Sentence examples for internal clout from inspiring English sources
He will also owe the National party big time, increasing the internal clout of Barnaby Joyce, who is no shrinking violet when it comes to advancing the junior coalition partner's interests.
A pod's structure, outside the major desks – Foreign, Business, National and Metro – by its nature means that the coverage is not integrated into the regular coverage of those desks, which have their own space in the paper and their own internal clout.
Matt Taibbi, Steve Lopez on socio-economic clout.
Government officials have real clout.
General Rifi was a main figure in the Internal Security Forces and whose clout and expertise will be difficult to replace.
Efforts to quell any unrest before and during the Games also contributed to a rapid expansion in the size and political clout of China's internal security forces, and this growth continued through the following years.
But it shows no enthusiasm for using China's diplomatic clout to try to resolve internal conflicts.Yet Chinese state-run television, in a recent programme titled "Hostage Crisis Abroad, China's Cautious Response", suggested one reason why risks were growing for Chinese citizens overseas: China's growing international influence.
But this may soon change or so intends India's new civil-aviation minister, Praful Patel, a successful businessman.For years Air India and Indian Airlines, the state-owned and highly bureaucratic international and domestic carriers, have used political clout to stop foreign airlines expanding flights to India and to curb the growth of private-sector internal operators.
Although investors are counting on bold action, analysts say the bank probably needs more time to resolve internal differences and deliver on a promise to use its financial clout to tame runaway borrowing costs for the most troubled euro zone countries.
The two companies now spend $175m a year on television programmes; their merger, says Mr Klinkhammer, would produce "tremendous clout" in the TV programme market.Mr Klinkhammer emphatically denies that CME's "internal investigation" at Nova is a house-cleaning exercise ahead of the merger.
