Sentence examples for clout at a time from inspiring English sources

As the ruling coalition's spoiler-in-chief, she typifies rising regional clout at a time when the centre is weakly led.

The deal with NBCU pushed Comcast to a new level in size and clout, at a time when most media companies were slimming down to focus on what they did best.

Organizing Toyota would also bolster the U.A.W.'s diminished clout at a time when Detroit's Big Three are cutting jobs, closing factories and expecting concessions from the union in ongoing contract negotiations.

These artists have cachet in Cuba, and they also have financial clout as important attractions at a time when Cuba has come to rely on tourism as its primary industry.

They are fascinating for two reasons: first, because they reveal the split among ministers in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet; second, because they offer an insight into the Daily Mail's political clout at the time.

Congress eventually chose one site in Nevada, which lacked the political clout at the time to push it elsewhere.

He was referring to a decision in the late 1980s to instruct the Energy Department not to choose the best of three sites then under evaluation but simply to see if Yucca was suitable, largely based on Nevada's limited political clout at the time.

For small investors lacking the time, discipline, guts -- and clout -- to follow his method at a time like this, one approach is either to buy what he buys or else buy a piece of his corporate alter-ego, Berkshire Hathaway.

Yet at the moment Mr. Gibson is viewed not as an artist flouting convention and mainstream Hollywood orthodoxies, but as a lobbyist for the fundamentalist religious movement in the United States at a time when its clout is unmistakably on the rise.

That twist must have something to do with Apple's huge buying clout — when you order five million of some component at a time, you can usually persuade the vendor to cut you a deal.

Hence its appeal, especially at a time when unions are losing their clout.