When the cops raid one of the Collyers' dances, Homer instinctively takes a swing at the intruders, "like the swat of a bear's paw but something lazier," and gets a clout to the solar plexus that sends him gasping to the floor.
He got a little clout now, he gotta vet drug dealers properly now.
She then added, "When gay people got a political clout and started to be a social threat to traditional ways of life, then people in the mills started to come down harder".
Only a star of Angelina Jolie Pitt's immense clout could get a film like By the Sea made.
As sole guardian of investments for New York's $150 billion pension fund, he wants to use his considerable financial clout to get a major company to open its books to shareholders, including New York State.
On my last morning in Dublin, O'Faolain uses some of her newly acquired clout to get a dusty employee of the National Library of Ireland to give us an advance peek at the Joyce manuscript recently purchased for $1.5 million at Christie's.
The celebrity card cuts two ways: Jolie Pitt has the clout to get a movie like this greenlit, something few can do.
Nothing conclusive (a cult, after all, is merely a religion that hasn't yet gathered enough clout to get a decent Wikipedia entry), but it was all a bit unnerving.
This may not be a problem for the likes of Hulu or Netflix, both of which certainly have the money and the popularity-driven clout to get a good deal of out the ISPs, but for smaller companies and content producers with smaller audiences, the removal of neutrality guarantees is a potentially fatal blow.
Lord Wigley added: "We have got to get the political clout if we are going to get a fair deal for Wales whatever the outcome of this referendum and that is a central message".
