Sentence examples for clout available from inspiring English sources
But as no president before or since, Carter both understood the potential clout available to anyone who had held the office, and possessed the energy and determination to exploit it.
The ideas and advice were freely available; the clout to get them adopted abroad, and in the end at home, was not.
Either way, the controversy will hold up 3G telephony for years, which will carry its own costs, both in the services available to consumers and in the clout of America's high-tech industry.
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.
But both are expanding where they can, snapping up small and medium-sized producers as they become available.More consolidation would certainly give steel firms extra clout when negotiating ore and coke prices.
That suggests that the big retailers have more clout than before and can extract a greater share of the available profits.Lack of transparency makes it difficult to say how much money changes hands, but the sums are huge.
Once again, here's another powerful group of people who used to have far more clout in society than they have now, due to education and information available to the masses.
The governor is losing clout by the day, but he still has a chance to use the political levers available to any New York governor.
Such market concentration will diminish healthy competition, providing one dominant market leader damaging clout in terms of both consumer pricing and the means with which music is made available.
The agency had argued that a cable TV operator with enough market clout could choose not to carry a cable channel, thereby causing it to fail and diminishing the diversity of programming available to consumers.
