Sentence examples for sort of clout from inspiring English sources
The wretched Mr Hendrick, still trying to assert his innocence, does not have that sort of clout.
They will now be expected to have the same sort of clout at next year's Olympics in Beijing.
Mr Wickremesinghe also seems more willing than the president to lift the ban on the Tigers, its main demand for entering peace talks brokered by Norway.The election has given the Tigers a new sort of clout in Colombo.
Ms. de Dudzeele, who has spent the better part of her career obsessing over details of self-packaging, is at home with the notion that a big bag packs power, while its smaller companion carries a different sort of clout.
In California, the movie stars, directors, financiers and attorneys who live in Malibu have a new neighbor with a different sort of clout.
You cannot simply buy that sort of clout or respect, but when you do have marketing budget to spare, invest in selling consumers a particular lifestyle.
For years this sort of political clout has protected Fannie Mae.
Department stores never saw that kind of clout again.
He could have added that his wife, Rachel Whetstone, is an ex-spad who went on to be a PR chief for Google (and now Uber) – just the sort of multinationals whose lobbying clout he now deplores.
