As a result, America's diplomatic clout is being subtly undermined.

Translating economic clout into diplomatic clout is a hard message to get across, however.

But Japan never made the leap from building car plants around the world to exercising diplomatic clout.

Its other longtime enemy, the United States, has had its diplomatic and military clout severely diminished by this war.

The only nation with significant diplomatic clout is the P.R.C.

It has no military or diplomatic clout.

A. Well we must use diplomatic clout . . . to get all forces to the table.

Competition in the Olympics is often the only chance that countries with little diplomatic clout have to reinforce their national identity.

They argue that it is power - diplomatic clout and military force (or the threat of it) - that ultimately prevails.

Europe must become a political player, a political unit endowed with democratic power and diplomatic clout.