Sentence examples for acquired clout from inspiring English sources

On my last morning in Dublin, O'Faolain uses some of her newly acquired clout to get a dusty employee of the National Library of Ireland to give us an advance peek at the Joyce manuscript recently purchased for $1.5 million at Christie's.

The office has acquired greater clout over the years, but that characterisation is still not too far wrong.

He also has powers over cultural matters and economic development; in 2006 he acquired more clout over housing, planning, the environment, and learning and skills.

With the parliament largely emasculated, television under state control, the press muzzled and once-autonomous regions shackled, the presidency has acquired enormous clout.

It was through unions that American workers acquired the clout to create the world's first middle-class majority--an epochal achievement that has been all but undone by the demise of an organized workforce.

This is Accor's attempt to acquire enough clout to compete with them.

Even if the result is less dramatic, there is every chance that the SNP is about to acquire unprecedented clout over London.

Revisions are expected.However, there is little likelihood that trade unions in China will acquire the clout that some of their counterparts exercise in Western countries.