There is also a sense that Mr Mbeki fears losing a lever of control.
Similarly, the Saudis have rejected the use of oil exports to America as a lever to force policy changes.
According to proponents of EPR, however, without the initial government requirement as a lever, voluntary programs are unlikely to succeed.
Testing was also used as a lever to change teaching methods and to tie teachers to the new national curriculum.
But the approach of the elections may finally have pushed a lever.
The Convention is a concrete step to use culture as a lever for development, especially in Africa, the priority region for the Organization.
Core countries such as Germany fret they will lose a lever of influence over government policies in peripheral countries by handing over equity.
And even though the seats adjust for height, they don't move, so swing a lever under the dash, and you can adjust the entire Tilton pedal box.
In the search for a lever over the Sri Lankan government's policy, many eyes have lighted on an unlikely instrument: Sri Lanka's clothing exports.
After they had won access to one computer, the attackers may have used that as a lever to pry open other parts of the network.
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"No-one in government should be contemplating standing by and watching as some schools fail in order to use it as a lever of change, " he said.
Money may be a lever: the collapse in oil prices, plus rapidly dwindling Syrian production of the stuff, confronts Mr Assad with a fast-approaching budget crisis.
Among its many innovations were engines that could, with the throw of a lever, be run either off gasoline or off hydrogen inhaled straight from the gasbag.
Some politician or national banker yanks a lever, and bingo!
The left side sports the power button, a lever for locking screen orientation and a volume rocker, while the top has the 2-megapixel front camera and 5-megapixel rear-facing shooter.
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There have been suggestions that the Government might use the funding issue as a lever to force the GAA to make Croke Park available for the Euro 2008 bid.
Mr. Lozoya also envisions Pemex acting as a lever of development for the economy, spurring the development of a stronger oil service sector and promote new industries like ethanol.
Parks are not in the favored three of police-fire-teachers, but they are close enough that politicians frequently use threats of park closures as a lever to win increases in taxation.
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Insert a foil pack of powdered insulin into a slot, prime the pump with a lever and push a trigger that releases the cloud of insulin into a clear plastic chamber.
Pentagon officials already are concerned that if the military rejects the Baker panel's suggestions, conservatives on Capitol Hill will use the study as a lever to push for legislation banning mixed-gender basic training altogether.
Plaid Cymru AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas urged the government to continue to campaign for the devolution of air passenger duty to Wales as it could be used as a lever to promote economic growth.
In addition to daily use as a "pan-focus" lens featuring a wide angle, fixed f8 aperture and shallow depth of field, it is compatible with manual focusing using a lever and capable of close-up shooting as close as 30 cm.
We decided to exclude the traditional list of "simple machines, " which includes the lever, pulley, wheel and wedge, since most other tools employ some form of simple machine--a hammer is basically a lever, and an axe is essentially a wedge.
It has a simple-to-move foot bar that lifts and clicks into place to reduce transition time between exercises, patent-pending collars on the springs to make them easier to grip when changing settings and a rope system that lets you adjust length with the pull of a lever.
Electrodes attached to the brain of a host "encoder" rat in Brazil processed the motor-oriented mental activity for a desired behavior, such as pressing a lever on cue, and converted it into a signal that was then received by a "decoder" rat as far away as Duke's US campus.
Personally, I have my eye on an even smaller jet, the rumored single-engine, four-seat pocket-rocket from Cirrus Design. (If the one engine fails, pull a lever and a parachute will float you and the plane to a soft landing.) One of the two brothers who founded Cirrus told me the Cirrus jet would go 300 knots, or 345 miles per hour.
Of the 229 who responded, 60% said they liked a shift lever in the console, and another 15% said they preferred a traditional shift lever on the steering column.
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We tried to move the brake lever a little bit down and we're now looking at the possibility of making a bigger brake lever to see if this is better for me.
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After all, the piano is such a welter of machinery: Push a key and before you hear a note, a small lever pushes against an intermediate lever, which pushes a jack, which pushes a roller, which pushes a hammer toward the strings.
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