1.   When defaults proliferate, as they do during and after recessions, the two firms wield enormous clout in financial Markets.

2.   And, transformed from mere renters into property taxpayers, they have learned to wield their clout with public officials to get the library, sewers and other benefits.

3.   As the war intensified, blacks rapidly rose through the ranks, wielding political clout within the tribe.

4.   Abdullah wields military clout as the commander of the elite Saudi Arabian National Guard, dedicated to defending the royal family.

5.   Brooks has identified a new social offshoot, a combination of bohemian thinking and bourgeois living that is rising in importance and wielding new clout.

6.   But foreign shareholders, especially American pension funds used to corporate-governance activism at home, will wield growing clout as they buy more shares in overseas firms.

7.   But he can wield significant clout.

8.   But the public transportation unions still wield enormous clout, and are able to shut down the country at any time.

9.   Few tenants wield such clout.

10.   For the rest, the superstars, there was center fielder Dave Henderson, who surprisingly wielded more clout than may have been known at the time.