While there was time to plan, there was no time for follow through and hopes raised for internally engineered reform were dashed.
Not to oversimplify: McCain is hitting the need for transparency, budget cuts and efficiencies in most programs, while Obama sees the credence of government involvement especially when it engineers reform.
The case was initially seen by many as an important move by Mr. Erdogan's government to engineer democratic reforms by taming the military, which has carried out three coups in modern Turkey's history and had been regarded as the guardian of the secular system laid down by Turkey's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Xi Jinping will have to negotiate between competing interests if he hopes to engineer ambitious reforms to the country's state-owned assets.
According to him, Deng and his lieutenants, such as Wan Li, engineered the reforms.
Operating through consensus, compromise, and persuasion, Deng engineered important reforms in virtually all aspects of China's political, economic, and social life.
The Ecuadorean president's left wing allies in Nicaragua and Venezuela have engineered similar reforms since the turn of the millennium.
In the coup de grace against Venezuelan democracy, last year he engineered a "reform" that permits him to seek the presidency indefinitely.
Hugely self-confident, he managed to turn around the corrupt service and engineered some remarkable reforms.
Together the lovers engineered sweeping political reforms, creating the freest press in Europe, abolishing ancient privileges, rationalizing the bureaucracy and raising the young prince according to Rousseauist principles.
One of his central arguments had been that it was wrong for Australia to engineer such a major reform of its economy before the outcome of Copenhagen was known.
