Sentence examples for clout to avoid from inspiring English sources
Certain writers, like Mr. Overmyer, have enough clout to avoid interference.
However, the holders of America's vast external debt, particularly the Chinese, have enough clout to avoid this.
The current concentration of wealth in the United States has already become self-reinforcing: as the economist Simon Johnson has argued, the financial sector has used its lobbying clout to avoid more onerous forms of regulation.
In the December 4, 2000, issue of the magazine, Elizabeth Kolbert reported on the Hudson Falls environmental disaster, and how G.E. had used its political clout to avoid taking responsibility: Even taking into account the high costs of research, advertising, and big-name lobbyists, by the logic of the Superfund it obviously makes good sense for G.E. to fight on.
Decent visibility is a must, to avoid clouting a mototaxi and being clouted by a ten-tonne truck.
In 2009, Bearing Point advisers also saw growing evidence of how Kabul Bank's political clout was allowing it to avoid scrutiny, according to an incident recounted in the inspector general's report.
Critics had cited the stalemate as further evidence of the Italian leader's ebbing clout as the country struggled to avoid becoming the next victim of the European debt crisis.
He believes the completion of redevelopment at Ashton Gate will give them extra financial clout, while they will also hope to avoid errors made in the transfer market this summer.
In my book, I track the fortunes of IBM and Apple, both clear leaders with huge revenue and market clout who — like HP today — faced the need to change in order to avoid extinction.
Beijing clearly wants to avoid emboldening North Korea with any fantasy about China's security clout.
That's largely because Big Pharma has wielded its political influence to avoid cost controls, to ban Medicare from using its bargaining clout to negotiate lower prices, and to allow drug companies to pay the makers of generic drugs to delay their cheaper versions.
