Sentence examples for fierce clout from inspiring English sources
Lincoln Center's board is an example of the fierce clout, monetary and otherwise, that accrues to numerous cultural boards in New York.
An aesthete and an intellect, he dissimulates the rigor of his fierce brain and the clout of his princely pedigree — his father was for thirty-five years the editor of this magazine — behind a droll mask of tentative comic collapse: he's a wolf in schlub's clothing.
This process has also set off fierce haggling — all around — about how clout should be defined.
When longtime media lapdogs on campaign inequities transform into fierce watchdogs in the face of Obama's online fundraising clout, the public is wise to be suspicious.
It was this promise of negotiating clout that gave impetus to the merger of the two hospitals, fierce rivals since each was founded in the early 1950's.
In London, even a mayor with the political clout of Boris Johnson is currently struggling to push through plans for a pair of new bike routes against fierce opposition from business and driving lobbies.
