Sentences with phrase «enormous clout»

Silver has held the post since 1994, wielding enormous clout over the state political scene.

Specter, a former chair of the spending panel that allocates the NIH budget, already had enormous clout as one of a handful of moderate Republicans who could exchange his vote for goodies and help Democrats get legislation through.

The magazine carries enormous clout in the land of the rising sun, and when it does something unexpected — like give a perfect score to a game, for instance — readers take notice.

The result was that after Villanova and Pitt joined the seven charter members, the Big East not only possessed immediate credibility — every conference school except Seton Hall has been to the NCAA tournament at least six times and the Hall has made merely nine visits to the NIT — but enormous clout, too.

It gives us enormous clout, especially in the political arena.