Sentence examples for remaining clout from inspiring English sources

The United States is also no longer pressing its allies in the Lebanese government to unilaterally disarm Hezbollah, which, given the party's considerable remaining clout, could have provoked a crisis.

U.S. President Barack Obama implored young British people on Saturday not to pull back from the world, a day after sparking a row by bluntly telling Britain it should remain in the European Union to preserve its remaining global clout.

Senior European officials who deal with the administration on missile defense say they enjoy dealing with Secretary Powell but remain unsure what clout he carries within the inner circle of decision-makers.

It cannot pick and choose which repressive regimes it will criticise whilst remaining silent on others - whatever their economic clout might be.

He rang a television show to say that he was replacing the vice-president, José Vicente Rangel, who was one of the few remaining figures in the government with his own political clout.

Where state bureaucracy is weak and political parties have little clout, all too often the means of remaining in office is passing out the ill-gotten gains of being in power.

It is a city where blacks have little clout, few cultural institutions and only one remaining neighborhood, the homely, lonely Bayview-Hunters Point, best known for a sewage treatment plant and radioactive Superfund site.

She said that bundlers had no option of remaining unlisted, and she rejected the idea that they had any enhanced clout with the administration.

Though they have lost some of their military clout, they remain a key part of the Shias' new order.

Only the president has the clout to engineer a true, less costly solution in the days remaining before Congress's summer recess.

The three remaining band members are backed onstage by two more guitarists and a drummer who give the songs new clout.