Sentence examples for clout rose from inspiring English sources

Excesses Overlooked Yet he continued upward anyway, the internal enmities papered over by a Communist Party obsessed with the appearance of unity, his excesses overlooked by the family and political allies whose own clout rose with his.

For all the ideas it tosses around -- and many of them are useful and painful correctives to our rose-colored fantasies -- "Treasure Island" is too crude a movie to muster much rhetorical clout.

Clout pays off again.

"The EU has clout.

Apple has similar clout.

But they lack clout.

"He had clout.

Coreper has huge clout.

But the material has clout.

That translates into political clout.

It has enormous political clout.