Some come to power all at once ( Jill Abramson at the helm of the NYTimes).
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Yes, that would be the same Muslim Brotherhood Mr. Obama is helping come to power in Egypt.
President Obama was instrumental in assisting the Muslim Brotherhood emerge from the shadows and come to power.
But Hollande was not an accidental candidate despite the way he has come to power, one commentator said.
China's new leaders have come to power during a serious legitimacy crisis, with a nation eager for political reforms.
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First, Islamist parties are trying to use current democracy in order to abolish it later, when they come to power.
Nor do they want to see the opposition leader, Nawaz Sharif, come to power, since they do not trust him.
But many ordinary Tunisians share the fear that, if radicals took over, the far left or Islamists could come to power.
When the Democrats were able to the come to power, the Republicans would have already shackled them with outrageous levels of debt.
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It would also be the first time in the Arab world that an Islamist president had come to power by democratic means.
With President Obama having come to power pledging "global leadership" on climate change, one might think his administration would be impressed.
Many believe that the army would like to see Mr Khan come to power, and that it may be providing him with help.
They were controlled at the time by the Taliban, who had just come to power with Saudi support and Pakistani support and money.
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Mr Malema's Youth League, who helped Mr Zuma come to power, are keen to deprive him of the second term he desperately wants.
Reformists have come to power in a relatively fair election, but the democratic process, as it now exists, pretty much stops at parliament's gates.
The establishment -- the bureaucracy, the military, the intelligence services and the business community -- clearly doesn't want to see the Islamists come to power.
Having come to power through a party convention rather than a popular vote, he is under pressure to confirm his mandate in a general election.
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And that is because whenever the hard left has come to power, they have enforced their utopian vision of society by means of a reign of terror.
Moreover, Mr Estrada has come to power through a reasonably open electoral process, and one that allowed his two predecessors to assume their office peacefully and democratically.
Karzai, in his efforts to mollify his restive fellow-Pashtuns, has made conciliatory gestures to the Taliban which have alienated Tajiks and Uzbeks who helped him come to power.
Ms Tymoshenko said Russia could not come to terms with the fact that a new President, Viktor Yushchenko, and a new government had come to power in Ukraine.
Typically, when Republican mayors have managed to come to power, it has been because their independence provides them with some credibility in promising reform and taming big government.
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Other nations stand to get similar treatment if only they replace their present autocrats with new ones - provided the latter are prepared to come to power via elections.
The BJP and its allies thus face a formidable task to come to power this time, though divisions within Congress and the United Front will make things easier for them.
Both Mr Chaudhry and Mr Sharif have won popularity for standing up to a dictator, whereas Mr Zardari is despised for cutting a deal with him to come to power.
Having come to power with a pledge to improve the lives of the impoverished black majority, Mr Mandela knows that the ANC government has fallen far short on its promises.
America, Britain and France have long preferred to sustain friendly autocrats like Mr Mubarak than risk letting Islamists and other potentially unfriendly groups come to power through the ballot box.
The rise of a charismatic leader who used an election to come to power, but then proceeded to dismantle his country's democratic institutions prompted U.S. diplomats to broaden efforts to push democracy.
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