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Entire hatcheries were transplanted off world, and Kamino began to lose what little leverage it had over the Republic.

Applications that did not leverage application server security were typically found to have serious security holes.

"You can leverage US GAAP for certain topic areas but the bottom line is there hasn't been a lot of material developed on IFRS, " he said.

If everyone knew minny wanted to trade him, they'd use that knowledge as leverage for trying to get a more advantageous trade.

"We're not being unreasonable, " Inhofe said. "The only leverage we have is the quorum leverage, and if we get stonewalled, we'll use it. "

I felt that I had a little bit more leverage with him, given that I'm paying his college tuition then with off-the-street program.

Trying to leverage on their companies' assets, their assets, and their creativity at a very young age.

Her second thoughts about the bank's leverage crusade led to her being sidelined into a policy job a year before the bank went belly-up.

But it wasn't able to leverage those offerings with the relative smattering of users it had.

They are responding to fears that excessive leverage in investment banking businesses was one of the causes of the crisis.

Leverage has a darker side from a value perspective as well: it has the potential to turn a good investment into a bad one!

How much leverage does the president have in terms of resolving conflicts between the houses of Congress?

We laid out an investment strategy for him, very conservative, and he said: 'So how much can I leverage this by? '

In other cases, policy announcements seem to be mainly intended as ways of increasing a government body's leverage over those it regulates.

In this pose, your stomach is almost touching his bent knee; use it for support and leverage as you rock back and forth, and up and down.

Be able to leverage the studio to follow commercial projects with A&D and customers to help sales realization.

The measure gives an idea to the leverage of the company along with the potential risks the company faces in terms of its debt-load.

Even if it was arguably a bad long-term move to cater to clients' desires for less leverage, there was only so much Turtles could do.

"One of the ways the PBOC has gained leverage over the export lobby is to be able to point at currency legislation, " Mr Scissors says.

If you think Senator Marcus is going to be leverage, he's not.

Did the economy at least benefit from the run-up in leverage? Hardly.

The G20 leaders were right to argue that containing leverage has to be a focus of any revamp of the global financial system.

"I'm able to leverage the power of the Internet to get restitution for a victim of the Internet, " he said.

You will learn to judge a good distance based on how much leverage you feel in your legs.

It also would allow the company to leverage its distributed-computing infrastructure to help clients slim down their internal data centers.

Such a partnership would not preclude a deal with Microsoft, but may give Yahoo leverage to negotiate a higher offer.

Sure, leverage can get you into a home or a new car, but too much debt is one of the biggest drags on your financial well-being.

You'll also be in position to leverage any enhancements and expansions to Portland that might be coming up in the future.

But the key question is, though, said the strategic reciprocal relations, Japan has no strategy, no diplomatic leverage.

Some analysts say North Korea may be trying to gain leverage for negotiations with the international community.

With leverage, a buyer might be prepared to pay close to its estimated "economic value" if held to maturity.

Yu suggested the North may be threatening the restoration of its Yongbyon facility as a means of gaining diplomatic leverage.

Whenever you see a financial product or strategy with its foundations in leverage, your first reaction should be skepticism, not delight.

We sincerely hope to work with you to leverage our global resources to develop simultaneously more room!

You can't apply the leverage ratio -- or any other debt measure, for that matter -- to banks or other financial organizations.

Or put another way, how much leverage does Clinton have?

Some economists say they are less concerned about how much leverage China has than at the speed of the rise in China's leverage.

The other possibility, he said, is that Tehran is trying to increase its leverage heading into any eventual negotiations with Washington.

And he would be in a tremendous position in terms of earning power and leverage.

The only way Kim can leverage his weaker military power is by making his opponents believe he may be crazy enough to launch a war anyway.

It appears Fiat is really trying to leverage the current industry situation to make significant steps forward against the competition.

Still, he said the law could be used to gain leverage in negotiations with China.

The movement of capital away from the U. S. was one reason hungry banks turned to more absurd forms of leverage.

The bottom line is none of the frameworks is doing enough to leverage the declarative nature of MXML.

It will take, he suggests, a global leadership class that can answer essential questions: How much leverage should be allowed?

Holding back on the fuel for Bushehr was one bit of Russian leverage in the nuclear dispute with Iran that is now being lost.

Yet if China has few options but to keep buying US Treasuries, it can still try to turn its investments into some sort of leverage.

"Incentives for short-term gains overwhelmed the checks and balances meant to mitigate against the risk of excess leverage, " he said.

Even the mighty China, the only country with a smidgen of leverage, has fumbled for a coherent strategy.

NAB said the purchase would help it leverage its capabilities in structured property financing transactions and funds distribution.

While you could write your own, take the easy route and leverage all the hard work the Axis developers already have done.

What remains unknown, however, is whether the United States will be able to leverage tomorrow's innovations into millions of jobs.

Get more productive by creating simple to-do lists for your deals. Use tags to leverage the power of your contacts.

Most importantly, we hope that this facility can help leverage additional resources from other development partners to address this crisis.

Thinking about this more deeply, one realizes that contextual tools leverage semantics in a much more interesting way.

The Crown group adviser said the consortium expects part of its business plan would be 'to really leverage growth in China. '

Because it had to do with being able to borrow and leverage up to buy that market.

"To support the leverage, lenders needed to believe in [Sanyo's chip] prospects and of being able to generate stable cash flow. "

So legally, there seem to be few legs to stand on. But the government does have leverage - a lot of it.

You bring them in, and what you create is a new, unique culture and you leverage it to create unique value for the business.

That would give those companies and their governments a certain amount of leverage, he said.

As financial institutions reduce leverage and build reserves against losses, the cost of borrowing will be higher for a time.

Leverage did not so much disappear as become socialised.

The company now no bank loans, also shows that companies do not consider the use of financial leverage to make profits to expand.

SDO is not just a specification. You can already find tools that leverage SDO technology to access a heterogeneous EIS.

The Restlet Framework also supports its own XML-based configuration apart from being able to leverage Spring XML configuration mechanisms.

You may therefore be able to leverage multiple IBM Cloud data centers as part of a strategy to minimize network latency.

This allows you to leverage our unparalleled technical expertise on your design, manufacturing and quality engineering teams.

Given the recent explosion in leverage, the challenge is unlikely to be one of mispricing of the toxic mortgage-backed securities alone.

They leverage our regional presence and enhance our regional leadership at a time of evolving security challenges.

It takes a special skill to be able to leverage the available tools to insert the appropriate breakpoints and debug trace messages.

China's leverage over North Korea is limited but it is more significant than that of any other nation.

Frank: One of the initial goals of GraniteDS was to leverage all features of JPA engines, starting with lazy-loading and Hibernate.

It is able to leverage this pool for a higher number of lightweight threads, which can context-switch and start up quite fast.

In the US, it was an increase in overall leverage, base rates that slowly ratcheted up over five years, and reckless lending.

As unwinding leverage fails to be cushioned by a government check, prices go down on risk assets.

Operating Leverage A measurement of the degree to which a firm or project relies on fixed rather than variable costs .

But the Fund has no leverage on the US as a deficit country and has never had leverage on countries in surplus.

Can you leverage and rework any of that content to serve as landing pages for your desired search terms?

Authorised investors will prequalify for dollar-for-dollar government equity and up to six times leverage guaranteed by the FDIC.

Thus replacing excessive private sector leverage with inefficient and market-distorting state leverage is not a path to a more stable world.

In other words, PaaS allows you to leverage the seemingly infinite compute resources of a cloud infrastructure.

The instance document creator wants to leverage the profile, but has no interest in building or editing profiles.

Blair sold involvement in the Iraq war to many sceptics in Britain on the grounds that this would gain him leverage in Washington.

It has secured $3. 9bn in equity for Asian investment, giving it a potential buying power in the region, with leverage, of $15. 6bn.

He said that he believed none of the investors use leverage.

Future versions will leverage the ship's reconfigurable payload capacity for a wide range of missions, including anti-piracy.

Design patterns force you to think about slicing your problems into discrete sub-problems, some of which may leverage repeatable solutions.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

By the measure of mean estimation, when the company's financial leverage at a reasonable range , the company show a good performance.

This enables reporting tools to leverage all the derived measures contained in the logical data model the same as any other column .

It's what I call the Goldman Sachs Effect: Goldman increased its leverage and its profit margins shot into the stratosphere.

Now, having taken a huge write-off on a 2006 acquisition, it has by far the highest leverage of any of the super majors.

But Moscow needs Western nuclear safety technology to bring its own nuclear reactors up to world standards, which provides some leverage.

Real solutions are beginning to leverage service oriented architectural principles, including the use of Web services.

Economic leverage with the combination of coercion than a simple across the board to be flexible.

The credit bubble was the latter day means of financing the switch from thrift to leverage by US individuals.

It is possible to leverage many Windows technologies for securing access and managing any applications running on Azure.

Partly for that reason, Europe's leaders do not have a great deal of leverage over Italy.

But Kaukenov says China's real strategy for gaining leverage with its neighbors, like Kazakhstan, begins with showing them the money.

Now, there is nothing inherently wrong with using derivatives or leverage; or not if investors understand the risks.

Other firms give investors greater access, via their websites, to up-to-date information about returns, leverage and liquidity.

We were as strong as oxes, but in rough seas and with no leverage, it was never going to happen.

We see 2008 shaping up as a year when low-leverage capital will displace highly leveraged owners and buyers in both the US and the UK.

As the number of homes for sale decrease, sellers have more leverage and a better shot at getting an offer close to their asking price.

As time went on, humans continued to use their brains to develop more leverage.

This Ford Remote Key Pocket was designed to provide a place to put you remote key and to have better leverage when starting your vehicle.

China is the only country with anything resembling leverage over North Korea and its rogue nuclear weapons programme.

I'm actually using a variation of the debt snowball in my own life, modified a bit to leverage risk.

Levy reasoned that the program would be much more effective if the money could be used as leverage.

The second floor is choc-a-block with electronic stores, and I wonder if I can use my current quote as leverage.

Skills: Because you've got to leverage what you're strong with.

The structured method allows you to leverage the power of both relational data and XML hierarchies.

New Delhi, however, "has no bargaining leverage with China except the Dalai Lama, " says Dr. Pant.

We need some leverage, it seems to me, before we engage the Iranians.

Visitors should be greeted by an enthusiastic sales representative who can leverage the exhibit.

Their response was to search for yield in riskier areas of the market and then try to enhance returns through leverage, or borrowings.

Others in Washington and throughout Asia can only hope that too much U. S. leverage on China is not whittled away in the meantime.

They also force you to think about how you formally represent and communicate your design knowledge, so that others can leverage your work.

MultiChip Products leverage Analog Devices silicon into a single package, providing a robust, cost effective and space saving solutions.

And the holding structure in the capital manipulation makes the leverage effect for the company control the bigger asset with small capital.

We leverage years of industry knowledge and experience to offer increased plant efficiency and safety at lower installed cost.

Moreover, the leverage requirement that served as a backstop for capital requirements on banks was not applied to these investment banks.

Use those skills to leverage yourself up to the next level.

Deployment of new services has little to no impact on existing running services, yet is able to leverage existing resources.

Last year he was the first western central banker to call for the use of a leverage ratio to help monitor bank capital levels .

eg. Again, both new forms of leverage were used for peacetime purposes and for warfare.

The idea is to share and leverage the company's content in a manner that quietly promotes its products.

Still, we rarely leverage the flexibility that this type of architecture affords us.

Both in terms of the health care reform bill and the Wall Street reform bill, both of which gives leverage to America's working family.

Here's one way to look at the politics of our era: We've moved from The Age of Leverage to The Great Unwinding.

In the broad definition of the word, the word leverage simply means the ability to do more with less.

Again, both new forms of leverage were used for peacetime purposes and for warfare.

"This is one of the few places where pre-crisis leverage is still available, " said a person close to the deal.

The model will contribute to set up the Metadata Management System as well as leverage user experience and loyalty.

In addition to its support for progressive enhancement, jQuery allows you to leverage a large, vibrant community of plug-in developers.

Apps allow businesses to leverage nearly infinite resources of information and services by satisfying one highly targeted need at a time.

At first sight, sprinters might be expected to have more Achilles leverage than average, not less. First sight, however, is wrong.

If you buy distressed, leveraged, out-of-favour companies on the verge of bankruptcy, hoping for a turnround, you are using leverage.

"There's an opportunity here as you're getting in cheaper to the leveraged fund as people are fearful of leverage, " he argues.

Deleveraging will probably continue. Even if it does not, another such period of rising leverage seems inconceivable.

So far the torpedo has proved a damp squib, with observers arguing that Europe has not gained any leverage to press its demands.

Senior officials talked up China's importance and leverage over the United States and avoided any actions that could antagonize Beijing.

If that is the case, then, as a senior E. U. official speaking on condition of anonymity said, "The E. U. has some leverage with China. "

He adds that generics companies held much-needed expertise and that the centre's goal is to leverage skills, not to compete.

Leverage meant debt, specifically the number of dollars you could borrow for every dollar of wealth you had.

In effect, pSeries has been able to leverage some of the iSeries technology that was initially derived from the zSeries systems.

Klaus Regling, the EFSF's head, is wrong to say that market volatility has made it impossible to reach the leverage target.

You'll seldom see such a percentage anywhere, let alone at large, diversified companies with nominal leverage.

The proof of this leverage would be that the Bush administration would "deliver" on the Middle East peace process.

In particular he pointed to the long-awaited return of "positive operating leverage" with revenues growing faster than expenses.

For years India has attempted to enhance its global profile and leverage and aspired to be a global power by developing military strength.

Lastly, you can use the naysayers to your advantage as leverage in giving you some added motivation in terms of wanting to prove them wrong.

He takes a moment to collect his thoughts, then announces, firstly, no one is going to kill Bob; he is their only leverage.

Leverage multiplies the power of your business because with leverage, every dollar you make in profit is multiplied.

Micro-partitioning is a powerful feature that allows you to leverage your processor resources with maximum efficiency.

But he himself claims that he puts only a minuscule amount of his net worth on the table for trading activity using leverage.

But with the checks already out, the most leverage the White House may have will likely come when AIG comes back for more money.

By working within the framework of brand values established in the Footprint, they both support and leverage the power of the brand.

Therefore, it is possible to use leverage (margin) to produce the maximum trade size based on this rule.

Awkwardly for the West, China has the greatest leverage, thanks to its unseemly haste to invest in North Korea's mines and ports.

None of these leverage the primary reason these mobile devices exist: voice.

Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, has come up with a wheeze that would allow governments to leverage their financial firepower.

This paper introduces the concept of land leverage considered as an important factor that can influence the change of house price.

He also consults for companies that build development tools to help them leverage and support aspect-oriented programming technology.

In Russia, we seek to establish a strong presence early on and would expect to leverage our destination strengths, particularly in Turkey.

In these cases, use this discussion period to determine how you can leverage the system within the portal.

This approach would leverage the Web server's authorization-checking mechanisms, but would not be practical.

The best way for us to gain leverage on Russia and Iran would be with an energy policy that reduced the price and significance of oil.

Installing Linux allows you to leverage the advanced hardware with the advantages of open source tools and open standards.

Installing Linux allows you to leverage the advanced hardware with the advantages of open source tools and open standards.

With the US economy turning down and some corners of the debt markets in turmoil, financial leverage has been going out of fashion fast.

It is here that the organization should leverage a strong reference architecture that limits choices to the barest minimum.

It remains unclear what leverage China might be willing to use against the North.

Big ideas usually come from technical innovation or quality research and must leverage the company's core strengths.

Bringing this about will take time but, with America's negotiating leverage limited, it looks like the most realistic strategy.

On the latter, it remains silent, with the word "leverage" notable by its absence in Mr Blankfein's lament.

You leverage available DOM attributes to carry context and pass it as part of the action performed by the user.

The main goal of the Commissioners is to leverage policy change by turning existing public health knowledge into actionable policy agendas.

It may be prudent to avoid investments which utilize leverage to 'juice up' the returns.

'Leverage is a very dangerous thing, ' he said.

Just being online is not enough to leverage digital channels to drive business imperatives .

One of those things is to leverage the YouTube community to make videos for nonprofits.

Put simply, Wall Street firms used towering leverage to make tons of money in a long-running bull market that blatantly under priced risk.

But analysts say Iran is under massive pressure, giving the United States unprecedented leverage as the talks get underway.

They'd still be able to influence the vast set of rules on capital, leverage, and other financial issues that wouldbe written by regulators.

"But I think they are serious investors, and I'm impressed by the fact that they don't have a high turnover. . . and don't use leverage. "

Still, each deal differs from the next, depending in part on the composition of artists' business and their leverage in negotiations.

Russia has considerable leverage due to the deep interdependencies between the two national economies.

The leverage available in forex trading is one of main attractions of this market for many traders.

Top leg straight out to the side applies the most leverage, which helps to keep the hips fully turned.

The bosses of banks continued piling on leverage and taking ever greater risks because they felt they would be fired if they did not.

He will likely not call off the talks, but might try to possibly leverage some conciliatory talk out of Abbas.

Because financial intermediaries need to limit their leverage in a falling market, they sell assets (again, the system is pro-cyclical).

But a semblance of normality will not mean a return to the spellbinding leverage of the credit bubble.

It is perfectly valid to leverage a technology for a layer it does not target if other criteria are more important.

After that, cautious consumers and a humbled financial sector on a leverage diet might keep profits from rising very far.

Leverage - An old investment maxim is not to invest more than you can afford to lose.

Going forward, look to leverage frameworks with out-of-the-box Ajax support to reduce the complexity of the integration.

These companies are sitting on valuable assets, Mr. Kaplan argues, providing 'the greatest leverage to a bull market. '

Interpersonal connections are not maintained face-to-face, so we need to leverage technology to help us communicate across the globe.

At the left, you see an example of one of the files that leverage Adobe Illustrator's special effects like transparency.

Leverage is the power to maximize results with the least amount of energy, time, money and risk.

The only substantial change in the results is that leverage is no longer significant.

Policymakers are far from agreeing the leverage they would be happy with, and on what measure.

DB2 enables you to leverage all these options to maximize your productivity and adapt your queries to the needs of your applications.

In the last recession, of the early 1990s, UK leverage was barely more than 100 per cent and in the US it was less than 90 per cent.

But a company which can align its business goals with environmental improvements has plenty of leverage at its command.

The business sector has entered this slowdown in a very strong position with low leverage and record profits, margins and ROEs .

That means such Chinese firms are unlikely to have enough leverage to convince their customers to pay in yuan rather than dollars.

Typical reference architecture, shown in figure 3, can leverage the clustering features of WebSphere Application Server.

Working together with the UN and the African Union, they both have leverage to help influence a peaceful and workable separation.

With more than six million jobs lost since the recession began, many job seekers have less leverage when it comes to salary.

He said China was fully aware of Madrid's game but was exploiting intra-EU divisions to gain leverage.

The ugly flip side of leverage is now obvious, and massive write-downs have shattered confidence in Wall Street's risk-management machinery.

Since the Chinese seem willing to accumulate foreign currency reserves without limit, the leverage of its partners is limited.

This would give the company volume for its PowerPC devices and leverage for other PowerPC offerings.

Leverage ratios soared from their 2004 levels, as the bank's models indicated that they had sufficient capital cushions.

In the same way, weighing a situation before we respond to it gives us the greatest leverage in determining the outcome.

Kavanagh says the high volatility of the markets is largely due to institutions offloading assets to meet leverage requirements.

Emerging companies leverage advanced production equipment, take advantage of technology research center was established.

It was a stupid policy for China to view North Korea's nuclear weapon as potential leverage against the US.

Navis feels uncomfortable taking on much leverage, but expects to spend lots of time with its acquisitions.

Not only will the total result with leverage almost always be amplified, but your income is not dependent on only one person.

Leverage means borrowing to finance investments and is frequently cited as a contributor to financial crises.

The composite layered architecture of an SOA can leverage existing systems and integrate them using service-oriented integration techniques.

The fiscal stimulus does not come with large bank lending to support it, so the leverage effect in the U.

Process frameworks help you leverage existing best practices across the organization as well as provide some level of consistency.

Unlike banner ads, these viral campaigns truly leverage the network aspect of these social networking sites.

Most seek to leverage the EFSF by turning it into a bank or an insurance company or by using a special purpose vehicle.

Financial leverage is the use of liabilities of enterprises to adjust the means of the rights and interests of capital gains.

collateral value is correlated positively with the secular leverage, and is correlated negatively with the leverage of current assets.

To what degree does your organization's value delivery system enable its operating strategy to leverage value over costs?

Getting back to the difference between a saver and an investor, there is one word that separates them, and that word is leverage.

The key is to leverage your knowledge by sharing information and insights with your boss and coworkers.

There will also be a renewed emphasis on value-based selling to leverage ABB's leadership position in the market.

Supporting them now, if you can, will be leverage to ask for a discount in the future.

Adoption decisions in each are centralized, fostering uniformity of content, and that gives pressure groups significant leverage.

Once you start to leverage GAE and store and retrieve real data from it, indexing becomes a real-world (as in real dollar) concern.

When evaluating potential solutions, keep in mind that you want to leverage existing investments and incorporate business priorities.

"Stay away from leverage, " he said.

We should pay great care to this wisdom and ensure that Web services leverage existing knowledge and expertise to "see farther" .

Instead, leverage the Java EE authentication model and Java EE roles in conjunction with your specific extended rules.

For that reason, the program is seeking additional partners to leverage IDA resources, .

Second, set up and improve the system for internal IPR management, and learn to leverage IPR for self-development and protection.

It is a library that helps you leverage multi-core processor performance without having to be a threading expert.

To overcome this final problem, Figure 3 illustrates how the scenario can be extended to leverage asynchronous messaging .

The attitudes of the banks, other lenders and capital markets to leverage have changed, if not for all time, for a considerable time.

But with its climate-change bill still languishing in Congress, Washington has little leverage.

Sitting at the crossroads of the energy-rich Middle East and the former Soviet Union, Turkey has unique leverage as a transit hub for gas.