Sentence examples for increasing clout in from inspiring English sources

Gideon Rachman, the Financial Times foreign-affairs commentator, considers China's increasing clout in the broader context of what he calls, in a remarkably ugly phrase, "Easternization," which is also the title of his well-written new survey (just published by Other Press).

A blunt, impatient man, Mr Rossel is no great listener; his advisers are deferential rather than knowledgeable.Mr Rossel and his fellow supergovernors are a rising class, but the new arrangement that gives them increasing clout in the centre is not backed by unfettered power over their fiefs at home.

Moreover, Brubeck used his increasing clout in the '50s to storm the academy, which had been ferociously resistant to jazz.

But to be fair, I have taken advantage of only a small number of the luxury travel opportunities that have come my way as a result of my increasing clout in the travel blogging community.

Conservatives challenged the act in the courts.Unease about deficits and the "jobless recovery" were factors behind the increasing clout of tea-partiers in America.

Random House and Penguin in Merger Talks  |  The two publishers are trying to protect themselves from the increasing clout of Amazon, Apple and Google in the e-book market.

In a sign of their increasing clout, poor countries won a clear victory over the drug makers.

But with China's increasing clout and the need to protect and promote trade in Asia, the "Pacific pivot" is about more than America upping its military presence in the region.

In each of these three very different categories consumers carry increasing clout.

Always in the foreground of the book is the larger story of Dallas, from its founding in 1841 through its lingering codified racism in the mid-20th century to its various periods of population boom and increased clout.

The company is betting that size creates increased clout.