Sentence examples for quiet clout from inspiring English sources

With his quiet clout, Love is able to turn back the calendar on the island so it is like the Fourth of July once more.

But his opinions still carry clout.

But it is not clear how much that declaration counts for; Mr. Medvedev's mentor, Vladimir Putin, now prime minister, still has huge clout and has been remarkably quiet on this score.

America still has huge clout in Europe.

"Be still or I'll clout you".

In 1962, at age 19, home on Christmas break, Daley was ticketed for running a stop sign at Huron and Rush, and the Chicago Sun-Times headline was "Mayor's Son Gets Ticket, Uses No Clout," with a subhead reading "Quiet Boy".

Most encouraging, activists have growing clout not only in high-profile cases but at grassroots level, where the internet helps to highlight instances of "quiet" (low-level) corruption.The big international bodies dealing with corruption are making progress.

Clout pays off again.

"The EU has clout.

Apple has similar clout.

But they lack clout.