Sentence examples for no clout from inspiring English sources

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In 1962, at age 19, home on Christmas break, Daley was ticketed for running a stop sign at Huron and Rush, and the Chicago Sun-Times headline was "Mayor's Son Gets Ticket, Uses No Clout," with a subhead reading "Quiet Boy".

"We carry no clout at all".

I'm just the bird guy, no power, no clout.

"Douglas is not worth anything, he has no clout.

That's true in a literal sense – a judge there has no clout here.

"As an individual," Mr. Williams said, "I have absolutely no clout.

But people do: there is, it seems, a certain clout that emanates from having no clout.

Practitioners may voluntarily sign up to one of a number of organisations, but these have no clout.

"The Museum of Modern Art has no clout in the construction world, has no connection to city planners.

Scott Layden had no clout and Don Chaney had no answer and the team had no star point guard.

On the world's most intractable macroeconomic challenge, unwinding the imbalances between excessive borrowing in America and excess saving elsewhere, the IMF has almost no clout.

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