bargaining chips

基本解释

If you know that you plan to raise additional capital, having unrestricted shares is often one of your only bargaining chips with future investors.
如果你打算进行额外融资，没有限制的股份通常是在你和未来投资者讨价还价时唯一的筹码。
In that context, the North may use the two women as bargaining chips to extract the maximum possible material and diplomatic concessions from Washington.
在这种情况下，北韩也许会利用两名女记者作为谈判筹码，从华盛顿那里获取最大程度的物质与外交让步。
Were they demonstrating the damage they could cause to American and British forces if attacked, or trying to secure bargaining chips to secure the release of Iranians captured in Iraq?
他们是在张扬若发动进攻，将带给美英军队的损失吗？抑或是试图获得讨价还价的筹码，从而换取在伊拉克被捕伊朗人的获释呢？

"He will also have to reassure the Poles and the Czechs who I think are feeling a little nervous as to whether they are deemed bargaining chips and might be traded away in some efforts with the Russians.

There is danger that such bills would be taken back into the purgatory of being bargaining chips for comprehensive reform.
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The statutory debt ceiling and the threat of default have become political bargaining chips in the debate over fiscal policy.
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