Sentence examples for organized clout from inspiring English sources

"Their organized clout is real.

Over the years they've accreted to the system like barnacles and have the organized clout to protect their spoils and block any threat to the status quo.

(Appointed delegates, Repair California reasons, would be beholden to whoever appointed them; and if the delegates were elected, the elections would inevitably be low-turnout affairs dominated by money and the organized clout of special interests).

Thanks to the organized clout of the gun lobby and the manner in which the constitution gives small states outsized political power, these views command a veto over policy.

The union put its organizing clout behind it, helping families dealing with diabetes tell their stories to lawmakers and the public.

The vote was the latest show of organized labor's clout at City Hall.

The plaintiffs are represented by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, an anti-union group that funds lawsuits aimed at diminishing organized labor's clout.

The plaintiffs in Harris v. Quinn were represented by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, a conservative group that bankrolls cases aimed at diminishing organized labor's clout.

But as organized labor's clout has waned -- a mere 6.7percentt of private-sector workers now belong to a union -- alt-labor groups have been effective at making employers squirm and notching victories for workers, particularly in low-wage industries like food and retail.

Labor unions led the failed effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, and their defeat in Tuesday's election was a significant setback to organized labor's political clout in both symbolic and tangible ways.

Steven Law, chief executive of American Crossroads, a political nonprofit that Mr. Rove also helped to found, disputed the labor leader's take on President Obama and Elizabeth Warren, but he acknowledged organized labor's political clout.