He basically has lost clout within his own party, let alone our party.

As a general-interest firm, Lord, Day was losing clout and clients, it said.

With the original 13 colonies expanding to 33 states, the South kept losing political clout.

Mr. Hoffa bases his appeals on concerns that the union has lost clout.

Politics: Four votes swung from one hundred into another hundred is the difference between gaining control and losing clout.

And he knew that if the program no longer produced a profit, News would lose clout.

The three large unions, which total about two million workers, are rapidly losing members, revenues and political clout.

The coaches, who proved beyond a doubt this season that they aren't above backroom finagling, will lose clout.

But his agency also lost clout with City Hall and saw its staff depleted in the Giuliani years.

"When Caesar humiliated him in the House over that battering-ram business, he lost clout."