Sentence examples for of a clout from inspiring English sources

It was bad enough for the University of Illinois when The Chicago Tribune's 2009 series "Clout Goes to College" exposed the existence of a "clout list" that over five years gave hundreds of well-connected students an edge in admissions, and led to the resignations of the university president, the chancellor of the flagship Urbana-Champaign campus and most of the trustees.

The battalions loved it - seeing one of their officers taking a clouting".

That proliferation is due to a mixture of celebrity clout, a huge increase in diagnoses, and the nature of the disorder itself.

Bob Master, co-chairman of the Working Families Party, said: "A political party has a lot of clout in an election year, and we're obviously looking to use that clout to advance the agenda of the party.

Literature from small countries, especially those that were wiped from the map for a few decades, tends to fare badly on the international publishing circuit.Despite that, Estonia's writers have a lot of clout for a country of 1.3m people.

"They have a lot of clout, and a factory for producing lies".

Yes, some gay men, like Hilton, have a lot of clout, and a gay fan base can keep your career alive.

Yet perceptions – fuelled by high unemployment, the impact of terrorism and a loss of international clout – are of a country in crisis.

It is natural that a country of its clout has a global shipping and ports industry.

This "or else" of theirs carries a lot of clout.

Whatever, you need a cheese with a bit of clout.