The word
"clout" refers to someone's influence, power, or social status. It means having a strong reputation or being respected by others.
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A little - publicized amendment in the new tax law shows the growing political
clout of American spirits producers, particularly the smaller ones.
They have more
clout in more places in the publishing and bookselling business than anybody.
The added advantage of a protective function against all storms would gain lots of
political clout in certain cities we know!
That's because these sites have a lot of
clout with search engines, and the results are typically relevant for someone trying to learn more about a company or brand name.
The beer industry has been consolidating for the past decade as it seeks to gain
more clout with suppliers, distributors and retailers.
This type of thinking would be plausible, if for the past decade, Arsenal had as much
financial clout as City, Chelsea or any of the other top club.
Percoco, a former top lieutenant to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, is charged, along with three others, with taking payoffs from an energy company and a developer to
use clout in the executive chamber to benefit them.
The communities in question would lose political
clout as a result of this change, the suit maintains, but would still be required to provide services — fire, police, infrastructure etc. — to the facilities that house the prisoners who are no longer technically considered residents.
Would the Gates Foundation have as
much clout with education policy as they do now?
Samsung, for example, has enough
marketing clout of its own that copying Apple would do more harm than good at this point.
Ocean Champions is creating a circle of accountability that will lead to increasing political
clout for the ocean conservation community and its legislative initiatives.
They carry way more
clout on a cover and sales page than reader reviews because they're from people we see as having elevated status.
As noted in the recent 2016 State of Women - Owned Businesses Report — and in our previous blogpost — women - owned firms are continuing to grow in number and
economic clout at rates well above the national average.
Though Israel remains on the list, the other two have been bumped in favor of Puerto Rico, thanks to the rapidly
growing clout of New York's Latino population.
Borough President James Oddo and Councilmen Vincent Ignizio (R - South Shore) and Steven Matteo (R - Mid - Island / Brooklyn) are not on anybody's list, though Oddo and Ignizio would certainly wield
considerable clout behind the scenes.
Introduced in the 1984 model year when Chrysler invented the minivan, the Voyager name once possessed tremendous market
clout at Plymouth.
The New York congressional delegation has already
gained clout on Capitol Hill, Mr. Jeffries said, and would attain more sway with Democrats in control of one or both chambers of Congress.
Leveraging the industry's significant financial
clout by taking on divestment is a logical next step.
That's because what he says is if you don't kind of take
social clout for serious, well it's time to take it.
And Rockstar could still
lose clout with fans with actually bad games.
Yet the community continues to
lack clout within the party, said Rep. Christopher Rosario of Bridgeport, the chairman of the legislature's Black and Puerto Rican Caucus.
The Dublin - born actor's Hollywood
clout diminished some at the turn of the millennium with a string of critically maligned and / or commercially unsuccessful fare like Stigmata,
They may make (and break) the laws, but it seems like the ladies have got more
clout over Capitol Hill than any lobby!
«I was quite conscious that we were
giving clout to retail investors by going into CCAA.
That proposal met stiff resistance not only from Romer and the independently elected school board, but also from the leaders of the district's other cities and from the teachers union, which has
real clout in Sacramento.
Being the No. 1 PAC in the nation, as measured by dollars contributed directly to candidates, means
increased clout on Capitol Hill, says Williams, partner and president at Coldwell Banker — Everitt & Williams, Fort Collins, Colo..
It will likely also give the two publishers
greater clout when negotiating with digital distributors like Apple, Amazon and Google.
Do I have more
clout within the corporation to gain positions of work in the company than a non-holder?
In other respects it shows a progression in maturity of Plastic Logic to establish a cheaper manufacture base, and gives Russia some much
added clout on the world stage of technology innovators.
Of course, to suggest that MacKay doesn't wield considerable
clout when it comes to endorsements is simply naive.
Mark Brooks: It remains to be seen if adult personals will
get clouted by this law.
A relative latecomer to the market, DotPhoto is funded by founder Glenn Paul and carries
less clout with prospective partners than its venture - backed competitors do.
If UTLA's referendum on John Deasy meant little to the Superintendent himself, and wasn't persuasive to UTLA - endorsed mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti, it was, perhaps, a sign of just how
little clout teacher groups like Teach Plus, Educators 4 Excellence and Teachers for a New Unionism have exhibited thus far within the union.
Social media and book reviewers also
hold clout with many of our survey participators.
By taking away economic
clout from politically connected firms, street protests could shift the balance of power in countries that have few checks on government influence.
Artists
Lucy Clout, Kate Cooper Anne Haaning and Marianna Simnett talk about their works as shortlisted artists in the 2014 Jerwood / Film and Video Umbrella Awards.
«The 2010 proposed Guidelines represent a national scandal, the triumph of
industry clout over good science and common sense,» says Fallon Morell.
Unfortunately, with
such clout comes a hefty price tag.
Not just when it comes to news of Guillermo del Toro's or Salma Hayek's next film, but also when discussing the politics of drug cartel films like Sicario, the cultural politics of the lilywhite vision of Her's Los Angeles, the box
office clout of Instructions Not Included, and more importantly, whenever anyone wishes to anoint this (yet another) «Latino moment» as if we were some fad destined to leave as quickly as we arrived.
Attributing her her skyrocketing sucess in part to her «social
media clout,» Adweek is featuring our girl on this week's cover.
Since moving into movie production, Amazon's approach has been to mostly work with established independent filmmakers, leveraging whatever
clout comes with their name recognition.
Channing Tatum didn't have a lot of
Hollywood clout when he played a vandal forced to do community service at a dance school in the original Step Up movie.
His bid to shift to the other chamber of the state legislature was only possible with the blessing of Congressman Joe Crowley, the Queens political boss; his campaign is backed by the unions — including the UFT, SEIU 1199, and 32BJ — who have the
most clout in Albany; and Peralta's campaign strategist is from the Parkside Group, a firm that is amassing a list of Senate electoral clients nearly as long as its list of corporate lobbying clients.
Rising proficiency levels should win Rhee
new clout in the city's political circles, new respect among parents and civil groups, and more leverage to turn the troubled system around.
It will have to be an exclusive with the
same clout as Halo.
Their
buying clout here in Canada is clearly evident in Vancouver, a gateway to Pacific Rim economies (although Mak says that at the moment, Vancouver is witnessing a slowdown for Asian buyers and an upturn in local buyers).