That may reduce the clout of Venezuela's oil-rich president, Hugo Chávez, in the region.
China's sudden prominence, according to this view, will reduce the clout of America, Europe and other rich democracies in the developing world.
He may leave medical school heavily in debt, but after a lifetime of earning, saving and investing, he can probably amass $1m.Some people hoped that the financial crisis would reduce the clout of the wealthy.
That would reduce the clout of the ultraconservative Islamists who have so far come in second-place in the first two rounds of the voting, winning as much as 25 percent of the seats by most estimates.
This should reduce the clout of the IMF and the stigma of borrowing from an international body.Brad Ruting SydneySIR –The Economist's cover of November 15th featured a globe with Iceland wiped from the face of the earth.
And more makers of e-readers may mimic Amazon's recent decision to let third-party developers create software for its line of Kindles.Book publishers are quietly hoping that Apple's entry into e-books will help to reduce the clout of Amazon: the Kindle has 60% of the e-reader market, according to Forrester, a research firm.
Current White House science adviser Jack Marburger eliminated two deputy positions in the office in 2001, which some critics say reduced the clout of the science adviser's team.
Or should it settle for reducing the executives' clout by merely scrapping sweetheart deals?
Under pressure from the great and the good, both the government and the opposition have agreed to introduce amendments only for the sake of clarification, and not to reduce the watchdogs' clout.
In this context, the need to reduce the political clout of the financial sector and democratize the political funding system takes on an urgency that can hardly be exaggerated.
