Trade unions also play a part but have lost clout in recent years, and have been damaged by a corruption scandal over BAWAG, a bank they used to own but had to sell.Corporatism may be out of fashion elsewhere, but in Austria it seems to deliver results.
Still, he seemed to understand jobs in the trades had lost clout in American society.
They suspected he had lost clout in the underworld, living hand to mouth on payments from whomever he was able to scare, according to Ignatius Chinn, a San Francisco police officer and former California Department of Justice agent who spent two years investigating Chow prior to his 1995 conviction.
If they didn't clean up the situation by running him off the yard, making him check into the hole (a.k.a. solitary), or even beat him down and shank him, they would have lost clout and respect in the system, as most convicts call federal prisons.
Certainly, Mr. Malone has lost some clout.
Since Mr. Obama's election, the oil industry has lost some clout in Washington.
Although it may seem that Digg has lost some clout in recent years after failing to sell itself to suitors, the site still has enormous influence online.
The magazine has lost political clout, but it still reaches the elite, says Henning Kornfeld of the Kress Report, which studies the media.
Some observers fear that the agency has lost some clout; under President Clinton, for example, the director was a cabinet member; now he reports to a member of the cabinet.
In January Standard & Poor's, a ratings agency, hammered home how France has lost economic clout by taking away its AAA credit rating.In this section A fistful of dollars Fit to print Hey, big spender Time for a property tax The spectre of comparisons ReprintsThe economy is at the top of many French voters' minds as they prepare for a two-round presidential election in April and May (see article).
