Sentence examples for personal clout from inspiring English sources

AGENDA -- More personal clout.

Whatever the future leaders lack in legitimacy must be made up in personal clout.

Mr Maliki was widely blamed, by his fellow majority Shias as well as by Iraq's Sunni Arab and Kurdish minorities, for accumulating too much personal clout in his past four years in the job.

It's widely accepted that whoever is appointed will need to have the personal clout to reconcile the two factions within the company responsible for the Windows and Office software.

Erdoğan in particular is on fire, despite the fact he will not run in these elections, performing at rallies daily across the country to lend personal clout to his party's cause.

It's a really weird set up, where my personal clout is directly proportional to Dave Whelan's bigotry.

(See: "Usmanov Ups His Stake In Arsenal, Again") But when it comes to personal financial clout, the odds are tipped firmly towards Deripaska.

The combination of parliamentary clout and personal power means that Mr Modi has a better chance of getting state governments to go along with him than Mr Singh did.

His serene passage, oozing personal authority and commercial clout at every stop, might have been designed to make America look bad.

But the landscape in Brussels differs from that in Washington, where Google enjoys more clout and personal connections with the highest levels of government.

Since 1994, when, Mr. Spielberg said, filming "Schindler's List" opened his eyes to the harrowing stories of survivors, he has used his Hollywood clout and personal fortune to build a vast database of their accounts for preservation and public access.