1.   At least in Baja California, real estate should remain a prime factor in building new economic muscle.

2.   Although it is poor now, as Japan and South Korea once were, it too is flexing its economic muscles.

3.   As China stretches its newfound economic muscles, it openly flouts the global rules for international trade.

4.   But reserve-currency status requires much more than economic muscle.

5.   Finance and health care have replaced steel and coal as the economic muscle of this town.

6.   He has been known to flex his economic muscle.

7.   His aides said the sheer size of the city and the state as consumers gives them the economic muscle to benefit, even if there is retaliation.

8.   Some Chinese officials have said that it is time to stand up to American economic muscle, meeting sanctions with counter-sanctions against American goods or companies operating in China.

9.   Ted Gibson, chief economist for the California Department of Finance, already sees signs this year that Los Angeles is building economic muscle.

10.   The dispute comes at a time when the U.S. is using its economic muscle to force open access to foreign markets for U.S. companies.