51.   Sao Paulo sprawls like Los Angeles but has very few highways, partly because old neighborhoods have had the political muscle to avoid being bulldozed.

52.   Remember how he hung around just long enough to turn lifeless stick figure Charles Fried into a real action hero with political muscle pulsing beneath his flowing black robes?

53.   Second only to the African National Congress, South African labor unions provided the political muscle that overturned apartheid and the brains that now govern the country.

54.   She cites California as an example of what happens as minority populations grow and begin to flex their political muscle.

55.   The Bush team can claim these votes as evidence of momentum, careful planning and political muscle.

56.   The data, of course, mean political muscle and money.

57.   The Christian Coalition has flexed its political muscle at past Iowa straw polls.

58.   The House vote was yet another demonstration of the growing political muscle U.S. technology companies have in Washington.

59.   The institute has flexed its political muscles before to get the majority of states to pass its proposals.

60.   The gun lobby knows that the political muscle and money it deploys to control lawmakers will not work in a courtroom.