Affronted, the Koch brothers, whose political spending has made their name a shorthand for special-interest clout, withheld their financial support from Trump.
It's significant as it shows that VR filmmaking can pull in the interest and clout similar to the way traditional film can.
Interest-group clout would help stymie Clinton's proposal, especially once public opinion began to shift away from him.
And, almost as a matter of course, it represented the victory of powerful industry interests with political clout in the Bush administration.
"Our taxes are too high, our schools don't educate our children well enough, unions and other special interests have more clout in the Legislature than the general public," he said in a statement.
We like that idea, too, but the lawmakers could create such an office without a constitutional change that would give special interests even more clout than they already have.
The Treasury, influenced by American financial interests, used its clout over the years to force open economies around the world, so that American banks and companies could spread their wings around the world.
In the eyes of his detractors, Khodorkovsky opposed Kremlin corruption only when Putin's centralization of state power and crackdowns on oligarchs jeopardized his economic interests and political clout.
I did this because we all have issues that we care about most, but progress will be stifled on every big issue until we solve the threshold problem: big-money interests having disproportional clout in our public debates.
The Week's Best Quote: Nate Kontny, an entrepreneur, discusses the importance of luck in his success: "I got lucky a writer with a lot of clout took interest in my project — interest that started because he once worked on a similar project seven years prior, so he understood the challenges I was addressing.
Britain maintained its interest and back-room clout.
