Sentence examples for clout ebb from inspiring English sources

Presidents inevitably see their clout ebb as successors' elections near, says Tom Daschle, who led Senate Democrats from 1995 to 2005.

Critics had cited the stalemate as further evidence of the Italian leader's ebbing clout as the country struggled to avoid becoming the next victim of the European debt crisis.

Wariness may begin to ebb.

The waves ebb.

They ebb and flow.

This tide will not ebb.

While Obama-hatred remains a staple of the right, the ebbing of his political clout may have diminished him as a catchall for America's roiling, inchoate rage.

Nowhere else in Shanghai are the ebbing symbols of Western hegemony so deftly contrasted to monuments of China's growing clout.

Wonder ebbs.

It ebbs and flows.

The sap ebbed.