Sentence examples for clout and not from inspiring English sources

It jeopardises the WTO, without which trade disputes might be settled by clout and not the law.

In the cold war Western strategists probably spent too much time worrying about the Soviet Union's military clout, and not enough analysing its commercial frailties.

Hervé Morin, the French defence minister, says Europe must have military clout, and not be "the civilian branch of NATO .NATO and the EU are, in many ways, two limbs of the same body.

But Kausik said he welcomed the chance to interact with what he hopes becomes an "agency with real resources and clout" and not just "an empty-throne czarship".

Their parents do not have much political clout, and may not even vote.

Mobile parks with rides that can be moved, like carnivals and state fairs, have less clout and are not exempted from federal regulation.

In the short term, it gives him a minor PR problem, since he has always maintained, against all available evidence, that he has no political clout, and should not therefore be described as a journalist.

And they have been sharply criticized by some economists, who assert that such incentives mainly benefit established companies with lobbying clout and are not very effective in creating new jobs.

A 2004 report, aired just before the presidential election on the weekly news magazine show 60 Minutes Wednesday, claimed that, as a young man, George W Bush had received preferential treatment during the Vietnam war because of his father's clout, and did not fulfil the terms of his military service.

These companies can help change the conversation -- they have significant clout and reach, not just in Washington, but also through their extensive employee networks (millions of people), supply chains (hundreds of billions of purchasing), and marketing and social media machines (millions of tweeters).

FulBe pastoralists, who have little political clout and who are not sufficiently organized to be adequately represented in local and national policy forums, are the losers of policies based on the old controversial discourse that was above all aimed at controlling them in space, and by immobilizing them in space, immobilizing them in time.