Sentence examples for clout made from inspiring English sources

Her loss of clout made no difference to her esteem.

Their ideas and, not least, their financial clout made them so popular that they were joined by many parties and organisations.

That extra bit of clout made it easier for thousands of party loyalists to crowd voting stations; intimidate other voters; vote freely and often, and in as many polling stations as they wished; and to also tamper with the ballots.

"Whether you thought good or ill of Mr. Velez, you had to concede that his clout made Puerto Ricans impossible to ignore," said Angelo Falcón, senior policy executive at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.

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And Smith's understanding of both the law and the group's social media clout, made him a good person to work for Paul Nehlen.

According to Amar, the election that cost Specter so much of his clout makes it more likely that his legal position will ultimately be vindicated on habeas corpus.

China's clout makes a mockery of two guiding tenets of its charm offensive: relations on the basis of equality; and non-interference.That calls for a new diplomacy.

Even so, Mr. Bo's popularity and clout makes disposing of his case an "extremely dangerous" matter for party leaders, said Cheng Li, a scholar of the Chinese leadership at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

Crossovers from anywhere else were equally scarce, with no sign of an Intouchables-style foreign-language ambush on the global mainstream, and Studio Ghibli's brand clout making it the one predictable fixture: Goro Miyazaki's From Up on Poppy Hill did a respectable global run ($56m) and his dad's swansong, The Wind Rises, is certain – on the back on $119m in Japan – to surpass it next year.

Taiwan-based Want Want Holdings, whose formidable brand and distribution clout makes it the king of the rice cracker business in China, says it admires Lay's success so much it would be happy to partner with a foreign potato-chip maker willing to enter the market.