But when it comes to real clout, we are no more than flies buzzing around the admiral's table.

But I often wish that those with some real clout in the fashion world would give us a little help.

Even more surprising, the assembly has begun to exert real clout.

Cyberspace is the movement of mind into another dimension in which the right brain has real clout.

It has needed a takeover with real clout to sort things out.

Q. Isn't the language of this amendment still too vague to have real clout?

Since the consumer accounts for two-thirds of all economic activity, those numbers have real clout.

Irene must've had real political clout, to get an environmental variance.

What's more, he doubted the man had any real clout.

A major politician told me the other day what real clout means - getting hospital space fast for a constituent or friend.