Sentence examples for clout like from inspiring English sources
That's why it is so important for people with clout, like Larry Summers, to shut up.
Unless maybe you are a retail behemoth with a lot of clout like, say, Walmart, which is discounting the iPhone and the iPad.
No matter how ridiculous this case may appear, since it's filed by a person with political clout like Mizulina, law enforcement is sure to take it seriously.
Other teams with little clout like Serbia & Montenegro and Togo also played at this time and are out of the cup".
To shoot a film in black and white on a major studio picture you needed clout, like Scorsese with Raging Bull or Spielberg with Schindler's List.
Few judges dare defy the president, so taking him to court is futile.Mindful of such precedents, investors with enough clout, like the Chinese government, have insisted on international arbitration.
A tiny elite of models who have become social media superstars wield influence and commercial clout the like of which the supermodels of the 1990s could only have dreamed of.
Now it's the small cities that aren't near big cities -- former powerhouses themselves -- that are losing political clout: places like Amarillo, Wichita Falls, San Angelo and Nacogdoches.
Or is his rise simply the result of the influence, money and clout cast like a shadow over his life by the Thin White Duke?
Long at the centre of Italian industrial and economic policymaking, Confindustria has lately lost much of its clout and, like corporate Italy itself, badly needs some of Mr Montezemolo's magic.His arrival at Confindustria marks the return of Italian industry's northern aristocracy which, having run it in its prime, lost interest in the organisation in the 1990s.
But for a small-town girl she had a lot of clout -- like being the daughter of the Roman Emperor Germanicus and later on the wife of the Emperor Claudius.
