Sentence examples for with enough clout from inspiring English sources

Now he is a wealthy, boorish movie mogul with enough clout to give Daisy major social ambitions.

What is even more encouraging, Mr. Silver is probably the only one in Albany with enough clout to sell such a compromise.

Few judges dare defy the president, so taking him to court is futile.Mindful of such precedents, investors with enough clout, like the Chinese government, have insisted on international arbitration.

As the Chinese have abandoned their bicycles, the black A6 has become the automobile of choice for practically any party official or military officer with enough clout to secure one.

Right now, though, they are restricted to companies with enough clout to make them happen, and they're commercially sensitive, which makes it difficult for outsiders to know about them.

Videos could be made cheaply by outsiders like Toni Basil (her "Over My Head" will be shown), but the opposite also existed: a big budget and a band with enough clout to have complete editorial control (Talking Heads's "Road to Nowhere," also in the program).

Few believe that Russia has enough clout with either Mr. Assad or the Syrian opposition to broker a deal that could halt the violence.

"Really it's a question of does the president of the United States have enough clout with members of his own political party to produce enough votes to get this bill debated and ultimately passed," Texas senator John Cornyn, the No 2 Republican in the Senate, told reporters on Capitol Hill.

The Organized Noize-produced hit "Waterfalls" became a massive success and earned the production team enough clout with LaFace to endorse Goodie Mob to the label.

Historically, these individual farmers, with their relatively small harvests, haven't had enough clout to negotiate with the traders who were buying their nuts, so they were constantly being ripped off in terms of true market price and even weighted scales in the marketplace.

Scotland's first minister Alex Salmond led a minority government then but he was re-elected in May 2011 with an overall majority and enough clout to make minimum pricing law.