In the final tally, there is no question that President Bush did a masterful job engineering victories for the Republican Party.
Mirnyi won his partner's praise for engineering the victory, his 10th Grand Slam doubles title, including four mixed doubles crowns.
When George W. Bush won Florida by just 537 votes, and with it the election, Democrats accused her of engineering his victory.
Though Mr. Ozawa appears to be unpopular with the public — he faces a criminal investigation into a political financing scandal — he is credited within the ruling Democratic Party with engineering its victory in elections last year, and still commands a large following.
Expectations of his performance were so low that, unless he committed one of his notorious malapropisms, he could win merely by showing up.In this section Gene genies On the trail The battle of Boston Quick, call a doctor Heretical thoughts about independent voters Engineering a victory Vivat Regina Come back, Ed Murrow Chucking out Chuck? ReprintsYet nothing quite panned out as expected.
In his first year in office Mr Thaksin severely undermined the credibility and effectiveness of both the National Counter Corruption Commission and the Election Commission, by engineering a victory against the former when he successfully appealed against a corruption conviction, and bringing the latter closer into his fold by replacing all the outgoing members when their terms expired.
However, there are many who believe the hardliners will never allow anyone other than their own man to become the president - even if that means engineering a victory and risking mass street protests again - like in 2009.
Less noticed, but equally unsuited to the demands of modern life, is London's sewer system.Built after a string of cholera epidemics in the 19th century by Joseph Bazalgette, an engineer in the heroic Victorian mould, the capital's 14,000-mile sewer network was a triumph of engineering and a victory for public health.
After engineering Netanyahu's victory in Israel in 1996, Mr. Finkelstein increasingly concentrated on international elections.
