Sentence examples for Spending clout from inspiring English sources

And she knew it was just a matter of time before women craved treatment from major corporations commensurate with their spending clout.

Today, the still-expanding ranks of American teen-agers (31 million and counting) are collectively flush with boom-times spending clout, to the tune of $140 billion a year.

And they had already spent considerable clout and resources trying to get him out of prison.

"The political climate over the last few years has forced us to spend whatever clout we have on preventing pension sweeteners that Albany passes and that we pay for instead of pushing for real pension reform," Mr. Skyler said.

Sh should be willing to spend her clout and serve as charismatic evangelist to other internal stakeholders.

On Capitol Hill, he said, "spending cut hawks" have more clout than defense hawks.

They are also nervous about the spending power and energy clout of a resurgent Russia.

LeWitts Go West The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has the spending power and the clout to buy rare examples of art directly from living artists.

But the same arguments also apply to other industries from supermarkets to banks, and from software providers to metal bashers where big companies use their greater clout and spending power to undermine and crush smaller competitors.

The Chamber wields its economic clout aggressively, spending more on lobbying than any other interest group in the country.

It was in search of just such a miracle that Landrieu's hyperdrive stunt to will a Keystone bill over the goal line was born, in order to give Landrieu some slight opportunity to demonstrate to voters that she had some sort of clout after spending the bulk of her time presiding over the Energy and National Resources Committee as a virtual nonentity.