1.   Analysts said the expected new finance minister, Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, could have the political pull to push through a supplementary spending package.

2.   But instead they are starting at the top because of political pull.

3.   But their critics contend that over the years the outfitters used their political pull to escape regulation by the Forest Service.

4.   In many cases, analysts say, these members use political pull to borrow with less collateral and force the banks to buy property at above-market prices.

5.   Not since Lyndon Johnson went to the mat on civil rights has a president put so much on the line for so many people with so little political pull.

6.   The top jobs were invariably cushy and easy to get with a little political pull.

7.   Their political pull is undisputed.

8.   What we have now is political pull, with our tax dollars going to states where senators have a long tenure.