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Example sentences for: clout

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In 1995, Gingrich had the clout to make a centrist budget compromise stick.
Awarding funding to the work of a gay artist because gay Americans need more political clout is an effort at cultural engineering, and the problem with cultural engineering is the problem with social engineering raised to a higher power.
Thrilled at their newfound clout, feminists looked around for another issue.
And there's an interesting paradox here with Africana : Gates is probably the only black intellectual in America with the charisma and clout to get it published.
“…the disease has cropped up in new places, and those are states that have political clout.”