1.   An official protest could carry considerable clout.

2.   Here you begin to know more about who and what carries clout beyond the top management.

3.   And being white will still carry the clout of a Visa Platinum card because whites wield the wealth, he said.

4.   And ordinary investors, though they carry little clout in such mega-deals, have a good shot at getting what they want.

5.   And since Time magazine carried such clout with the Washington press corps, many correspondents discounted the large crowds Truman continued to attract, Mitchell added.

6.   But having the first family as local homeowners apparently only carries so much clout.

7.   Churchill Downs, of course, carries substantial clout in racing, as does Tom Meeker, its chairman.

8.   He has had a chance to check out the other cities for a while so that will carry clout too.

9.   I wonder if the printed word will still carry clout, or if you will only believe me if you see me reading this to you on a viewscreen.

10.   If his name carried enough clout, others would give, swayed as much by who asked them as the project to be funded.