Sentence examples for clout in order to from inspiring English sources

But the settlement gives Glaser's company both cash and improved marketing clout in order to keep its current business alive.

Promotion-minded stars and studios have put their clout behind the awards in order to court Oscar nominations, for which balloting closes Feb. 1. "Sense and Sensibility," which had received six nominations, also won a Golden Globe for best screenplay.

Presidential candidates have used these PACs to contribute money to elected officials in order to gain clout and possibly win endorsements.

In the late 1980's, they helped organize the Pacific Leadership Council in order to gain more clout for Asian-Americans in California.

While this might be helpful in order to get political clout for the needs of future Olympians, the danger this poses is that partisanship might easily slip in and influence decisions that should be made strictly on professional basis.

The broadcast ended with a complicated explanation of how Russian special services purportedly had to use offshore accounts in 2008 to buy a Russian telecom company that U.S. investors had been desperate to purchase in order to gain more clout in Russian media — and counter the Kremlin's messages.

"There's this sense that we have to be big in order to have the clout to negotiate" (site B).

The EU could tap sovereign wealth funds from Asia and the Gulf in order to boost the financial clout of its main vehicle to bailout eurozone countries suffering debt distress and prevent contagion spreading, it is understood.

While both teachers' unions have been growing, most mergers have involved unions with declining memberships that agreed to combine in order to increase their flagging clout and to create economies of scale in representing their members.

"For luxury independent hotels, properties can affiliate with a reservation system like Relais & Chateaux or Leading Hotels of the World in order to gain some distribution clout". That is what Bortolotto has done for her three Venetian hotels.

Indeed, their clout will be essential in the coming days in order to transform moral outrage into common-sense legislation.