Sentence examples for exercise its clout from inspiring English sources

Though it accepted the Greenberg pieces as the focus of an auction, Christie's declined to exercise its clout to dismiss the specialist labels "outsider art" and "self-taught art" and introduce the pieces at its important contemporary art sales in May.

But now the White House has been left in the position of extending invitations, rather than exercising its clout.

But the family trade exercised its pull.

It was flexed to exercise its joints.

It also exercised its Consert instrument.

So, last October, LVMH exercised its option.

President Leonid Kuchma, however, controls the two main national channels, both still state-owned.Mr Kuchma does not shrink from exercising his clout.

After lying low for so long, Mr. DeLay was eager to resume his hard-right ways and start exercising his clout in the high-octane atmosphere of a George W. Bush victory.

How Weinstein fought the dawning amfAR scandal is an illustration of the ferocious manner in which he had long exercised his clout, and of the impunity he long could count on, thanks to the help of some well-placed friends.

Bloody battles lie ahead if Hancock as the new link man between Cabinet Office and the Treasury is to construct that fabled corporate centre and get it to exercise real clout.

PARIS — A day after European leaders unveiled their latest plan to save the euro, top officials opened talks with China in an effort to lure tens of billions of dollars in additional cash, giving China perhaps its biggest opportunity yet to exercise financial clout in the Western world.