He has dominated post-communist Armenia; in 1991 he was its first democratically elected president.
Yet turnout in the election was a record low of 71%, and the two big parties that have dominated post-war politics were humiliated.
He was a member of the now-defunct Christian Democrat party, which dominated post-war Italian politics until the 1990s, and he held ministerial posts in several governments.
The topic which dominated post-Ryder Cup media duties for the European team had nothing to do with the concession of the trophy for the first time since 2008.
His work was in severe contrast to the neo-realist school which had dominated post-war cinema, employing a surgeon-like precision to analyse the intellectual disquiet that seemed fiercely at odds with the hedonistic nature of the times.
Mrs. Merkel's Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats have dominated post-World War II politics, most often relying on smaller parties to bring either a right- or left-leaning tinge to big-party, centrist politics.
Despite a decade of economic growth that has averaged 7.6% per year, a sharp slowdown since 2012 has badly hurt the party, run by the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has dominated post-independence politics in India.
In fact, during a time of widespread protests about the failure of government to provide services to the poor, the A.N.C., which has dominated post-apartheid politics, managed to maintain the loyalty of most constituencies.
His comments went unremarked upon by the three main candidates – incumbent Dilma Rousseff of the Workers party, former environment minister Marina Silva and Aécio Neves of the pro-business Social Democratic party – though his insults quickly dominated post-debate discussion on social networks.
Although such calls are hardly universal and there is no threat of an imminent coup, the growing murmurs that military intervention may be the only solution to the collapse of public security can be heard across the country, especially in circles opposed to the Islamists who have dominated post-Mubarak elections.
After the uprising that pushed Mr. Mubarak from power, they came to believe that the revolution had gone off track, and especially that Mr. Morsi, the country's first freely elected president, had failed to transcend his roots in the Muslim Brotherhood, which had dominated post-revolutionary elections.
