Sentence examples for as clout from inspiring English sources

But to get Uruguay working for the future rather than dwelling in the past will require courage as well as clout.

The evening ends with as much clout as a game of spin the bottle.

Besides, in Democratic circles in New York, he has as much clout as Clinton does.

Other writers are less circumspect, envisioning a Muslim-majority "Eurabia" in which Shariah has as much clout as liberalism.

We know that Curly is innocent, damn it; and the whole brouhaha has as much clout as a popgun.

While she doesn't have as much clout as Oprah Winfrey, authors tell Ms. Pearl that her recommendations cause book sales to jump.

In 2015 the electorate are going to need help from experts, and Johnson at the IFS and the new Flanders will probably have as much clout as anyone.

But no school has as much clout as Central Academy, the only arts college directly supported by the central government in Beijing.

It feels like an experiment from a more innocent time, back when clubs did not wield quite as much clout.

If implemented, the theory runs, these proposals would transform East Asia into a cohesive economic block, with as much clout as Europe or America.In fact, some of these schemes are already in motion.

A local academic, Andrew Aeria, in a report submitted to the Sarawak parliament last year, underlined how the 16,000-odd voters in one rural constituency had as much clout as 67,000 voters in a semiurban one.