Professor Kavakci, a former lawmaker who was shouted out of Parliament in 1999 when she arrived wearing a head scarf, even asserts that an expanded Erdogan presidency would make Turkey "more pluralistic" and "more democratic". Mr. Erdogan has brought dignity to veiled Turkish women by gradually rescinding the laws that barred them from state university campuses and jobs in the Civil Service.
In 2004, however, the reputation came into question when McCain, after rejecting John Kerry's offer of an expanded Vice-Presidency, transformed himself almost overnight from the President's most severe Republican critic to his most valuable defender.
Should America continue to provide humanitarian aid to Africa, under programs that were expanded under the presidency of George W. Bush?
And 60 percent said the war that Mr. Obama supported and expanded during his presidency was not worth the human toll or the financial cost.
Obama was a critic of the act before his election but Levison believes the government's willingness to push that authority has only expanded under his presidency.
The president, David Warren, increased admission standards in 1985, engaged students in a "live-in" presidency, expanded media exposure and established a National Colloquium focused on the liberal arts.
Sunday's elections were a first test for Erdogan since he won reelection under a new system of government that gave the presidency expanded powers.
Just as tragically, U.S. programs addressing the crisis of HIV/AIDS -- admirably expanded during the presidency of George W. Bush -- were nonetheless made to counsel abstinence and oppose the use of condoms and other safe sex strategies, leaving women and young people all the more vulnerable to the ravages of the epidemic.
But over the years, the roles of government and the presidency have expanded.
Announcing this last night, the academy said it had expanded greatly under his presidency.
