Sentence examples for clout behind from inspiring English sources

The Mirassous, with Gallo's massive clout behind them, will turn up everywhere.

And he promised to put his cash and clout behind any senator who backed the legislation "no matter where they stand on any other issue".

But with Big Blue's clout behind it, Linux may become just the competitor to Windows 2000 that Bill Gates did not want.

But critics note that Mr. Bush declined to put his clout behind gun-show background checks in Texas even though he is now supporting them nationally.

But sometimes pile-ups are unavoidable if there is sufficient momentum and clout behind competing movie developments with the same idea.

The big Nevada casinos have put their money and considerable lobbying clout behind the bill to try to crush a competitive threat to their billion-dollar desert palaces.

If Cooley becomes attorney general, he'd have more clout to put behind a 2012 reform initiative, if he chose to.

While Syncplicity was not a major player at the time, the feeling was that with the clout of EMC behind it, it could grow into a more significant business, or at least act as a catalyst for other divisions to make bigger sales.

That prospect has now been clouded by Mr. Jiang's last-minute maneuvering to retain the kind of behind-the-scenes clout Deng Xiaoping wielded long after his official retirement.

It's like the pledges that made the anti-tax activist Grover Norquist famous, but with more promises and with the clout of a governor behind it.

With the clout of the BBC behind him, Fry confronted two of the country's chief hate-mongers, Pastor Solomon Male and government minister Simon Lokodo.