Sentence examples for clout as much from inspiring English sources

ST. LOUIS — With their vote last week to support a moratorium on earmarks, House and Senate Republicans are taking aim at a popular target: the much-criticized system for distributing federal money that reflects politicians' clout as much as the merits of projects in their districts.

The expansion of the company reflected Mr. Sechin's political clout as much as it did any industrial strategy by the Russian leadership to form a larger national oil company for the purpose of drilling in the Arctic Ocean, in remote East Siberia and in difficult shale oil fields.

Some educators saw Mr. Klein's decision to announce the proposals now as a deliberate swipe at the principals' union, which does not have nearly the political clout as the much larger union representing city teachers.

If you want to be a part of this community that you love, I realised – this family that keeps you sane in a shitty, boring world, this million-dollar enterprise that you fund with your consumer clout, just as much as male listeners – you have to participate, with a smile, in your own disintegration.

I've got as much clout as anybody else.

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.