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"Leverage" Quotes from Famous Books

... people who have no personal resources to draw on. Their lives are so lacking in spiritual power, or so full of intellectual scepticism and distrust, that they cannot help themselves. They have no religious convictions or certainties by which to obtain leverage in their struggles. They have no firm philosophy of life on which they or those who would help them can lay hold. They are putty in the hands of the fears and forces that beset them ...

— The Conquest of Fear • Basil King

... have had oars twenty feet long, and more, in that case," said the Captain. "You must allow for leverage, you see." ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... in on the ground floor this time; though I may ask you to hold your hand until I have used my leverage. And if you'll go into it to stay, you sha'n't be alone. Giving the Argus precedence in any item of news, I'll engage to have every other opposition editor in the State ready to ...

— The Grafters • Francis Lynde

... saying: for it's the justification of everything we are going to do in the future, unless we get what we're asking for! It's this. Our justification is that men, even poor men, have that powerful leverage of the vote. You men have no right to resort to violence; you have a better way. We have no way but agitation. A Liberal ...

— The Convert • Elizabeth Robins

... coastlines on Persian Gulf and Red Sea provide great leverage on shipping (especially crude oil) through Persian Gulf and ...

— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... modelled after the trunk of a sturdy oak in Windsor Park, became the model for all subsequent lighthouses. It is as firm to-day as when originally built, but the reef on which it rests has been undermined and shattered by the joint action of the waves and the leverage of the tall stone column, against which the seas strike with prodigious force, causing it to vibrate like the trunk of a tree in a storm. The foundation-stone of the new lighthouse was laid on a reef one hundred and twenty-seven feet south of the old one in 1878. It is built ...

— England, Picturesque and Descriptive - A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel • Joel Cook

... manipulation fails, recourse should be had to an open operation. The upper fragment should be exposed by an incision over its lateral aspect, and made to return to the socket by using Arbuthnot Lane's levers or M'Burney's hook, or a long steel pin may be inserted into the fragment to give the necessary leverage. ...

— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

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