Sentence examples for clout effectively from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hatoyama is wresting power from every corner of the bureaucracy but he has done nothing with his party's new found clout, effectively causing the entire government to grind to a halt.

While gays and lesbians have had some successes in recent years in securing antidiscrimination legislation (and even marriage equality) in some parts of the nation, those patchwork results do not alter the fact that as a group gay men and lesbians lack sufficient political clout effectively to protect themselves in the rough-and-tumble of the political process.

American power, backed by its allies in Iraq, achieved an important milestone as European leaders were still struggling to come together as a distinct and independent continental power, one that aspires to marshal economic and military clout as effectively as Washington.

Yet he may still lack the clout to govern effectively in such a divided country.

Voters in that kind of system are at a disadvantage when there aren't reliable, organized groups representing them that have clout and can effectively communicate to them what is going on".

Some economists have voiced fears that insurers with small market shares will not have the clout to bargain effectively with enormous hospital systems, which are being encouraged to consolidate even further into Accountable Care Organizations that take charge of patients' entire health needs.

The team's economic clout allows it to effectively set the game's agenda, and when Steinbrenner Sr. was in his activist, win-now-and-at-all-costs mode, everyone knew exactly what to expect: regular raids on the team's farm system, outrageous free-agent contracts and a lot of bloviating.

Thus, the counterweight of labor to the ever-increasing political clout of big business was effectively lost.

Because, as he has made clear, he wishes to counterbalance others on the other side of the political spectrum who have effectively leveraged enhanced clout.

Secondly, he would wield the moral clout that comes from having already effectively won the leadership in many people's eyes.

Citizens United should get credit for being the mechanism by which forces against workers effectively killed their limited clout by executing a plutocratic pincer maneuver.