Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

At Standing Rock, we experienced, first-hand, people coming together in their communities and trying to use the levers of representative democracy to try and say, 'We don't want this in our community; we don't want this in our backyard,' and corporations using their monetary influence to completely erode that process.

American Politician

Alexandre Dumas

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

French Dramatist

Laurence D. Fink

To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there's a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost.

American Businessman

Robert Baden-Powell

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

English Soldier

Mark Wahlberg

But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.

American Actor

Gina Miller

In uncertain times, it is of heightened importance that our elected representatives exercise their democratic duty and use all levers at parliament's disposal to ensure a fair balance of powers.

Guyanese Activist

Thomas J. Watson

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Norwegian Politician

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

French Statesman

W. E. B. Du Bois

Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.

American Writer

The word 'lever' as a noun often refers to a physical tool.

Physical Object

'Lever' implies making a task easier, especially lifting or moving heavy objects.

Ease of Action

In mechanisms, 'lever' can mean a part designed for hand control.

Operational Use

When used as a verb, 'lever' means applying force to move something.

Action of Moving

'Lever' as a verb also suggests using an object to accomplish the action.

Using Tools

'Lever' in finance relates to using debt to increase investment power.

Investment Strategy

In finance, a 'levered' investment carries more risk due to potential debt.

Risk Implication

 them they sort of there are retractable claws but the levers will obviously bring them up when they've stopped the prey and they jump on the prey to grab it's they'll use their claws to hold onto the prey and particularly with hard prayed things like warthog and then it helps them hold on so until they get the

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 Here are the as with normal foosball, the object is to score points by spinning levers with tiny players to sink the ball in your opponent’s goal. Only instead of a standard ball, you’ll be playing with a giant electron. It behaves like a normal electron in all respects, it’s just much larger.

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 fuels in addition to those levers we could talk about other ways of solving this issue namely we could use demand and that means reducing population I'm not sure how to do that all reducing per capita consumption so let's talk about three more big levers that could really help on the

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 All of you, when you're arguing, have that important lever to play. When do you make your argument? You don't just need the right argument, you need the right argument at the right moment. When is it that your audience -- a spouse, a boss, a child -- is going to be most receptive?

How to win an argument...

 Namely, we could reduce demand, and that means reducing population -- I'm not sure how to do that -- or reducing per capita consumption. So let's talk about three more big levers that could really help on the consumption side. First, transport. Here are the physics principles

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 and the mannequin challenge went viral now the young people globally who push this lever acts for the permission from the government but now what did we do we have to co-create by creating our own versions of dab and mannequin challenge are the young influences we have a seat

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 describing the fundamental principle behind the lever. The idea of a person moving such a huge mass on their own might sound like magic, but chances are you've seen it in your everyday life. One of the best examples is something you might recognize

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 When anyone presses the button, the robot will bring everyone who pulled a lever back home. Anyone who didn’t will be lost in the multi-verse forever. The challenge is to make sure everyone has pulled a lever before anyone hits the button.

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 before they break free and overrun the world. Your calculations have given you a 46-digit number for the count of rabbits in the bottom cell– plenty of room to spare. But just as you pull the lever to start the experiment,

 it springs the trap so if i get a stick and i just lever it up you can see yeah in there you see it now he's in there okay so he he's gonna wait until an insect

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