Sentence examples for clout system from inspiring English sources

Hurd told commission members that she opposed the clout system but didn't feel that she had many options for fighting it.

Back when he was the king of cable, he had enormous clout, controlling cable systems and cable programming through his control of TCI.

Without the US the other G7 nations lack as much clout to make the system work.

Perhaps now you could turn your editorial clout to the same system gone mad in the United States.

Disqus, a comments platform for bloggers, has experimented with allowing users to rate one another's comments and feed those ratings into a global reputation system called Clout.

Film-makers with clout could circumvent the system, but when most directors are straight, white men making films about straight, white men, we don't tend to get a very diverse lineup of films".

The murder rate stands at around 6,000 per year, in a country of 14m inhabitants.Indeed, many of the attacks this year are attributed to organised criminals intent on influencing elections and thereby gaining clout within the political system, at the local and national levels.

Rates will rise 7% in Northern California, where prices have historically been higher because of the market clout of big health systems.

Insurers and health-policy experts cite the growth of expensive specialty drugs, the negotiating clout of big hospital systems, an aging population and the high rate of chronic disease.

These groups have a huge investment in the system and serious clout with the undergraduates.

No one in the transit system has less clout than people who ride the buses of the suburbs, so no one got whacked as hard.