All of the major countries' farm programs need to be rationalized; all of their farmers pack effective political punch.

And the once-sharp differences between Democrats and Republicans on some central law-and-order issues have become blurred, softening the subject's political punch for either party.

A Nobel with political punch.

When he and Richard Wiles founded the Environmental Working Group in 1993, they dedicated themselves to research with political punch.

"Henceforth all political punches and holds are barred in New Jersey sports arenas."

"What was once a statement of radical solidarity or political passion comes back as a statement of fashion, without the political punch."

Even so, the Democrats did not throw a single political punch at one another tonight.

By the mid-1930's the New Deal had lost much of its political punch and in 1939 the federal theater was finished off by Congress.

We don't have political punch.

While the Republicans spoke sharply against the measure, they pulled their political punches.