clout 復習
Former Foreign Minister and Lower House Speaker Nobutaka Machimura has died, a Diet source said Monday. He was 70.
（中略）
During his years with the LDP, Machimura wielded political clout and once led the party’s largest faction, the same one to which former Prime Ministers Yoshiro Mori and Yasuo Fukuda belonged.
記事を読んでみて気になったのは“clout”です。“clout”は「《略式》（政治的）勢力、影響力」とありました。「『ジーニアス英和辞典第4版』大修館書店」また、LDOCE には“power or the authority to influence other people's decisions ”と記されています。（faith）
