Sentence examples for relative clout from inspiring English sources
Money changes hands out of sight, in negotiations that turn on the relative clout of the dealer and the collector.
EU jobs are awarded in long, unpredictable horse-trading: leaders may give one job to a star, and the other to a plodder, thus fixing their relative clout.
One of those humor pieces, "The Power List: My Family," published in 2001, applied the glossy-magazine convention of power-ranking to the relative clout of family members after a divorce and now reads like a prequel of sorts to "The Squid and the Whale".
And what, in turn, does it say about the relative clout of Channel 5, for example?
Both states have a lot of delegates to win, and are very important states in the general election already, so this would only serve to boost their relative clout within the party.
Russia still controls the majority of Central Asia's energy exports, but its relative economic clout in the region is slipping other than as a destination for millions of migrant labourers.
Now that translates into disquiet about relative Scottish clout.
That's important, because we live in a time when the bargaining power of many who depend on their paychecks is much diminished relative to the clout and power of those whose income derives from their wealth portfolios.
But the army's relative lack of clout has been reflected in a budget that Mr Juwono describes as covering just 30% of what is needed, though it is now being beefed up.Nor can the army any longer supplement its official budget so lucratively with the income from myriad businesses.
As much as the outcry spoke of the extraordinary dissension within the Republican ranks, it also underscored another political reality: the relative lack of clout that Northeastern states like New York have in the House, a chamber dominated by conservatives from the South and Midwest.
But so far, it's gotten little notice except from liberal publications and commentators, another sign of the relative lack of clout, so far, of progressive organizations totaling millions of members in shaping the debate in Washington.
