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This week, a senior State Department official named Kendall Myers - perhaps freed from the usual decorum by the fact that he is apparently "considering retirement" - offered a blunt critique of the UK's transatlantic clout at an academic event in Washington.

As the ruling coalition's spoiler-in-chief, she typifies rising regional clout at a time when the centre is weakly led.

The deal with NBCU pushed Comcast to a new level in size and clout, at a time when most media companies were slimming down to focus on what they did best.

Organizing Toyota would also bolster the U.A.W.'s diminished clout at a time when Detroit's Big Three are cutting jobs, closing factories and expecting concessions from the union in ongoing contract negotiations.

But the UK does have plenty of international political clout at a time when Brussels has indicated a willingness to try to seize control of the health and safety regime offshore.

But many believe the Belt and Road initiative is also a geopolitical gambit to boost China's regional clout at a time when Donald Trump's US looks to be stepping back from Asia.

"We carry no clout at all".

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Why? Because, sadly, it was not a real priority; and because the main lobby group, the Human Rights Campaign, is so enmeshed in the Democratic party establishment, it has no clout at all.Fifty-six Democratic senators voted to repeal DADT; three (including Harry Reid, in a procedural manoeuvre) voted against.

With volume comes clout: last year, at an apple-marketing conference organised by the US Apple Association, McDonald's director of quality systems announced that if growers wanted to work with the company, they would have to cultivate more of two varieties of apple in particular: cameo and pink lady.

These days, however, it has no one with clout at home and a rapport with the Kremlin.