Sentence examples for clout most from inspiring English sources

Virtually overnight, Young secured the kind of clout most producers can only fantasise about.

Impressed by their popularity and financial clout, most lawmakers bend over backwards to accommodate them.

Because Fannie and Freddie are practically the only entities willing to buy and securitize mortgages, they have enormous clout; most lenders simply won't make a loan if Fannie or Freddie won't buy it.

Getting elected was the easy part; now's when he needs that clout most.

WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress is more effective when political "extremists" have less clout, most Americans said in a Reuters-Ipsos poll that also showed the public still has a dim view of Congress, despite a run of legislative achievements this year.

Ms. DeGeneres, heir apparent to Oprah Winfrey, has more clout than most record executives, or for that matter most record labels.

This carries more clout with most organisations, unless it is a very specialised role.

Becky Heath, chief executive of Internocracy, says the overwhelming majority of UK employers are small to medium-sized enterprises without the financial or human resourcing clout of most AGR members.

Coupled with its majority in the more important lower house, the LDP could then rule without watering down legislation for the sake of its coalition partners.The upper house actually has more clout than most people realise, through its ability to block some legislation.

An Associated Press article filed this morning calls Snow the "nominal head of the [Administration's] economic team," but says flatly he has "little of the clout that most previous Treasury secretaries have wielded, either within the administration or on Wall Street".

With more members, resources and political clout than most other immigration reform supporters, union support has become a sine qua non for any potential legislation.