Sentence examples for clout lead from inspiring English sources

So there you are: unions with clout lead to better pay and sounder economies.

The banks' growing political clout led to the rule changes that helped create the financial crisis.

As Mr. Lorre remembers it, their clout led CBS to put "Cybill" on the air, where it remained for 87 episodes.

In Maguire's mind, his trajectory seems a matter of simple deduction: A (a blockbuster like "Spider-Man") leads to B (exposure) leads to C (greater clout) leads to D (whatever he wants).

Tarantino's clout led Phil Hoad of The Guardian to call Tarantino the world's most influential director.

Another thing, what if increasing Republican clout leads to more corporate tax breaks, fewer public services and fewer opportunities for the poor and middle class to succeed?

Has Mr Meyer the support, organisation and clout to lead a new break-away party?

That kind of clout would lead to direct political and economic benefits: China would win access to commodities, profit-making opportunities for its companies and an increase in its international political leverage vis-à-vis the United States and Europe.

That will give them political clout and lead to questions about the subventions which more traditional forms of power generation enjoy (coal production, for example, is heavily subsidised in parts of Europe).Fossil-fuel-powered electricity will not be pushed aside quickly.

China has the political and economic clout to lead.

(The deeper into the retirement of the Baby Boomers we get, the more we risk getting stuck in a fiscal version of the low-fertility trap that Jonathan Last describes here, in which the increasing political clout of retirees leads to tax increases that disadvantage the working-age population that's supposed to be paying for the retirement system in the first place, and so on in a vicious cycle).