Sentence examples for insider clout from inspiring English sources

And not even Marc Robinson, with all his insider clout, could persuade the band whose guitar-stabbing anthem triggered the initial Awaydays image to lend us their music for nowt.

The corporation chairman, John Whitehead, and Gov. George Pataki need to assure the public repeatedly that no developer, no advocate group, no politician is slipping through the back doors to wield insider clout while everyone else is standing quietly on the sidelines.

Marni, meanwhile, ticks the box marked: niche-fashion-label-with-insider-clout.

Under the former defense official, former bank insiders say, the institutional clout of staffers responsible for standing up for the rights of marginalized populations eroded.

I'll give the win to Bennet on points, but point out that since this was debate that was only witnessed by a bunch of Washington insiders who have no clout in Colorado and no votes to cast for either of these men, it will not amount to a hill of beans, so, somebody should give Bennet is "I PARTICIPATED" ribbon, and send both on their way.

After two months of vivid testimony about political profiteering in Illinois state government, the 12-member jury found Rezko guilty of using his clout as a Blagojevich insider to shake down companies hoping to do business with the state.

First, it will add clout to an elite of insiders whose record is mediocre.

Backing Mr. Berrios and the entire Democratic ticket will help Ms. Preckwinkle build clout among Hispanics and party insiders, her supporters said.

2005) ("All in all, it is perhaps fairest and more sensible to read Lynch as being premised on a sincere concern that mergers with controlling stockholders involve an extraordinary potential for the exploitation by powerful insiders of their informational advantages and their voting clout".).

The Central Basin Municipal Water District's relationships with state legislators, a former mayor of Bell and other political insiders have enabled the obscure utility to accumulate clout in Sacramento and in the industrial corridor along the 710 Freeway.

Outside the ACMD, Nutt may turn out to have more clout than he ever did as an insider.