Sentence examples for proven clout from inspiring English sources

Apple Music has proven clout with the most popular musicians, based on its first year.

If nothing else, it suggests that even a singing contest with a huge audience and proven clout in the music industry has to follow the rules of reality show entertainment to stay at the top, which is to say, it needs to be a hyped version of reality that foments tension as well as harmony.

Others, like VINCI Tab from Rullingnet Corporation have been around long enough to have some proven clout in the child development world.

She has proven her clout as a director, independent of her father, but was once, like Hilton, famous only because of her surname.

It is an especially important challenge for the teachers' union, which is eager to prove its clout after years battling Mr. Bloomberg.

The industry — which lists dozens of lobbyists, including former Representative Earl Pomeroy, Democrat of North Dakota, and Thomas A. Scully, who ran the Medicare program from 2001 to 2004 — has proved its clout in Washington before.

But even there, her clout proved limited as her father, through a White House spokesman, swiftly objected to the measure days before the Senate's tax vote.

Having lost the 2010 Republican primary in her state, she proved her political clout by winning the election as a write-in candidate.

Hillenbrand Industries That clout proved to be a liability in the courtroom recently, when a San Antonio jury slapped Hillenbrand with a $174 million verdict subject to trebling to $520 million under antitrust law for trying to squeeze a smaller hospital-bed maker out of the business.

However, luring an experienced developer with enough financial clout into the picture has proven tricky because of the steep cost of engineering studies, asbestos-laden building materials and no guarantees of city financial assistance.

Greenspan had proved that he had clout.