clout

How To Use clout In A Sentence

• After years of fiscal gloom, they hope Brown will bring his political clout to the corporate realm.
• Chains with more marketing clout, economies of scale and smarter ways of responding to rising costs are edging out smaller chains or those that fail to attract choosier customers. Hamburgers, Fries and a Shakeout
• Mr Sutherland may have the clout needed to push the two trading giants into a deal.
• Their political clout determined the exact arrangements. Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
• Its balance of financial and armed clout should give it a longer shelf life than the Soviet Union, whose military establishment bled its command economy to death.
• The UN's clout in mediating war has long been diminished.
• He and his organisation have clout in framing policy and legislation.
• Having two heavyweights in its corner will give it more clout when dealing with governments. Times, Sunday Times
• Moi j'etais dans la voiture a un stop donc je n'ai pas pu aider la vieille femme qui 'perdue' est resté abasourdie au milieu du passage clouté immobile a regarder de droite a gauche ... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
• He had thrust the wet moccasins down the neck of his shirt, and icy trickles ran down chest and belly, soaking his breechclout. A Breath of Snow and Ashes