Sentence examples for moral clout from inspiring English sources

Both sides care more about trade.Nor does the West's moral clout in north Africa amount to much.

Secondly, he would wield the moral clout that comes from having already effectively won the leadership in many people's eyes.

There are perhaps only two other Palestinian leaders -- Mahmoud Darwish and Shafik al-Hout -- who wield his intellectual and moral clout, part of a vanishing class of highly educated, urbane and courtly leaders whose voices defy religious and ideological extremism.

Aspiring to intellectual and moral clout, and to a degree of authority not found elsewhere, Documenta has never entirely avoided being a compendium, including the over-familiar and the unnecessary.

"He is a very serious figure, with moral clout... but very down to earth," said Monsignor Eduardo Garcia of the Cathedral of Buenos Aires.

His contribution was praised by colleagues at the ICTY: "Goldstone was absolutely right for his time because he came with moral clout from South Africa and his own particular status as a champion of human rights".

Consumers and citizens clearly have moral and economic clout.

While the Indian judiciary is fiercely independent, the fact remains that America carries enormous moral and cultural clout in the world.

In China's case, most of the other components of true global power — moral sway, military clout, cultural influence, to name a few — are in the assembly stage, or missing altogether.

Instead, they would devote their full resources of money, political clout, moral authority and volunteer time to promoting universal sex education and easy access to contraception, with the goal of eliminating abortion by preventing unwanted pregnancies.

The SWC and its Museums of Tolerance wield enormous moral and political clout.