Sentence examples for executive clout from inspiring English sources

His executive clout is limited.

She has also tried to retool her image with advertisements emphasizing a jobs program and her humble roots and personal struggles rather than her executive clout.

Shields, sixth in the sector and sixty-sixth overall, added executive clout to the social networking site, guiding it through negotiations with prospective buyers until AOL bit - and is now the newly installed president of the Time Warner web subsidiary's People Networks.

While Young has brought a lot of music credibility and profile to the company, what Hamm brought was some executive clout for his track record in the technology business.

The party out of power is empowered by diminishing executive clout.

But the most telling historic parallel would be the rise and fall of the Whig Party, established in 1834 as a reaction to the growing executive clout of Andrew Jackson.

Or should it settle for reducing the executives' clout by merely scrapping sweetheart deals?

As any changes would need a two-thirds majority at the union's annual general meeting, the most radical recommendations, involving slimming down the council and giving executives more clout, will probably be rejected, leaving Robertson to decide whether to threaten to withdraw government financial support for the 2015 World Cup, which England is hosting.

The Knesset has been debased by the executive's greater clout.

Nevertheless, Microsoft's software business continues to generate piles of money, giving Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer Steve Ballmer the clout to bid aggressively for struggling online portal Yahoo!

But, apart from the embarrassment of having to flee its own specially designed new offices in the smoke of Sept. 11, the agency did not have the clout or executive support to confront the deep interagency rivalries.