Most do not have the financial clout to counter the extraordinary pressures from financial markets.

Claims about AIPAC s clout have long shaped analysis of US foreign policy.

Nonetheless, almost two decades of economic stagnation have eroded Japan s regional clout.

Asia s new clout holds tremendous promise.

Trade unions were given more clout.

In theory, the Saudis also have the economic clout both to entice and rein in the Taliban.

Complicating matters further, America s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have limited its regional clout.

Small businesses will always complain that they do not have the organizational clout to extract public funds from governments.

These mechanisms have so far promised more than they have delivered, though not for want of continuing efforts to give them more clout.

As Islamists across the Arab world have gained clout, so Hamas has made powerful and rich friends.

With rising economic power has come growing geopolitical clout.

However, observers have interpreted this as an attempt to appease Moscow, which is rumoured to have initially been against Minsk s mediation, which has significantly increased its political clout.

Bolivia s Indians have also used their eco clout to convince the energy companies to bankroll their fight for a 750,000 acre homeland bordering Kempff.

My father has a lot of clout at city hall.

Makarenko uses his social media clout to raise money and supplies for Ukrainian fighters.

Countries with the clout to flaunt the limits will do so whenever it is politically convenient.

But where the Middle East is concerned America always has real clout.

And the opposition has not been able to appropriate the reputation and clout that Assad has lost.

Japan recognized the link between political clout and science in the 1980 s.

When corruption hurts partners with that level of clout, it hurts you, too.

These examples reflect the same message America is losing clout around the world.

Along with their political clout, unions intellectual respectability is also experiencing a renaissance.

Some observers cite these episodes as evidence of decline in America s international clout.

In a negotiation between government officials and a banker with a bonus at risk, who will have more clout in determining the price?

Its economic clout remains formidable, and its commercial and cultural ties to the West are broad and varied.

Meanwhile, donors sheer clout dilutes the accountability of developing countries officials and elected representatives to their own people.

The problem for Palestinians is that Jewish Israelis would have more clout in directing this unified state s development, and they are unlikely to choose equality on their own.

Emerging market large companies growing global clout is reflected in flows of foreign direct investment.

Meaty diets have created a global obesity problem, including, of all places, in China, whose expanding international clout is accompanied by expanding waistlines at home.

The PLA s growing political clout has been manifest in the sharpening power struggle within the Party.

Finally, the international financial community must live up to its responsibility to ensure that the development agenda remains a priority. Countries with global economic clout have a special responsibility to accept that their policy actions have important spillover effects on other countries.

To be sure, trade unions have lost members and political clout owing partly to a decline in their moral authority and hence legitimacy as institutions capable of defending the interests of ordinary working people.

Various ethnic and religious groups, based in different regions, are battling for oil revenue and political clout.

The Orthodox Church has acquired enormous political clout in recent years, and few politicians risk offending it.

The IMF should be given a clear mandate that would give it the political clout to help prevent such crises from recurring.

For months, he told himself and others that first Japan must have another brilliant military gain over the US, so that it would have a modicum of diplomatic clout in negotiating a postwar settlement.

And with the financial storm having largely abated, Germany lacks new opportunities to demonstrate its political clout, both within and outside the eurozone.

In terms of population, GDP, commercial and diplomatic outreach, culture, and military clout, these countries indisputably form Europe's core.

The EU desperately needs a strategic and diplomatic partner that can significantly reinforce its clout in the Middle East.

Though the US had disproportionate economic clout, its room for political and military maneuver was constrained by Soviet power.

President Mahmoud Abbas was never an inspiring figure for Palestinians. With the loss of Gaza to Hamas, his political clout has been diminished even further.

With thriving economies came increased strategic clout, leading to the rise of regional geopolitics shaped by national interests and fears, rather than by external forces.

President Mahmoud Abbas was never an inspiring figure for Palestinians. With the loss of Gaza to Hamas, his political clout has been diminished even further.

Given their economic and political clout, Germany and France are the respective leaders of the eurozone s northern and southern parts.

Britain joined America s Iraq adventure with the same inflated perceptions of its military capacity and diplomatic clout that trapped Bush.