Sentence examples for In clout from inspiring English sources

Washington sometimes cedes in clout if not in cash.

Mr Marcinkiewicz's office is strikingly underpowered, both in people and in clout.

What gains there have been, he thinks, come from the World Bank-financed repairs, not any increase in clout for weaker farmers.

We are close-knit, and we lack the stature — both in clout and actual body size — of some of our opponents.

The company he now controls, USA Networks, ranks far behind top old-media players like Disney in clout, size, and profitability.

As retailers have grown in clout, they have also squeezed the consumer-goods firms for more "trade spending"—the money the likes of P&G must stump up for in-store promotion, displays and eye-level shelf space.

Each country's quota determines how much it pays in, its clout in the organisation and how much it can borrow if it gets into trouble.

But in numbers and in political clout, the J Street contingent was dwarfed by Aipac's annual conference three weeks ago.

North Korea continues testing because the greater its expertise, the greater the value in domestic propaganda and in foreign clout.

Making the discriminatory experience central might have been useful in building political clout in the 1960s.

Whatever the future leaders lack in legitimacy must be made up in personal clout.