11.   If every player were a free agent, the law of supply and demand would work against the players and their bargaining leverage would be drastically undermined.

12.   In big cases, he said, several creditors routinely oppose extensions to gain bargaining leverage to win concessions from the company.

13.   In real estate, buyers are well aware of their bargaining leverage, making them extremely fussy.

14.   It was troubling to see the foreign minister of a great power desperately trying to use his own weakness as bargaining leverage.

15.   Members fight to get on Calendars because of its power over bills and bargaining leverage for their own legislative package.

16.   That has left unions with strong bargaining leverage in a handful of industries, including aircraft, steel and autos.

17.   Texas recently passed a law to give self-employed doctors more bargaining leverage.

18.   They can organize more aggressively and seek to gain bargaining leverage with employers.

19.   Union leaders say they fear they will lose bargaining leverage if the strikers are forced back to work.

20.   Anxious not to lose bargaining leverage, Taiwan wants to open shipping direct links first to foreign-registered vessels transhipping cargoes originating in third countries.