Sentence examples for clout to support from inspiring English sources

But more and more, China is leveraging its economic clout to support its political preferences.

They've gone all-in on using their clout to support independent films.

He undermined his own publicity campaigns, and used his commercial clout to support lesser-known bands; he was planning to start his own label, Exploitation Records, and distribute the records himself while he was on tour.

The Bank said two-thirds of global poverty reduction in the last half-century had been the result of faster growth, and that explained why it was using its financial clout to support policies in developing countries that led to a more rapid expansion in output.

They can use their economic clout to support businesses that protect their own employees' health through safety and environmental programs.

"Working with L.A. [schools] has completely changed the way we purchase and produce". In a groundbreaking effort, the nation's second-largest school district is using its enormous purchasing clout to support local farmers and businesses.

The presidential election showed a number of professional athletes who discovered that they could use their clout and visibility to support a candidate and not lose endorsements.

It is being succeeded by evangelicals who are using their growing clout to skewer China and North Korea, to support Israel, to fight sexual trafficking in Eastern Europe and slavery in Sudan, and, increasingly, to battle AIDS in Africa.

Wouldn't we have more clout banding together not only to support research into prevention, detection and cure but also to counter the exorbitant expense of treatment?

(It may help that he was working in Sacramento during many of City Hall's fraught recent decisions). Chinatown, whose political clout helped Lee win, appears to support Breed.

First, she wants the Olympic sponsors to use their marketing clout to demonstrate support for gay equity.