Sentence examples for clout to issue from inspiring English sources

As the world's biggest bookstore, Amazon could employ some people with clout to issue a literary canon, ex cathedra, but it has refrained.

The Gates Foundation, which is co-sponsoring the event, is bringing its enormous financial clout to the issue with the launch of a multi-billion dollar family planning initiative intended to bring services to 120 million more women in poor countries by 2020.

What's more, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner ensured the committee won't have much clout by forcing Democrats to agree to a provision that allows the committee to issue subpoenas only if one of its Republican appointees votes to issue one.

Q: Is it fair to say that the failure to meet the July 2009 deadline to issue the scientific integrity guidelines for agencies is a measure of your limited clout?

Now he's using his media clout to highlight an issue of both ecological and personal significance.

What we hope to do is to bring together this collective wisdom, to learn from each other what works - and what doesn't - and to use our collective clout to bring this issue to global attention.

But he questioned whether the department had enough clout to tackle wider issues involved in food waste and poor diet.

Devolution of power and budgets to neighbourhoods is one of its fundamentals, while the Mayor would use his clout to tackle big issues and big players.

Mr McDonald said: "This is a body that will come together with much greater clout to deal with issues of transport infrastructure, economic development and skills".

Together they would have the legitimacy and the clout to tackle almost any issue.

Forming a company called Beaver Films with actor-writer Bryan Forbes, Attenborough used his clout to set up the issue-drama The Angry Silence.