Here in a hub of immigration, where even the smallest ethnic groups cluster together and assert their identity to win clout and find comfort, New York's Japanese are unusual in many ways.
Presidential candidates have used these PACs to contribute money to elected officials in order to gain clout and possibly win endorsements.
The high-cost marketers lose sales; the low-cost come to dominate markets - and win the clout to get low crude prices.
The US and the Sadrists have been, at best, highly suspicious of each other since the cleric's followers won political clout in Iraq by capturing 40 seats in parliament in national elections two years ago.
For the startups, this was a chance to win valuable clout for their projects.
As Dream On had won them clout in Hollywood, they aimed to pitch one of their ideas to NBC; Insomnia Cafe, about six friends who live and work in New York City, was pitched as a seven-page treatment to the network in December 1993.
Yet Hull rivals, and probably surpasses, Leeds as the British city where league means the most and, although the resurgence of Rovers to provide a second Super League force in the East Riding for the past seven seasons has diluted FC's financial clout, winning a single trophy – that memorable triumph against Leeds at the Millennium Stadium – in more than two decades is a damning statistic.
It gets worse: Hardly a month now passes without an announcement that the World Bank is lending China a ton of low-interest money--say $300 million to clean up a polluted lake--only to watch China turn around a few days later and announce a similar-sized zero-interest loan, or grant, to a poor sub-Saharan nation, winning extra global clout.
Having lost the 2010 Republican primary in her state, she proved her political clout by winning the election as a write-in candidate.
She's been testing out her clout in the primaries, and whether her clout wins some races or loses some races, the big honking important thing (to her, at any rate) is that everybody in the media is raptly paying attention.
