Sentence examples for for clout from inspiring English sources

The Chinese government is hungry for clout and respect.

The conference was held for the first time in London as the city competes for clout in the Chinese market.

Beijing and Washington have sometimes cooperated in Africa (battling Ebola and trying to strengthen the African Union), but often the two powers have competed for clout.

He is hoping to do the same in Ivory Coast, Guinea and Gabon, the remaining stops on his tour.Algeria has long been the dominant north African power in west Africa, but Morocco is now vying for clout.

Mississippians were left in no doubt that a vote for Mr Barbour was a vote for clout in the capital.The new governor has accumulated his extraordinary influence in Washington by bringing about a revolution on K Street.

Symbolic confrontation and proxy battles for clout with another group also seeking to win over the Lebanese people, Hezbollah, are nothing new.

Fabinho was finally booked for clouting Torreira about the ear with a long spidery arm.

Zabenz, age 12, weight 10-5 Has the ability to go close in a race like this, as he showed in the 2007 Betfred Gold Cup, when he would have been second but for clouting the last.

"One set of rules for people of clout, another set for everyone else".

More work still needs to be done to get priority on factory floors, Powers says, but she sees potential for B Corp collaboration in bringing supply chains together for more clout and the cost benefits of bundling.

Both "The Anthologist" and "Traveling Sprinkler," for example, clout Archibald MacLeish over the head expertly and often, for political crimes as well as aesthetic ones.