Sentence examples for had a clout from inspiring English sources

For generations, Variety's critics had a clout that far outweighed their number of readers, providing early readings on coming films and Broadway shows to an audience of powerful industry insiders.

Herman Cain has a clout score of eighty-four, whicrusheshes all of them, even though he has only one-eighth as many followers as Gingrich.

"I was a young woman in charge of some big projects, and I had a lot of clout.

Stewart Baker, former general counsel for the National Security Agency, said, "The N.S.A. had a lot of clout, but it didn't have political action committees".

Young people today have a demographic clout similar to that of their once-rebellious parents.

In his eight seasons, James has not had a coach with more clout than him.

Most of them were young and had a degree of social clout — "credible people," Gbessay called them.

Backhouse, who was fluent in Mandarin, Manchurian, Mongolian and Japanese, had a certain amount of clout — and it was almost impossible for his readers to verify his claims.

After Trump's victory they had a belief they were behind it, or had a lot of clout.

Bob Master, co-chairman of the Working Families Party, said: "A political party has a lot of clout in an election year, and we're obviously looking to use that clout to advance the agenda of the party.

"The schools here have a lot of clout.