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If not, did you still have some clout over them?

Others said he simply did not have enough political clout.

After all, he had the clout to bring you two down here.

The only way to effect change is to have political clout.

Still, the old days when clout was enough are clearly gone.

China has a billion people and a lot of clout.

To bring a good idea to market, it takes some clout.

And got a hard clout across the head for it.

Stay in the business and get some clout, then use it.

He knows how these things are done and usually has the clout to do them.

And he's got the financial clout to make things happen without too many Questions being asked.

And big business is using its clout to influence policy.

"But he does not have the clout of his father."

Then each would have the same amount of military clout.

He's a powerful man with a lot of political clout.

They have little political clout, though, and people make fun of them.

As he could be, if someone with some clout spoke for him.

You've got enough clout in the party to do it, you're the President.

That kind of clout seems to be what many local Republicans want.

It's been often said you needed somebody with some clout to talk.

"So now you're thinking I've got political clout friends in high places?"

And somehow I will find the person with the clout to help.

She supposed that gave him all the clout he needed to order her around.

Nor is it clear whether he has the clout to keep the party job.

Some in Congress want legislation to give the office more clout.

He clouted an enemy in the side of the head.

No one ever clouted your father in the ear, though.

At the next instant something clouted me on the back of the head.

One clouted him across the head hard enough to set the world spinning.

The second time, she clouted the wall before crashing to the floor again.

I lost it when David clouted me upside my head.

He was the one what clouted you across the head.'

At dinner, however, I had no need to be vigilant for clouting.

And they've clouted it from the outside going in.

Three men turned on the rabble-rouser and clouted him cold.

He walked over to Burke, bent down and clouted him on the side of the head.

He'd clouted me almost absently that time, across the room and into a corner.

For clouting her wouldn't do much good, he knew in his heart of hearts.

With a sort of grunt, he wound his hand back and again clouted me, hard, on the face.

Roland beat the man off, clouting him to the moss with his strong hand.

Samson had clouted her for burning it - the beginning of a long bad day.

But he clouted it somewhere, and that means we can get back on the track."

Short of clouting Alec with a rock, yelling at him was the only way to get his attention.

"Someone made a run for it through the back door and clouted a constable.

He clouted her hard on the side of the head, and shoved her away from him.

"He's the man who clouted you on the head."

A small, strong hand clouted him under the jaw and then jerked the staff from his grasp.

In other circumstances he might well have picked up his shovel and clouted the stranger across the head.

He clouted the officer across the head with the butt of his impeller.

I tried to get away, and he must have clouted me, I really don't know.