Though for now it still has some clout, the JRP is expected to lose seats in the next lower-house election, due by December 2016.
Even if the two parties break up, Yisrael Beitenu is expected to remain in the coalition, where Lieberman can use his significant political clout to argue against concessions to the Palestinians.
In the US, the number of women-owned businesses is expected to grow 90% in the next five years, and they are increasing in economic clout.
On Wednesday, for example, New York's new Democratic governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, is expected to call for a one-year salary freeze for state workers, a move that would save $200 million to $400 million and challenge labor's traditional clout in Albany.
As was true of America and the dollar a century ago, China's currency does not enjoy anywhere near the clout that could be expected from the size of the Chinese economy.
Council members are expected to have more clout.
Republicans are expected to gain far more congressional clout.
They will now be expected to have the same sort of clout at next year's Olympics in Beijing.
Georgia has been expected to follow that pattern within the next decade or so as the political clout of the state's growing black, Latino and Asian populations increases.
Revisions are expected.However, there is little likelihood that trade unions in China will acquire the clout that some of their counterparts exercise in Western countries.
