Sentence examples for clout affecting from inspiring English sources

In recent weeks Starbucks, Google and Amazon have also found themselves at the sharper end of public debate with regards to the amount of tax they pay in this country, and customers have exercised their clout, affecting profits.

But instead, he used that clout to produce an affecting documentary that featured him on-camera interviewing wounded veterans of the war in Iraq.

But a president's approval rating is one indication of his political clout and can affect his ability to dictate the agenda in Washington.

Moreover, the police in China's authoritarian bureaucracy are rarely rewarded for responding to crimes affecting people who do not have much political clout.

"We had six or eight people, we were working out of our cars, we didn't have our own binoculars, you didn't have your own anything," he said, explaining that the Asian longhorned beetle "doesn't have the same kind of political clout as something that affects citrus or wheat," crops whose damage has immediate and obvious economic consequences.

Q: Does that actually affect your negotiating clout when you are in a room with Francis Maude?

How Latinos identify themselves — and how the census counts them — affects the political clout of Latinos and other minority groups.

Downgrades could affect the Rolls' negotiating clout when signing 20-year service contracts on engines.

It won't affect each member's clout in Congress, or in the statehouse, or on the State Board of Education, where every vote counts the same.

It has affected to render its political clout materially superior to the real civil power of the people it serves despite offering the illusion that free elections will change current conditions.

Bargaining-table clout is crucial for unions, since it directly affects the wages their members take home every month.