Sentences with phrase «real clout»

We looked at annual reports, board memberships, media clippings and more to find the leaders of Canada's public companies with real clout

Instagram does, Facebook occasionally does, but when it comes to real clout YouTube is the 800 - pound gorilla in the room.

But who wields real clout?

Patient choice and control are at the heart of what we believe in and the NHS has been slow in giving patients real clout, despite the fact that many people with chronic conditions know as much about their health as their doctors do.

Ronk is attempting to extend that majority of like minds to numbers that speak real clout.

Here's our guide to the CEOs of Canadian public companies with real clout

You are making it needlessly hard, or are perhaps just plain too stupid to understand such a simple fact as: there's no point debunking myths that virtually no one and no one at all with any real clout believes in anyway, but MUCH point in debunking myths that large numbers of people, including powerful politicians, believe should be the guiding principles for the country's entire political culture and laws.

There are still concerns about the code, which is a world - first, how it will be enforced and whether it will have any real clout.

Imagine that, and you'll know how I felt after reading Ron Fimrite's story on The Natural (A Star with Real Clout, May 7), in which you portray Roger Towne as the sole screenwriter.

Wenger (or the board) have managed to turn us into a «Valencia or Sevilla» «schalke or werder Bremen» average teams with no real clout!!!!

The Bronx politician received just two donations this year from bona fide real estate companies, and only one appears to have any real clout.

There was a time when public union workers had real clout, when legislators — before the county executive system took effect in 2009 — shook in their boots at the prospect of labor unrest.

With $ 1 trillion in plan assets, teacher retirement plans have real clout with Wall Street hedge funds.

Teacher retirement plans have real clout with Wall Street hedge funds, and the unions that staff the boards deciding how to invest that money also have clout.

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.

To develop as a mainstream market, a significant push was, and still is, needed from one of the handful of industry players with real clout.