Sentence examples for clout to control from inspiring English sources

India has enough clout to control the position.

If the conflict has demonstrated anything, it is that neither erstwhile superpower has the clout to control its clients on the ground.

Even with more delegates picked  through caucuses and state conventions, it's not clear that Republican leaders have the kind of clout to control delegates like they did in the 1930s, '40s, or '50s.

Although he set up the dynastic guidelines so his son would succeed him, it is unclear whether the second generation has the clout needed to control the competing security and intelligence agencies.

Leading government officials began to set up independent companies with Western-style management, simply using their political clout to grab control of assets whose real ownership, with the collapse of the Soviet state, was in limbo.

Mouawad unwittingly telegraphs the producers new strategy when he opines that OPEC's clout will be reinforced in coming years" because the cartel "is poised to control more than 50percentt of the oil market".

It could also complicate efforts to control health care costs: with reduced competition, the hospitals would gain clout in negotiating rates with insurance companies, potentially driving up costs for employers and employees across the region.

The league soon lost its political clout, but the North Dakota Farmers Union (founded in 1927) launched a strong cooperative movement to control the selling of grain and the purchase of farm supplies.

But in other states, pro-gun Republicans will have to use their new clout to block gun control measures.

Mr. Murdoch has used his clout to try to curb the powers of media regulatory bodies and expand his control of the dominant pay-television network British Sky Broadcasting, which the British government is still weighing.

Videos could be made cheaply by outsiders like Toni Basil (her "Over My Head" will be shown), but the opposite also existed: a big budget and a band with enough clout to have complete editorial control (Talking Heads's "Road to Nowhere," also in the program).