Sentence examples for level of clout from inspiring English sources

"It's part of the geopolitical process," he said, "and Microsoft has a level of clout that a lot of other folks don't in Washington and in other countries".

Yet Pink Mist allows the combined foursome a greater level of clout than they'd be able to offer individually, from the boring stuff (marketing, distribution) to the more fun side of things, such as joint Pink Mist releases, gigs and "just bouncing ideas off each other".

The Toshiba name also offers a certain level of clout for enterprise customers who may be wary about buying from startups that have only been around for a few years.

Blackdown is a humble man, but he possesses a level of clout that many DJs would kill to have; he's a tastemaker's tastemaker, which makes him the perfect subject to kick off our new column, the Lookout.

This is partly because of the historical resilience of tribes in these areas, where they maintain a higher level of political clout than indigenous peoples elsewhere.

The former governing party, and in particular the outgoing governor of Tabasco, had hoped to win a convincing comeback victory to restore some level of political clout and to reunify its fractured bases of support.

Mr. Zakaria's central thesis is that while the U.S. still has many unique assets, "the rise of the rest" — the Chinas, the Indias, the Brazils and even smaller nonstate actors — is creating a world where many other countries are slowly moving up to America's level of economic clout and self-assertion, in every realm.

And Cuban-American leadership reaped the benefits of exile-friendly policies, not to mention a level of political clout in Washington arguably disproportionate to their actual population.

But Reliance does have an uncomfortable degree of clout.

It is increasingly recognised that a very large part of 'human wildlife conflict' is rather a human to human conflict between different interest groups with polarised views as to who should be able to dictate the use of land and wildlife and with generally very different levels of political clout and economic prosperity (see e.g. work by Manfredo et al. 2009 for the USA).

Parents have limited outlets for expressing their concerns and often have to muster a certain level of knowledge and clout to get attention.