Sentence examples for constitutional engineers from inspiring English sources

Mandelson, an assiduous European, has toiled to the very opposite goal, being one of those Blairite constitutional engineers who helped weaken the distinctiveness of the Westminster Parliament and make modern Britain a better fit for European Union colonization if, or more likely when, it happens.

There has been a long-running debate amongst constitutional engineers between those who favour the proportional representation of parties (usually via PR-Closed List systems) and post-election power-sharing (Lijphart) and those who favour attempting to induce pre-election inter-ethnic 'vote-pooling' (Horowitz) as a more effective and stable method of governing divided societies.

Despite an 80% popular mandate measured in parliamentary votes, she is barred from the highest office due to an arbitrary constitutional prohibition engineered by the former junta.

The provisional leadership that replaced him engineered constitutional changes to enhance parliamentary powers at the expense of the executive.

Nemtsov had become somewhat cynical about the fate of his country under Putin, who engineered constitutional changes before his 2012 reelection that should allow him to remain at the Kremlin's helm until 2024.

After the death of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini, in 1989, Rafsanjani engineered a constitutional amendment that eliminated the position of Prime Minister and transferred power to an executive President.

The country's wiliest politician, Hashemi Rafsanjani, who engineered that constitutional amendment, tried as President to open a commercial channel to the West in 1995, by offering the U.S. oil company Conoco a billion-dollar oil-and-gas development contract.

Kim Jong-un will probably take over as the commission's chairman, analysts in Seoul said, or engineer a constitutional revision so that he can leave the post permanently vacant, to honor his father, and create a new ruling agency that he would lead.

The Muslim Brotherhood has vowed to face down Egypt's ruling generals in a "life or death" struggle over the country's political future, after declaring that its candidate had won the presidential election and would refuse to accept the junta's last-ditch attempts to engineer a constitutional coup.

To protect themselves from the banks' wrath for doing so, politicians engineered a constitutional amendment that strictly constrained political contributions from the wealthy.

Last Monday the White House issued its 'revised' refugee ban engineered to pass constitutional muster.