Sentence examples for clout of his from inspiring English sources

"But he does not have the clout of his father".

Now as county executive, he is using the clout of his office to make his vision reality.

The reformers won this early round: Rauhi Fattouh, the speaker, who has no clout of his own, has already been made acting president.

Moreover, as a co-founder of the AK party, he has enough political clout of his own to stand up to Mr Erdogan.

It does not help that the ageing Mr Singh has little clout of his own: he reports to the ailing Sonia Gandhi, the dynastic chief of Congress.

J. Bruce Mouw, a former F.B.I. agent who supervised the investigation of the Gambino family for many years, said that while the Gotti name had symbolic importance in the Mafia, Peter Gotti never had the clout of his deceased brother.

Still, he is widely perceived as having extra clout because of his brother.

But he also seemed conscious that Mr. Turner would have limited clout because of his status as a freshman lawmaker.

While Skrillex may not have the chart clout of, say, Calvin Harris – his debut studio album, Recess, was slipped out last month without ceremony or advance notice, and he has previously given away his music – he is one of the figureheads of EDM, sending stadium-sized crowds wild.

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.

"Really it's a question of does the president of the United States have enough clout with members of his own political party to produce enough votes to get this bill debated and ultimately passed," Texas senator John Cornyn, the No 2 Republican in the Senate, told reporters on Capitol Hill.