More pertinently, he is the son of a Fijian chieftain, and thus a man with political clout.
The usual Saturday turkey farmer, a man with more clout, dropped in to grab the Thanksgiving trade.
To that end, the prime minister gave wide latitude to his foreign secretary, William Hague, a man with the clout of a former Conservative leader and one of only two current cabinet members to have run a department of state before.
Dr. Turner, one of Mr. Goodsell's many Connecticut ancestors, was a surgeon general of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, a man with rank and clout enough to be on social terms with General Washington.
It's no knock against Mike Nichols to observe that, throughout most of the 1960s, '70s and '80s, Papp was the man with the most clout, and the most nerve, in the English-speaking theater world.
Spearheaded by Simon Cowell – arguably the only man with the necessary clout and contacts to organise an emergency charity single in a matter of days – Everybody Hurts featured, among others, Westlife, Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke and James Blunt, none of whom appear to believe that social usefulness should extend to the content of their songs.
Only a handful of those men have clout with Khamenei, however, and there are no women in his inner circle.
Does it have to end like this? Flannery is a conservationist with clout, class and vision, and could be just the man to tell the whole story of creation again, this time with a happy ending (perhaps).
Film-makers with clout could circumvent the system, but when most directors are straight, white men making films about straight, white men, we don't tend to get a very diverse lineup of films".
But that night, when Mr. Agnew elaborated on the theme, one adult in his audience in Hammond clouted a young man with long hair.
That same year, Mr. Azoff decided to "fight clout with clout," as he puts it.
