Sentence examples for what clout from inspiring English sources

If relative decline is inevitable, Europeans might as well consolidate what clout they have left, and get some credit for being generous to rising powers.

"That seemed to work, and the scratch we did was fruitful, but it felt like it was missing an element of what Clout is about – something exciting".

More important than the physical source of gas is all the other stuff: who owns the distribution and transit pipes, what clout do politicians have in the gas business and vice versa, and where the money goes.

For the United States, fast-developing relationships — with China, India, Brazil — and the challenges of the Middle East loom larger than puzzling out what clout some treaty might one day give an E.U. president.

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.

But it shows you what clout we have!

The rapid growth of the 142-year-old Rochester Business, since Corinthian Colleges acquired it in 1996, is an example of what financial clout can accomplish.

These voters are not going to benefit from a crippled union movement; they live next door to the teachers and nurses and D.M.V. clerks who are about to lose what little clout they had in the state capital.

What adds clout to this declaration is that the president is William J. Flynn, the chairman of the Mutual of America Life Insurance Company, a key participant in brokering cease-fires among paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland -- and the parade's grand marshal in 1994.

To take the rarely mentioned prime example of regional clout, what is Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU)?

With a debut Academy Award in the bag for his turn as stuttering King George VI in The King's Speech, Colin Firth is presumably about to discover what kind of clout an Oscar winner's words carry.