By the 1980s, Suharto's grip on power was maintained by the emasculation of civil society, engineered elections, and use of the military's coercive powers.
He quashed both elections and engineered the election of the learned and talented cardinal Stephen Langton.
In 2010, Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., a Chicago priest who had served under Bernardin, was in line to be elected president of the USCCB when conservatives engineered the election of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan instead, a maneuver seen as the definitive end of Bernardin's influence.
They then engineered the election of Joe Straus, above, a decidedly centrist politician from San Antonio, to the speaker's office.
After the genocide in 1994, Rwanda's authoritarian president, Paul Kagame, engineered the election of the world's highest proportion of women in a legislature.
It was Mr. Maluf, now once again a candidate for mayor, who plucked Mr. Pitta (pronounced PEET-uh), then his financial secretary, from obscurity four years ago and single-handedly engineered his election.
He engineered the election of a governor and a mayor, and even had access to the White House before insurgent Democrats turned on him in the era of reforms, municipal union power and television.
A few years ago, concerned that Arab teachers were spreading Wahhabism, President Shaimiyev engineered the election of a moderate, Gousman G. Iskhakov, to head Tatarstan's Muslim Spiritual Board.
