71.   This mix of political muscle and diplomatic savvy will undoubtedly help at the United Nations.

72.   They say that the White House did not seize the opportunity then to put political muscle behind a campaign to ratify this and other pending arms-control agreements.

73.   Those mixed messages make some civil rights advocates question whether Dunbar has the will or political muscle to upset entrenched members of the state police hierarchy.

74.   Weld is out of town on vacation this week, but another Weld adviser also confirmed the governor was very likely to throw his political muscle behind Wilson.

75.   When the shortages come, he said, the growers will not have the political muscle to compete for the water.

76.   You become the proof of the addiction of the United States to litigation, or of the pride and political muscle of a locally powerful immigrant community.

77.   Other sources, meanwhile, suggested that China and its allies were simply flexing their political muscle.

78.   As the U.S. Muslim population grows, members of the faith are flexing their political muscles.

79.   But he said he had the political muscle to push forward on the sorely needed economic reforms.

80.   But he is quick to flex his political muscle when he feels he is fading too far into the background.