Sentence examples for policy clout from inspiring English sources

Kazakhstan's economic success and foreign policy clout are, in most cases, underestimated, while its dependence on Russia highly exaggerated.

Cities' economic and public policy clout will increase through urbanisation.

His role within our constitutional monarchy is a glorified figurehead position with zero policy clout as all treaty obligations the Crown entered into were passed to the government.

TAMPA, Fla., Aug 29 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brought foreign policy clout to the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, condemning what she described as a stark failure of leadership by President Barack Obama.

Britain is big outside as well as inside; it has bargaining power; it wields foreign-policy clout.

JUST as Poland's economy and foreign-policy clout have grown quietly but significantly, so its banking system has become one of Europe's little-known star performers.

The EU's foreign-policy clout is weakened because its big member states still tend to go their own way, most spectacularly over Iraq.

The prospective enemy this time is not a godless Soviet-backed regime but an emphatically Islamic one that Pakistan itself has carefully nurtured as a way of furthering twin policies: clout in Central Asia and pressure on India to settle the dispute over Kashmir, a Muslim-majority state divided between the two countries.

I would suspect at this point that the Pentagon has more policy-making clout than we do".

In the cartoon, a pack of wolves sits baying at the moon while one wolf in the back row asks his neighbor: "My question is: Are we having any impact?" That is, he says, just how he feels as head of the plan association, a research-based agency with no policy-making clout but a responsibility to represent the public interest.

Abroad, an activist foreign policy brought new clout and new criticism.