Sentence examples similar to entrenched clout from inspiring English sources

This test of wills over the weekend pitted Japan's leader against one of its most entrenched and coddled interest groups, a nuclear power industry that retains enormous clout even after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.

But will his old pals from Soviet days, now entrenched as owners of much of Lithuania's main industries, have too much clout, both with him and in politics in general?

Rather, it is an entrenched official role on company works councils and in industry-wide collective bargaining, combined with a tradition of street protest, that gives the unions clout.

Special interests are entrenched.

Because they are entrenched.

Positions entrenched.

Positions have become entrenched.

So do entrenched officeholders.

Clout pays off again.

That entrenched deflation.

Ethnic mafias become entrenched.