Sentence examples for clout as a from inspiring English sources

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

Whether enthusiasts of this Facebook page wield clout as a voting bloc is beside the point.

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

So far, Beijing has used its clout as a major foreign investor and the world's biggest importer of raw materials to mollify or intimidate its potential critics.

Samsung, whose revenues are twice Nokia's, has half its clout as a share of GDP: South Korea's economy is more diversified.

Moreover, in a trade where chutzpah and charisma carry as much clout as a left hook, he is a not-unwelcome addition to boxing's thinning crowd-pulling club.

But beyond the smiles and the commercial embrace, ties between nuclear-armed India and China are marked by competition for energy and regional clout as well as a festering border dispute that led to a brief war 52 years ago.

The debt market suffered a trauma recently when the leading ratings agencies downgraded General Motors and Ford Motor Co. Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch wield tremendous clout, as is ably detailed in a just-published book, Timothy J. Sinclair's The New Masters of Capital.

"They are very much aware of his clout as well".

In Asia, despite historical misgivings about Chinese power, the country's growing clout as an engine of regional economic growth is helping China strengthen its diplomatic influence.

12 Years a Slave, though, seems to have gone beyond this caucus, probably because of its clout as an Important Historical Document and its Oscars success.