Sentence examples for clout by from inspiring English sources

But second, newspapers wield clout by weight of numbers.

We Americans cannot offset China's growing political and economic clout by turning inward.

Countries on the rise amass wealth and geopolitical clout by refusing to bear those costs.

Or should it settle for reducing the executives' clout by merely scrapping sweetheart deals?

There was also the possibility that General Zinni would be given greater clout by Washington.

He also used Mr. Ali's clout by listing him on Lansana's immigration application last year.

As any eight-year-old who's just been clouted by his sister with a Wiffle bat will tell you, if you have to ask, the apology will be worthless.

Lately it has been building an offshore wind farm in Sweden and digging Canadian oil rigs into the sea bed—"so they don't get clouted by icebergs", says the managing director, Robert Goodden".We can't work fast enough," says Mr Goodden.

He's obviously been thinking about Stuart Broad who, of course, fits both bills, having been clouted by Yuvraj Singh in the inaugural tournament South Africa in 2007 and bowling the last over when the Netherlands squeezed past England in the opening game of the 2009 tournament.

Decent visibility is a must, to avoid clouting a mototaxi and being clouted by a ten-tonne truck.

Yet he is surely right that '71 marked a step change in pop history, one driven as much by the industry's commercial clout as by its music, fecund and memorable though that often was.