverage.
12. But in particular terms (and in terms of " kto-kogo "), economic rationality means that Romania must exchange its hard-earned capacity to manufacture steel or munitions for a dependence on the GDR, Czechoslovakia and the USSR which costs more in freedom and leverage than it saves in economic resources.
13. The hindquarters are the means of support and act as a leverage for locomotion.