"To have more clout with the US, said we don't want to just retaliate in agriculture."

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But no basileus has anything like the clout that the Mycenaean kings did, and of course we don't hear of any of them who have even the temporary special power that Agamemnon has.

但是君主们不同于迈锡尼的国王们,他们没有实权,当然我们从没听说过,他们中有哪一个能像阿伽门农那样暂时掌权

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But his clout doesn't extend to the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which sometimes overturns decisions by Beaumont's left-leaning judges.

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He says you don't have the clout that you had politically in this town in past debates.

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"We've had these discussions and we haven't had the clout as a company to pull this off before, " Mr. Crowley said.

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