1.   And U.S. diplomats, using economic leverage, should be assigned to promote them.

2.   But the only real economic leverage the United States holds is its power within the IMF to block disbursement of the next payment of loans.

3.   He declined to comment, however, on persistent reports that the administration had used its economic leverage with Mexico as a tool.

4.   Rapid growth has given China enough economic leverage to buy off all external pressure.

5.   The United States has less economic leverage in Burma than in many countries around the world.

6.   The United States and other countries are funneling much of their aid money through Kabul to give Karzai economic leverage over defiant warlords.

7.   The United States has relatively little economic leverage left, since it has already imposed severe economic sanctions on Myanmar as a result of its human rights record.

8.   He did not elaborate on how economic leverage might be applied.