Sentence examples for clout to go from inspiring English sources

That long tenure gives her more clout to go against the political grain.

That settlement led to predictions, both dire and hopeful, that the trial bar would use its newfound financial clout to go after a host of other industries, transforming the face of American capitalism.

It is not clear, though, that they have the clout to go far on the national stage.Analysts say that Mr Noda's controversial push to double the consumption, or sales, tax contributed more than anything to the rightward shift.

Lee said the biggest funds had the money and clout to go straight to companies for information, while others could put pressure on fund managers to require greater disclosure.

And it reminds everyone working in today's digital, atomised world of journalism that sometimes only big, old-fashioned newspapers have the collective, institutional weight and clout to go up against wholesale wrongdoing.

As Ellie Rowsell stage dives to Giant Peach, bassist Theo Ellis walks through the drum kit and a buzzing crowd heads off to frug until midnight to Jagwar Ma, Margate gains the cultural clout to go with its seaweed perfume emporiums and clothes shops for dogs.

Blacks and JJB both went bust but Ashley remains willing to use his financial clout to get results.

You have to have some seniority and some political clout to move into it [interdisciplinary research].

What's more, Greece would be surrendering a lot of its negotiating clout if, in the future, it needed to go back to the bailout bargaining table.

FDI flows tend to go hand in hand with economic clout.

The EU's foreign-policy clout is weakened because its big member states still tend to go their own way, most spectacularly over Iraq.