Sentences with phrase «considerable financial clout»

At an age when lots of aspiring filmmakers are maxing out their friends» platinum cards, or banging out screenplays in North Hollywood studio apartments, Blomkamp came under the mother - hen protection — and considerable financial clout — of «Lord of the Rings» impresario Peter Jackson.

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In consequence the new middle class has cultural clout enormously larger than one might expect from its relatively modest numbers and financial resources (the latter are considerable, but still modest when compared to the economic might of the business community).

As we watch Robin Google up unclassified documents and interview a bevy of officials, scientists and farmers, we see that today's Monsanto is a giant multinational wielding its considerable financial, political and marketing clout to influence government officials, ruthlessly sue farmers using patent laws — all the while surreptitiously lobbying to keep their potentially toxic products unlabelled or falsely advertised.