Sentence examples for least clout from inspiring English sources

The losers from the current system are those Americans with the least clout: the minority who are poor or workers uninsured by either public or private plans.

Of all the countries in the region, Indonesia is the most worrisome for Washington, yet it is the place where the United States has the least clout.

I work at the bottom of the judicial food chain, in juvenile court, and the clients I represent there, abused and neglected children, have the least clout of any in the legal system.

COPENHAGEN — It is one of the grim paradoxes of climate change that nations on the front line of global warming are among those with the least political clout at the United Nations conference that opened this week in Copenhagen.

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Their ideas and, not least, their financial clout made them so popular that they were joined by many parties and organisations.

Mr. Trumka says he believes that if unions are having a hard time increasing their ranks, they can at least restore their clout by building a broad coalition to advance a worker-friendly political and economic agenda.

For a medium-sized country, the more productive course is to seek allies, and for the UK the ideal source of support over Hong Kong is the EU, whose economic clout at least is more equal to Beijing's.

If it comes to a bidding war for water with California, these states know they lack the clout (not least in Congress) to compete; if their water were marketed, they reckon, they would never see it again.Those who like the new policy prefer to call it "water banking".

WASHINGTON — Two weeks after a devastating cyclone smashed ashore in Myanmar, the United States is facing the limits of its clout, at least in dealing with a junta that human rights advocates say is putting its own survival before that of a storm-ravaged population.

Despite this, Germany needs Britain to stay in the EU, as a counterweight to France; a pro-austerity north European state with a globalist trading perspective and residual military and diplomatic clout – not least in Washington when EU/US trade talks are underway – that Berlin respects even as it resists Anglo-French interventionism.