And some of those lawyers are making huge sums, transforming an influential profession into what some critics call "a new political class" with enormous clout.

She has enormous clout because she brings in the folks who offer the jobs.

Behind Japan's hard line on the whales is growing nationalism, long-running insecurity about food imports, and a fishing industry that has enormous political clout.

Sawyer thought that the premises were in keeping with the enormous clout of their occupant.

Thanks to the inevitable concentration of the industry into a few large firms, owners and managers acquire enormous political clout.

Since residents of places like New Square tend to vote as a bloc, they have enormous political clout.

We want to attack it using their enormous clout around the world.

"They are now in a largely irrelevant grouping with other people, some of whom support Lisbon, and have lost enormous clout in the process."

The bill means millions of dollars for the studios, which have enormous clout on Capitol Hill.

At the zenith of their power, these unknown, unelected people have enormous clout.