Sentence examples for carried clout from inspiring English sources

When applying for jobs, she says, the pedigree carried clout.

But his opinions still carry clout.

The Fed's announcement carries clout because of the size.

It also carries clout: Dmitri Medvedev, when he was president, appeared on it.

Mr. Lynch, the S.E.C.'s enforcement director in the 1980s, carries clout on Wall Street and in Washington.

With the support of the leader of the EU's largest and richest member state, a commission president carries clout.

What's more, it comes from a panel assembled by the Investment Association, a body that carries clout because its members manage £5.5tn in assets.

Now the dean of the New York delegation, Mr. Rangel is one of the most powerful members of Congress and carries clout far beyond Harlem.

Many countries in the non-aligned movement (NAM), a cold war grouping which still carries clout in these negotiations, sided with Iran in lambasting the US and other established nuclear powers.

For the rest of us, including those who run the world now, there will be some loss because for us a print paper can still carry clout and drama, especially if read in the morning.

Speeches by the non-aligned movement, a bloc of more than 100 states which carries clout at the NPT conference, and by Brazil, echoed many of Ahmadinejad's themes, emphasising disappointment with the disarmament efforts of the established weapons powers.