Now they want to increase their clout.
To increase their clout in the battles with cable operators, many cable network companies are in merger mode.
She also intends to push locals to cooperate more to increase their clout when negotiating with regional employers.
But the group's real interest is to increase their clout in the EU by forming a united regional front at summit meetings in Brussels.
"Chasing a huge amount of money, as the Bush campaign is doing, just increases the stake for fund-raisers who can bring in huge sums, and increases their clout and influence".
Policy advocates within the government — including officials representing weak bureaucracies, like those charged with fighting pollution, improving education and broadening women's rights — often seek popular support to increase their clout.
Some 20 of the 27 countries in the European Union have called for changes that would give producers the ability to organize more effectively so as to increase their clout in dealing with supermarket chains and dairy companies.
Chinese leaders were stunned by such opposition and changed their approach, seeking to embed their views more deeply in Hong Kong society, via business interests and media, and thus increase their clout.
Little, a Republican from Queensbury whose upstate district relied on the nearly 13,000 prisoners housed there to meet the minimum population required when it was drawn in 2002, said Democrats were trying to use redistricting to increase their clout.
And it's why their buying chiefs, like Holli Rogers of Net-a-Porter or Kris Kim, the founder of La Garçonne, have increased their clout with fashion designers, like David Neville, a founder of Rag & Bone, which has seen sales on Shopbop soar in recent seasons.
