Sentence examples for in the clout from inspiring English sources

The adoption of innovative practices by the influence industry, combined with legal reporting requirements that are full of loopholes, have created misleading indicators which suggest that there has been a decline in the clout of the lobbying sector.

Either way, the controversy will hold up 3G telephony for years, which will carry its own costs, both in the services available to consumers and in the clout of America's high-tech industry.

That story also mentioned Madigan's involvement in the clout lists.

The focus on income disparity, prison reform, climate change, gun control and institutional racism tells us that there's a significant shift happening in the clout of the American public's concerns.

The Western powers helped deliver victory to the motley rebels with air strikes, not ground forces, and did not, in the aftermath, have the clout in the field to help build a peace.

They have done so partly in response to the clout of big retailers such as Wal-Mart.

He gave them the clout in the industry, the ability to breathe the oxygen of publicity.

But it may as well be written in crayon for all the clout it wields.

MTV Networks is the only cable group with both the cultural position and, more importantly, the clout in the industry to launch a channel with so many enemies.

England has by far the lion's share of the population, but on its own it would not have the clout in the wider world that Britain has.

Becoming chair of the House Resources Committee in 2003 gave him the clout he needed.