Sentence examples for clout to stop from inspiring English sources

Maybe they've got the clout to stop TSA bullying.

Some lawmakers and lobbyists predict that the Racing Association has the political clout to stop the sale if the mayor chooses an out-of-state bidder.

The commission has a relatively small budget and no authority to compel member states to shell out extra cash or cut taxes (and, to its regret, little clout to stop them from running up budget deficits).

In that (improbable) case, no one in the conservative camp would have the clout to stop the party boss going for the top government job too.In the longer run, though, Mr Schäuble's chances of running for the chancellorship are far less sure.

But this may soon change or so intends India's new civil-aviation minister, Praful Patel, a successful businessman.For years Air India and Indian Airlines, the state-owned and highly bureaucratic international and domestic carriers, have used political clout to stop foreign airlines expanding flights to India and to curb the growth of private-sector internal operators.

If it remembers Mr. Mbeki at all, it will be for appointing a health minister who favored garlic and beet root as treatment for South Africa's more than five million citizens infected with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, and for his stubborn refusal to use South Africa's economic and political clout to stop Zimbabwe's horrors.

The Department of Homeland Security brings bureaucratic clout to the struggle to stop terrorism.

Yet few people who have mainstream media granted clout are telling them to stop.

We have to be vigilant in our efforts to prevent such laws from taking hold, and we ought to use our nation's considerable political clout to pressure others to stop making and enforcing laws that remove the most important and underappreciated component of religious freedom--freedom from religion.

But the real question is: Is there enough political will and clout?" If the parties wanted to stop fighting, in other words, they could negotiate a resolution.

"They have enormous bargaining clout because they have the power to stop all those goods".