Sentence examples for clout part from inspiring English sources

There are perhaps only two other Palestinian leaders -- Mahmoud Darwish and Shafik al-Hout -- who wield his intellectual and moral clout, part of a vanishing class of highly educated, urbane and courtly leaders whose voices defy religious and ideological extremism.

He and other militants were gaining clout, in part because they were delivering social services and physical security that the Coalition was not.

It is to contain and constrain what the lesser powers see as excessive clout on the part of No. 1.

That case is based on jobs, trade, investment and employment rights, as well as the shared values and increased clout of being part of a single market of 500m people.

For now, Ms. McCarthy has enough clout to spend part of her summer break making "Tammy," a comedy she wrote with Mr. Falcone and which he is directing, in which she plays an irresponsible woman on a road trip with her tough-as-nails grandmother (Susan Sarandon).

"We have got new powers on the world stage - Brazil, China, India - and we get more clout by being part of the world's biggest economy".

The Kurds have played king-maker in Iraq since the 2003 invasion and will likely retain enough clout to be part of a ruling alliance with another faction.

A good part of its clout comes from Washington dinners, gala "shootouts" and junkets with lawmakers.

Though they have lost some of their military clout, they remain a key part of the Shias' new order.

The individual firms benefit from cost savings in areas such as technology and from the marketing clout that comes from being part of a bigger group.

With his newfound clout, he can play a part he always wanted, Charlie Castle, the movie star with a dark secret, in Clifford Odets's "Big Knife," which opens April 16.