Sentence examples for get clout from inspiring English sources

“By using the quality of another company's brand name, you get clout," he says.

Lately it has been building an offshore wind farm in Sweden and digging Canadian oil rigs into the sea bed—"so they don't get clouted by icebergs", says the managing director, Robert Goodden".We can't work fast enough," says Mr Goodden.

Jo is also the author of "She's Got Clout: How to Become A Rising Woman of Influence".

"He foresaw it as something that would be perceived as someone getting clout for making a big contribution".

As Sir Bobby Robson said when recommending Shearer for the post: "Alan will make a very good manager – he's got clout.

"We want the uncertainty to go away and once we've got a decision and the owner comes in and someone who has got clout and can carry us forward, it gives.

I tell you how this would have been sorted in the Lancashire dressing-room 20 years on: someone would have got clouted and we'd have moved on".

"We've really got to believe it, and she's got to have clout".

'You'll be in this play, or you'll get a clout, and then I'll speak to The Parents.' 'If you clout us, we'll speak to The Parents.' 'You'll be in this play or I'll speak to The Parents.' That the threat had been negotiated neatly downwards did not appear to diminish its power.

"They have an anomaly out there, they have clout and get the big names," Mr. Eberle said.

That's where juniors and seniors get their clout, and it works the same way in the Capitol.