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
Their economic clout can only get stronger. Times, Sunday Times
There are few people in the world of popular music who have as much influence and clout as he does.
The guilds and unions in the American film industry are still strong, and have the clout (in theory) to protect their workers against the depredations of management, and against their own love of the Job.
It started raining, two or three clouts on the table then a cloudburst. WHITE LIES
Maybe the influence of big-money clout is diminishing somewhat. Christianity Today
The size of this group magnifies its political clout. The GOP's Secret Weapon: Flower Power
N., the national agencies held veto power, giving them a privileged status befitting their clout and status.
So hold the holy water and stifle the Mephistophelian pipe-organ toccata: Nestlé is using its corporate clout for good, not...evil. Forbes Faces Of The Week: June 19-23Faces Of The Week: June 19-23
Both countries have clout within the African, Arab, and non-aligned groups.
European officials are exploring plans to pool representation of euro-zone nations intoa single seat at the IMF, which could boost the bloc's clout. What's News: Business & Finance
The elaborate tassels on the ends of his red breechclout reached below his knees when he stood.
Lewis earned tremendous clout when the sport went pro.
But then Pandorama 'clouted' three out, surely knocking his confidence at a crucial stage of the contest. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The Tories have reformist policies, but lack the electoral clout.
Politicians in the centre worried that the extra financial clout of the provinces could encourage separatists.
The result was a thundering clout behind the right ear.
And it will sometimes turn out that individuals with clout or influence have used it. Times, Sunday Times
An official protest could carry considerable clout .
Lacking the clout to lower quotas, afraid of appearing anti-industry, and—most remarkably and damningly—so attached to whaling as a source of research data that they could not bear to see it disappear, the scientists of the International Whaling Commission were "sucked into the belly of the beast," Mr. Burnett concludes. The Cetacean Century
Oh, they have a lot of clout, yes, certainly in my part of the country and in the southwest.
And he now has the clout to do something about it.
I was half tempted to give one of them a clout myself.
Scale and a wider array of familiar brands can give a supplier extra bargaining clout as well as yielding useful cost savings. Times, Sunday Times
Those in the know will tell you he got in the team in the first place only thanks to family influence and political clout.
It is a power that gives you huge clout and one that you can use to change things. Times, Sunday Times
Crawford shrugged him off and then clouted the ball from 30 yards with his other foot this time, the right one.
Mr Sutherland may have the clout needed to push the two trading giants into a deal.
To fix: Using clout or influence to produce a favorable result, usually from an entity of government.
¶ And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to A'i, they did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; and old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy. Joshua 9.
She came upon a boy, breech-clouted and bare, like a copper god. CHAPTER 2
Setup is joyously simple, and DVD performance is good, if not spectacular, but the sound is anaemic, lacking sufficient detail for music and serious clout for movies.
Men would emerge from their rooms, fully dressed, with the dishclout in one hand and the hand-basin in the other -- on the way to their morning tub. Across China on Foot
Other teams coming down will have better financial clout. Times, Sunday Times
He gave him a clout round the ear.
But he needed some financial muscle, a little fiscal clout to open a few doors for him.
Despite gaping holes in the Indian economy and the discrepancy between rich and poor, pride in the country and its growing economic clout is high. Times, Sunday Times
He had no idea what the fuss was about but fetched her a good clout round the ear just to be sure.
Grey Beaver clouted White Fang alongside the head, so that he cowered down close to the earth in respectful obedience. The Mad God
To fix: Using clout or influence to produce a favorable result, usually from an entity of government.
Their economic clout can only get stronger. Times, Sunday Times
That reflects a relationship where the company is using its monopoly clout to drive some hard bargains.
I was afterward to learn, and also, as I was to learn, a handy thing to clutch hold of with one hand whilst you clouted with the other when an argument went beyond words. Chapter 15
His horsemanship on a mount who had clouted two fences on the first circuit had some of the best judges of jockeyship cooing up in the stands. Fabio Capello has failed to help England's elite beat their demons | Paul Hayward
An official protest could carry considerable clout .
Indian breechclouts and legging pants finished his mismatched uniform of style and fealty.
If Hillary is such a leader, so knowledgable about the ways of DC, couldn't she have used some of her clout to voice her disdain for such an obviously "stoopid" policy? Obama: It's Me Against The D.C. Foreign Policy Establishment
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Perhaps it could be argued that there is a heirarchy among publishers of poetry, certain publishers on whose list many poets would like to be included, but this is a heirarchy of community esteem, as Silliman might put it, not a heirarchy based on "marketing budgets" and "clout" with bookstores or newspaper book reviews. Poetry
“Despardieux, milor,” said the Chevalier, “if he had stayed one moment, he should have had a torchon — what you call a dishclout, pinned to him for a piece of shroud, to show he be de ghost of one grand fanfaron.” The Fortunes of Nigel
It is difficult to imagine how such small numbers, even when concentrated in particular police precincts, could yield the necessary political clout to force more sensitive policing.
A closet one-worlder at the WSJ used his newspaper's "conservative" clout to seduce American business leaders into sacrificing U.S. sovereignty for trade.
As the label disintegrated, Defari's clout continued rising. Hip Hop News from HipHopGalaxy.com
Both countries have clout within the African, Arab, and non-aligned groups.
His leadership has been accompanied by immense popularity that has endowed him with significant power and political clout.
Some costs are straightforward, such as the time, money, and political clout required to develop suitable air-to-surface ranges, carve out military operating areas, and provide and allocate training munitions and sorties.
He got a real clout on the head and I'm not sure he realised where he was. Times, Sunday Times
The labor movement's political clout is waning with most red states having right to work laws that effectively ban unions.
No matter what they did she bobbed up again, fiery, fearless, clouting to the left and the right with her wit.
This pair wield a quiet clout. Times, Sunday Times
Quigley clouted me smartly across the side of the head.
the kangaroo's forearms seem undeveloped but the powerful five-fingered hands are skilled at feinting and clouting
But critics say they are little more than a toothless watchdog, lacking the clout to change entrenched practices.
Increasingly, celebrities are using their media clout and general popularity to gain political puissance.
BELLO: (SATIRICALLY) By day you will souse and bat our smelling underclothes also when we ladies are unwell, and swab out our latrines with dress pinned up and a dishclout tied to your tail. Ulysses
He clouted his attacker
This financial clout keeps countries coming back. Times, Sunday Times
It has been known for years that the test is illogical and is a joke, but they have enough clout to be able to persuade a weak government and feeble ministers.
Men have lost their reason in nothig so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
Large brass hoops were in his ears; he was naked to the waist, wearing simply leggings, moccasins and a breechclout. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
As I do so, I clout the dog with my elbow [probably right in the face].
I had to resort to clouting her with my underwater flashgun; she looked at me reproachfully with her enormous eyes and went off in search of more receptive playmates!
This avoids duplication, cuts cost and gives everyone greater clout against the increasingly competitive forces of the global food sector.
While the prospects for a successful challenge through the courts or via the FA appear increasingly forlorn, the south-west London torch-bearers undoubtedly have one major advantage: commercial clout.
They garner increasing financial and diplomatic clout, too. Times, Sunday Times
I managed to avoid clouting my camera on a rock on the long swim back.
Cloutier-Steele includes her own story in which she was hysterectomised in 1991 for possible endometriosis.
He caught me off guard and clouted me in the side of the face.
If the mayor has limited clout on the council, it's partly because he has little constituency support in the city.
Ros Davidson examines the mega-clout wielded by the chat-show hostess from humble Mississippi.
My father stood at his door and held in his upraised hand a pair of villainous boots, old and "clouted," fit for the Gibeonites, very different from the substantial English aids to the understanding which he had placed in all good faith outside his door the previous night. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873
The companies used their clout to influence the policy.
In the back, I pull the two sides out so that the breechclout covers my bottom like a bathing suit.
We looked down on the unpolished wretches, their impertinent wives, and clouterly brats, as the lordly bull does on the little dirty ant-hill, whose puny inhabitants he crushes in the carelessness of his ramble, or tosses in the air in the wantonness of his pride. The Letters of Robert Burns
Mr Clouter said three helicopters and a hovercraft then arrived on the scene, along with some two dozen police officers.
So hold the holy water and stifle the Mephistophelian pipe-organ toccata: Nestlé is using its corporate clout for good, not...evil. Forbes Faces Of The Week: June 19-23Faces Of The Week: June 19-23
Got a clout on the head too. The Sun
This tactic of reference combines an admired or revered position with an effective individual to increase a less powerful person's clout.
He lacks the clout to fully assert himself - he remains fundamentally isolated.
Quigley clouted me smartly across the side of the head.
After that he wore a breechclout, leggings, and moccasins. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
In an effort to make factory farming less appealing, they petitioned the EPA in September to force emissions from the manure at confined animals operations such as dairies to comply with the Clean Air Act. The clout amassed by the organization with a $157 million annual budget means it sometimes can score victories without mounting a fight. WCAX - Local News
Ay, man, we mak a dishclout o't, an 'we wring't, an' we wring't, an 'we wring't, an' the bree [163] o't washes a 'the lave o' our prayers.” Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
Damn ‘em, they don’t value all the ill words or dishonour in the world at a rush, so they but get the coin into their purses, though they were to have it in a shitten clout. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
His shot was so venomous and expertly delivered that he did not even move as the ball sped over him, flattened and clouted the netting.
How the muse happened to visit him in this clay biggin, take a fancy to a clouterly peasant, and teach him strains of consummate beauty and elegance, must ever be a matter of wonder to all those, and they are not few, who hold that noble sentiments and heroic deeds are the exclusive portion of the gently nursed and the far descended. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
Despite gaping holes in the Indian economy and the discrepancy between rich and poor, pride in the country and its growing economic clout is high. Times, Sunday Times
Ne'er cast a clout till May be out.
Men have lost their reason in nothig so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
The Nermernuh had arrived in town in buckskins and breechclouts. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
Cyber security has grown in importance and visibility, and political clout.
“Despardieux, milor,” said the Chevalier, “if he had stayed one moment, he should have had a torchon — what you call a dishclout, pinned to him for a piece of shroud, to show he be de ghost of one grand fanfaron.” The Fortunes of Nigel
Sometimes a fitted leather breechclout was worn with flaps in front and back, decorated with quillwork.
An alderwoman described the leader of the failed attempt to construct a baseball field as someone who is 'politically ignorant and has no clout'.
Not that he lasts long, as his opponent viciously clouts him from behind.
In fact, it is a surefire way to ask for trouble, especially if you are not a brawny entity with plenty of legal and monetary clout to back you all the way.
Lendoiro secured a loan to wipe out the club's debts and give the club some clout in the transfer market.
As a result the farmers have built up a sustainable business that as well as offering marketing clout, runs a subsidized store, a credit union, and employs a Cuban agronomist specializing in organic methods. An Interview with Anita Roddick, founder of The Body SHop
Those with the clout to do something about it are stirring into action. Times, Sunday Times
The proposed acquisition of discount carrier AirTran Holdings Inc. by larger rival Southwest Airlines Co. would combine two all-Boeing fleets, creating an airline likely to have more clout in dealings with aircraft maker Boeing Co. Southwest Looks Likely to Gain Sway Over Boeing
The player stood off and a massive clout with the right foot from around 25 yards followed.
But the private shareholders, the little people who had none of the big boys' clout and bargaining power, were treated with contempt.
The horse, who would have won even more convincingly that day had he not clouted the final fence, looks capable of following-up in similar company tomorrow.
I would welcome back the past, where scrumping apples would earn you a clout around the ear.
The queen may have privilege but she has no real political clout.
This tactic of reference combines an admired or revered position with an effective individual to increase a less powerful person's clout.
My young superiors never insulted the clouterly appearance of my plough-boy carcase, the two extremes of which were often exposed to all the inclemencies of all the seasons. Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists
Simon would have to use every bit of clout he possessed to ensure that the body was safeguarded, along with the test data showing the presence of human DNA and the eradication of the allomorphic trait. Perseus Spur
Hard by our trysting-place was a hazel-copse thick enow, for it was midsummer, and she said she would go thereinto and shift gowns, and bear me out thence the gift of the old clout (so she called it, laughing merrily). The Water of the Wondrous Isles
One-term aldermen enter as semi-lame ducks, unable to forge political connections and build up the kind of relationships that would allow them to wield real political clout on the board. Yale Daily News: Latest Issue
Those with the clout to do something about it are stirring into action. Times, Sunday Times
As a result, we seek to force trade, win economic contests by colonizing others, ever-increase our share of distant economies, and manufacture a global "interdependency" while labor's clout, democracy, ecology and balance are destroyed. GROWTHISM & The Ruin Of Everywhere
He will, at the very least, see the addition of Your and Legend as giving him some greater clout and positioning the company for another assault.
Given the satirical clout of his greatest operettas, the charge of triviality now strikes us as absurd, but it rankled.
Ne'er cast a clout till May be out.
This financial clout keeps countries coming back. Times, Sunday Times
Today, it is a military alliance without any political clout. Times, Sunday Times
I gave him a clout on his nose
John hugely enjoys his regular opportunity to terrify the children and clout his fellow cast members!
The house was guarded by three wooden figures, “clouterly carved,” and powdered with ochre or red wood; two of them, representing warriors in studded coatings of spike nails, with a looking-glass fixed in the stomach, raised their hands as if to stab each other. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
In Britain it has totemic and commercial clout. Times, Sunday Times
That's that thing about ne'er casting a clout, right? Times, Sunday Times
Doctors have considerably more political clout than teachers.
This body should be moved elsewhere and given considerable ministerial clout. Times, Sunday Times
One of the first things that leaped off the page and clouted me in the snoot was a phrase in the opening paragraph. So I went to my writer's meeting today....
He has a lot of clout within the party.
But he gives it a clout and knocks it eight feet past.
They do not always have the financial clout to follow through. Times, Sunday Times
It's now clear that the foundation has a double-standard about who it gives money to and receives money from, and no compunction about using its well-known and well-guarded name to provide marketing clout and the appearance of good behavior to some bad corporate actors. Richard (RJ) Eskow: False Apology: At Least Four Komen Recipients - And Sponsors Like Bank Of America - Are 'Under Investigation'
Quigley clouted me smartly across the side of the head.
BELLO: SATIRICALLY By day you will souse and bat our smelling underclothes also when we ladies are unwell, and swab out our latrines with dress pinned up and a dishclout tied to your tail. Happy Bloomsday
It is a power that gives you huge clout and one that you can use to change things. Times, Sunday Times
If women have financial clout or high political or business positions, then they too can determine the changes that will affect their lives and the lives of others.
Gin ever he observes a proud professor, wha has mae than ordinary pretensions to a divine calling, and that reards and prays till the very howlets learn his preambles, that's the man Auld Simmie fixes on to mak a dishclout o '. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
An elected regional assembly would have the clout and funding to make a real difference to the quality of life of people who live and work in the North West.
Johnston dismisses his opponents as being ‘large in numbers but small in clout’.
For not unfrequently it happens that, for some reason or another, one feels abased, and inclined to value oneself at nothing, and to account oneself lower than a dishclout; but this merely arises from the fact that at the time one is feeling harassed and depressed, like the poor boy who today asked of me alms. Poor Folk
But Dawn Run was back alongside by the next fence only to suffer another reverse when clouting the fifth from home.
Spenser, with all his rusty, obsolete words, with all his rough-hewn clouterly verses; yet take him throughout, and we shall find in him a graceful and poetic majesty. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
That's that thing about ne'er casting a clout, right? Times, Sunday Times
Then there was a tremendous splash as the dog's fully-clad owner jumped into the pond and began wading through hip-deep water, clouting the fleeing swan with a stick.
But his self-appointed mission to restore to jazz a cultural-political clout it had in the first bop era and in the free-jazz of the 1960s makes him something considerably bigger.
Then, having made the case that the Tea Partiers are deficit stalwarts, Hulse pivots seamlessly to say: "The clout of the freshmen and other House conservatives was clearly seen in the decision by Speaker John A. Boehner to pull back from trying to reach a sweeping deficit deal that would have taken new revenue while tinkering with Bush-era tax cuts that many House Republicans hold sacrosanct. Jonathan Weiler: New York Times Acts as Press Secretary for House GOP Freshmen in Deficit Fight
You could roll your eyes at her maudlin excesses and her spiritual imperiousness, but you couldn't deny her clout, or her courage.
Political clout derives much more from economic strength. Times, Sunday Times
The men wore breechclouts and moccasins, with leggings and a robe to cover themselves in cold weather.
And by belonging to a national organisation it meant that local businesses had clout on the big issues such as excessive bureaucracy and taxation.
Fifteen years ago maybe they would have had the clout to start pushing digital reading devices something that's way, _way_ overdue, and not because it's a terrible idea at its root like the flying car, but they probably don't now. Is Marvel’s Digital Library Good? | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
Scale and a wider array of familiar brands can give a supplier extra bargaining clout as well as yielding useful cost savings. Times, Sunday Times
He then drove a wedge between them; Parker, with his Napster experience, could see Facebook's full potential and believed that he, rather than Saverin, had the contacts and clout to "monetise" the business. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Watch out for the mayflower of the hawthorn tree: ne'er cast a clout till may be out. Times, Sunday Times
Also discussed was the pumping of extraneous water by the mining industry and the conversion of a committee of inquiry into the importation of waste cupric arsenite into a full commission of inquiry so as to afford it the necesasary clout. ANC Daily News Briefing
Sure, business interests deserve some clout in a democracy, but this is ridiculous.
Maybe the influence of big-money clout is diminishing somewhat. Christianity Today
Men have lost their reason in nothig so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
Political clout derives much more from economic strength. Times, Sunday Times
This pair wield a quiet clout. Times, Sunday Times
We looked down on the unpolished wretches, their impertinent wives and clouterly brats, as the lordly bull does on the little dirty ant-hill, whose puny inhabitants he crushes in the carelessness of his ramble, or tosses in the air in the wantonness of his pride. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
Umlaut knew the word passel because he had heard Demon Professor Grossclout use it once. Up In A Heaval
Tumplen Bar whereupont he was much jubilated by Boerge-mester “Dyk” ffogg of Isoles, now Eisold, looking most plussed with (exhib 39) a clout capped sunbubble anaccanponied from his bequined torse. Finnegans Wake
Now the one entity with the economic clout to counter-act that spiral is the federal government. Think Progress » Poll: Tea partiers afraid of ‘big government’ want the government to create jobs and rein in Wall Street.
She's gotten a hurt man down there," said Jerry, "she has been runnin 'wi' white clouts and bandages a 'the forenight. The Dew of Their Youth
Thanks to union clout, he notes, salaries and benefits for teachers, bus drivers and city secretaries have outgained the private sector during this sluggish economy. 'The New Tammany Hall'
And here's the thing: I honestly have no problem with Glenn Beck using his TV - and radio-generated clout to set up a highly politicalized Web site, one where people can criticize the president and leaders of a certain political party. Will Bunch: Glenn Beck's Warped Hijacking of "9/12 America"
Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of Floridians with financial means and political clout with the GOP power structure have bought into this increasingly popular, albeit wrongheaded, system of what I call abbreviated education on the cheap. South of the Suwannee
To my dismay, one small box of carefully packed pottery ornaments must have received a heavy clout at some time in the past few years and many of the pieces were chipped, or rubbed.
Dishclout, and not being at board wages, imagined he had a right to the fee-simple of the dripping-pan, therefore he made an attachment on the sop with his right-hand, which the defendant replevied with her left, tripped us up, and tumbled us into the dripping-pan. A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812
This body should be moved elsewhere and given considerable ministerial clout. Times, Sunday Times
For Ure, however, special expertise is less important than the essentials of contact and clout.
A lovely use of strobe accentuates the animal's colours without feeling too artificial and a strong diagonal line give the photo even greater clout.
Ne'er cast a clout till May be out.
There is no equivalently left-wing analogue with any clout in the United States.
Analysts and lawyers say big Chinese state-owned companies can be especially aggressive in dealing with foreign companies because of their government backing and the enormous clout they wield within China in industries that are often oligopolies. In China, Some Firms Defy Business Norms
The idea is to give domestic artists and record companies, who may not have the promotional clout of their American counterparts, a better chance of getting their music out to the public.
If the photocopier stops working just give it a clout.
The successful Liberal party candidate in the last pre-Farclandia election, he has the title but not the clout.
Despite gaping holes in the Indian economy and the discrepancy between rich and poor, pride in the country and its growing economic clout is high. Times, Sunday Times
Swans are normally very strong and could inflict some nasty bites or give strong clouts with their wings.
If anyone clouts the ball harder than the midfielder you would not want to be on the receiving end.
Ya'alon does have clout, by virtue of his position on the "septet," Netanyahu's supreme decision making forum where the country's weightiest policy issues are decided. Israelated - English Israel blogs
Another delegation tries to get in, this one with more worldly clout and more success.

How To Use Clout In A Sentence

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