And I'm not sure they added anything to her powerful brand clout.
Even so, this 1950s melodrama – as underscored by Todd Haynes' modern riff, Far from Heaven – offers smart insights into the American class system and carries a powerful emotional clout way beyond the usual limitations of its genre.
The resurgence of the once-staid Savile Row and the powerful international clout of megabrands such as Burberry have played key parts also, but without the stream of new names who've left their mark on the MAN runway, menswear today would be a very different proposition.
In multilateral deals, poor countries can piggyback on powerful countries' negotiating clout; in bilateral deals, they're on their own.
It was hardly that: Deng was a far more powerful figure, whose clout allowed him to overwhelm considerable opposition to his policies from party conservatives.
Now it is a technologically advanced democracy with cultural clout and powerful economic ties across the region.
Now, sure: Powerful people have more clout.
And Nevada's Republican leadership not only did not include a powerful Senate leader, what clout it had disappeared in a flurry of scandals.
Although N.G.O.'s and governments are often powerful, they rarely have the clout of markets.
But the Basques did not enjoy the clout of a powerful international intermediary like President Clinton to broker their talks with Madrid.
And, almost as a matter of course, it represented the victory of powerful industry interests with political clout in the Bush administration.
