Sentence examples for clout to impose from inspiring English sources
More likely, they show almost the opposite: that China's foreign-policy chiefs lack the clout to impose a co-ordinated, calibrated response to coincidental provocations.
Southern European politicians say Germany is selfishly wielding its clout to impose austerity policies that will wreck their part of Europe in order to protect German taxpayers.Others are worried that Germany is being too passive.
Without either a federal power center or an imminent Presidential election — without a President, a Speaker of the House, a Senate Majority Leader, or a Presidential nominee — no institutional instrument or leader has the clout to impose a consensus.
Many Democratic officials still grumble privately that she has not developed the clout to impose real discipline on the famously unruly party, and their mutterings demonstrate that she still has problems being taken seriously by the party's mostly male old guard.
This convocation requires real heft and clout to impose some rough plan of action.
We argue that by being the largest funder in the Health Basket Fund, the World Bank had more bargaining power and clout to impose its worldview.
A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, told The Economist this week that "our problem is with the United States, and we do not see a role for any other country".Yet the movement craves international respectability and understands it lacks the military clout simply to impose its rule on Afghanistan, even after 2014.
Don't even think about using your growing economic and military clout to just impose your claims in border disputes and over oil-rich islands in the South China Sea.
Instead it has retained a "high representative" who has, in theory, wide political and economic powers, but who lacks the clout on the ground to impose them.
Even with people with considerable political clout find it difficult to impose accountability on police who engage in abusive violence against them.
As a consequence, he lacks the clout and possibly the will to impose his agenda on UMNO.
