Sentence examples for small clout from inspiring English sources

They also need to coax financing from a traditionally risk-averse market and console themselves with the relatively small clout that businesses hold in government.

This is partly because, since 1994, when he founded DreamWorks SKG with David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, he has moonlighted as a studio boss; he has also been, for quite a bit longer, a producer of no small clout and influence.

A small operator in Europe's relatively small markets has little clout in negotiating content rights, especially for Hollywood films and TV series.The survivors in pay-TV seem to be those who got in first.

Small state-owned carriers have little clout when buying planes and are far down the pecking order in global airline alliances.

"But the fact that they have acted so quickly on a complaint from a small company without clout is surprising".

In the meantime, the Republican Party's tendency to reward loyal states — and give all states 10 delegates regardless of population, which increases the clout of small states — gives many small states more influence in the nominating process than they will have in the general election.

It gives disproportionate clout to small, backward provinces.

Small firms without political clout suffer most.Political neglect is hurting the economy.

He has a "community management staff" to assist him, but his real clout is small.

The Socialist Party is too small to wield real clout, and the Netherlands' Republican Society makes a drowsy and generally fumbling impression.

Anyone who has any experience of how the EU works – and I have a fair amount – [knows] that big countries have more clout than small countries.