Sentence examples for less clout than from inspiring English sources

Indian women tend to have less clout than their African counterparts.

As a result, ministers (frequently reshuffled) have less clout than presidential chief secretaries.

He also said that the average Twitter account had less clout than many might think.

Internationally, however, these institutions have far less clout than their Anglo-American counterparts.

The new Mexican president will probably face a divided congress, meaning he or she would wield considerably less clout than past leaders did.

After all, under the modern German constitution the presidency has far less clout than it did during the ill-fated Weimar republic that preceded Hitler.

For better or worse, Mrs Bakoyiannis has less clout in Nicosia than her predecessors did.

"Furthermore, France has much less clout in the E.U. than Germany.

Such has been the disproportionate avalanche of invective about Susan Sontag, Bill Maher and Noam Chomsky that you'd hardly guess they were a writer, a late-late-night comic and a linguistics professor -- Americans with less clout and popular standing than a substitute weatherman on the "Today" show.

Or he could go to new elections, in which case either a rightist leader or a centrist with less clout as a security expert than Mr. Barak would be elected.

The celebrated middle class created by India's boom has far less clout at the ballot box than the hundreds of millions of rural peasants struggling to live on $2 a day, given the far larger rural vote, and thus are courted far less by Indian politicians.