Sentence examples for given more clout from inspiring English sources
Risk-management departments are being given more clout.
Also, why is Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld given more clout and money for intelligence?
Does that make sense?It is not hard to see why the central banks are being given more clout.
Perhaps it was the increasing footprint of money in politics, which has given more clout to corporate interests lobbying for smaller government and lower taxes.
In Italy, the Northern League, which wants more political and economic power for the north of the country, is threatening to bring down the coalition government of Silvio Berlusconi unless regions are given more clout.
He even argues that a leftist win for the Seoul mayorship works in the president's favour, by sidelining a rival faction within her own ruling party which, given more clout, could become a nuisance.Others take a less sanguine view of the election outcome.
It attempts to give more clout to the Board of Elections by increasing penalties and expanding enforcement -- another good push in the right direction.
Along with Richard Viguerie, Paul Weyrich, Terry Dolan and others, Mr. Phillips was a leader of the New Right, a movement that gave more clout to the right wing of the Republican Party in the 1970s and '80s, much as the Tea Party has in recent years.
But Russia's restrictions make its work useless or worse than useless, as Georgia's plight illustrates.Yet Russia's victory in hobbling the OSCE is ultimately self-defeating: the main result is to give more clout to NATO.
Stevens's bill would give more clout and independence to the scientific advisory panels that advise the regional councils, providing data on sustainable yields, health of fish stocks, and risks of accidentally catching protected species.
The Supreme Court sounded poised Tuesday to order a significant shift in how political power is allocated in this country, one that could give more clout to rural and mostly Republican areas at the expense of Democratic-dominated cities.
