Sentence examples for sufficient clout from inspiring English sources

But no single national authority has sufficient clout.

Neither Mr. Jiang nor Mr. Hu has sufficient clout to name a future leader single-handedly.

But, unlike in football, these nations have sufficient clout to set the rules.

Both playwright, and theatre, still carried sufficient clout to attract a star player such as Peter Falk.

His excellent soul suite hit of 2010, The Defamation of Strickland Banks, garnered Drew sufficient clout to finance and direct his debut feature film, Ill Manors.

They should be senior and experienced enough to be respected by both internal and external team members, and sufficient clout to cut through the bureaucracy as needed.

And they can do so without having to either move or develop sufficient political clout to change government policy.

Here, at last, was a coalition of the right with sufficient political clout to bring in long-overdue reforms.

The Brown case itself actually arose in [Topeka,] Kansas, where blacks did have the vote, but still lacked sufficient political clout to prevent the white majority from enacting school segregation.

I was appalled to learn that even in the face of the environmental calamity that continues to mushroom in the Gulf of Mexico, oil lobbyists have sufficient political clout to withstand restrictions on offshore drilling.

Consigned to the undercard on Six Nations Dénouement Day, Martin Johnson's England managed to summon sufficient attacking clout to get the points they required to finish their campaign with winning momentum.