Sentence examples for has no clout from inspiring English sources

"Douglas is not worth anything, he has no clout.

That's true in a literal sense – a judge there has no clout here.

"The Museum of Modern Art has no clout in the construction world, has no connection to city planners.

The reformers won this early round: Rauhi Fattouh, the speaker, who has no clout of his own, has already been made acting president.

Children are far more expert at extracting "grants" from parents than is the Treasury HMRCC has no clout to compare with "Edinburgh could be our big break, Dad".

At the same time the fund still has no clout over countries it does not lend to, even if their policies hurt the global economy (as the excess build-up of reserves, especially in China, surely did).

But people do: there is, it seems, a certain clout that emanates from having no clout.

Scott Layden had no clout and Don Chaney had no answer and the team had no star point guard.

Practitioners may voluntarily sign up to one of a number of organisations, but these have no clout.

"This has happened again and again in a number of provinces where Atlantic started the investment in primary health care," said Le.  Poor governments respond to public pressure just like rich ones — that's why health for the rural poor, who have no clout, is neglected to begin with.

The Internet players have no clout with distributors; they have no clout with advertisers," he says.