Sentence examples for clout is less from inspiring English sources

His turnstile clout is less, even, than the Welshman who has come to his country.

His actual clout is less than many claim (ever the populist, his tabloids tend to follow, not lead, opinion polls) but still plainly large.

"What is coming next is a generation whose ideological positions are more virulent and who, owing to the removal of older figures with clout, are less likely to be amenable to restraining their actions," Leah Farrall, a former senior counterterrorism intelligence analyst with the Australian Federal Police, said on her blog this week.

But communities without such clout are less able to push back against the encroachments of police power.

"While our clout is certainly less than it was during the bubble era, our clout-to-effort ratio remains higher than any other sector I know," he said.

Medicaid, which serves poorer people, is paid for partly by state governments, and the poor have less political clout than the elderly, so it is less well financed.

What is less obvious is the precise effect China's clout will have on other countries' policy settings.

The governor's proposal to improve oversight of nonprofit groups caring for vulnerable people is less fraught, because the nonprofit sector has less clout in Albany, and most of its employees are not unionized.