Each restaurant does its own buying, but there is one person in the office who makes general arrangements with all the purveyors, which provides clout.
For this new album, Sean Combs provided clout and contacts and left everything else to Wondaland, whose online manifesto declares: "We believe songs are spaceships.
In times past, strong social institutions such as churches, unions, and other support organizations provided clout to their members, but these institutions are disappearing.
As one of music's best-selling singers, she could provide the clout "American Idol" needs to compete in an increasingly crowded talent show field.
By responding as you have, with seriousness, with your own feigned or ignorant outrage directed publicly at George, you breathe life into an ideological fiction crafted by white supremacists and provide it clout its creators never could.
It's now clear that the foundation has a double-standard about who it gives money to and receives money from, and no compunction about using its well-known (and well-guarded) name to provide marketing clout and the appearance of good behavior to some bad corporate actors.
This provided further clout to the next generation of "data-driven" productions.
As a national museum with a large permanent collection from which other institutions might want to borrow, the National Gallery also provided the clout needed to obtain other works.
It hopes that Mercedes will provide the international clout it needs, and the expertise to revive its mass-market range, which has been languishing for decades.
Tencent will presumably provide funding and clout, in exchange for commercial rights to distribution of resulting titles.
