Sentence examples for clout must be from inspiring English sources

When roadblocks appear, a public official with visibility and clout must be able to call attention to the issue and have it resolved.

Yet everyone is agreed that if the council's decisions are to have greater political clout, they must be given greater legitimacy.Now the panel of wise men and women, among them Brent Scowcroft, President George Bush senior's national security adviser, and Yevgeny Primakov, a former Russian prime minister, believes it may have hit on a winning formula.

"The Lib Dems may not be a serious party," he said, "but their increased clout and Labour's decline mean they must be taken seriously".

Whatever the future leaders lack in legitimacy must be made up in personal clout.

"These people must be plenty nervous," said Dawn Mello, a retail consultant who wielded considerable clout in the 1970s and '80s as the president and fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman.

On the other hand, most credit must be given to incoming Speaker Paul Ryan who used his new leadership clout to advance policy making as opposed to position taking.

Hervé Morin, the French defence minister, says Europe must have military clout, and not be "the civilian branch of NATO .NATO and the EU are, in many ways, two limbs of the same body.

His clout could be decisive.

Clout can be defined in many ways.

The immediate aim for the Chubais-Nemtsov pair must surely be to dislodge Mr Berezovsky from his dominance of ORT, Russia's biggest television channel and the source of much of his clout.

Their clout, however, is colossal.