1.   And labor union chiefs have a decidely mixed record at the gubernatorial level, choosing to exercise their clout far more emphatically in federal elections.

2.   As American social conservatives have grown in power at home, they exercise more clout on foreign policy by denouncing religious persecution across the oceans.

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

4.   His teammates clattered their sticks on the ice in encouragement, but Gretzky, for once, chose to exercise his clout.

5.   Montana was once known as a union state, where miners, sawmill workers and others made good wages and exercised political clout with a big fist.

6.   Or is it by exercising political clout in mixed districts, from whence to modify the positions of officials who might otherwise ignore and undercut minority interests?

7.   Privately, union officials hailed that day as a landmark moment for players, since few could remember a time when players exercised their clout in that way.

8.   Would the prominent Democratic family exercise its clout and call upon the Clinton administration for a special favor for young John?

9.   Exercising new clout after winning a party leadership race, Prime Minister John Major shuffles his Cabinet on Wednesday, keeping the big jobs for like-minded loyalists.

10.   Under Netanyahu, the religious right exercised clout far out of proportion with its size because it served as a crucial swing vote.