Sentence examples for popularity and clout from inspiring English sources

And you can't appreciate the Cowboys' popularity and clout without knowing the high school version of the game, the taproot of all Texas football.

Even so, Mr. Bo's popularity and clout makes disposing of his case an "extremely dangerous" matter for party leaders, said Cheng Li, a scholar of the Chinese leadership at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

"You're talking about the Lakers and they got, what, 18 championships?" Actually, it is 16 titles for the Lakers, counting the five claimed in Minneapolis long before professional basketball had the popularity and clout to claim prime urban real estate for sparkling arenas.

Impressed by their popularity and financial clout, most lawmakers bend over backwards to accommodate them.

Mr. Beedenbender, 27, was an aide to Mr. Levy for more than three years, and the county executive used his considerable popularity and political clout to help Mr. Beedenbender win his seat last year on a platform heavy on immigration reform.

Given Hunt's massive popularity and newfound clout as a Grammy nominee, he'll either be the first to start a new trend on Nashville red carpets, or he'll be the catalyst that gets the men of country music to frantically put cowboy hats back on their heads.

Baseball's popularity and financial clout has also prompted changes in autographs over the years.

It is also incredibly profitable, and growing in popularity and financial clout.

The lag could erode his popularity and, thus, his clout.

The performance against Uruguay, although it resulted in a win, was fraught, one of a side battling with their own awareness of history – and also with the ever knotty issue of Carlos Tevez, whose popularity, political clout and tendency to sulk mean his omission from the starting lineup always creates tension.

It is an election year, a time when political popularity and money translate into clout.