Rather than use his party's parliamentary numbers to push through reform, Mr Yudhoyono has stuck with a timid consensus style, building a bigger, weaker six-party coalition than he needs.
She and other Islamic feminists believe that by fighting for women's rights within Islam, using the very same texts and doctrines that have proved so oppressive, women may be able to push through reform without being told that they have been indoctrinated by Western infidels.
Mr Mahuad has also demonstrated an ability to strike the political deals necessary to push through economic reform.
It is difficult, though, to push through economic reform in recipient countries if the impression is of policy made on the hoof.
The finance minister, Grzegorz Kolodko, is doing better than markets expected but will struggle to push through the reform of public finances that Poland sorely needs.
It will give the government a chance to push through a reform that is more or less cost free and is popular with almost everyone - the exception being specialist libel lawyers.
In New York, Senator Alfonse D'Amato lost despite a hefty infusion of funds from Wall Street, which wanted him to push through banking reform in his post as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.
Mr Koizumi, the prime minister, desperately wants to push this reform through the upper house this summer, after winning in the lower house by only five votes earlier this month.
At the start of his first term, Obama's pick to lead the Treasury Department, Timothy Geithner, emerged from a tough confirmation fight in the wake of recession to help push through Wall Street reform as well as the banking and auto industry rescues.
It was absolutely just as important to push through Wall Street reform to ensure that the kinds of things that led to the great recession, that led to the near collapse of our financial markets, could not happen again, and that taxpayers would not be on the hook when institutions failed.
Europe could the push through budgetary and structural reform against a background of global expansion.
Since the government no longer has a majority there (it would need 35 of the 69 seats), how is it going to push its reform proposals through parliament?
In that time he has managed to push through a sweeping education reform intended to tackle some of the outdated and corrupt practices which have held back Mexican education for decades.
His comments come as President Obama is pressing Congress to push through a comprehensive bill to reform the nation's ailing health care system this year.
Obama's willingness to lose the elections in order to push through his radical health care reform package demonstrated his commitment to implementing his policies at all costs.
And because of its recent failure to push through a comprehensive tax-reform package, he says, the government will have to rely on selling state assets and issuing bonds to balance its books.
Toledo was able to push through several reforms, including tax reform and a pending free trade agreement with the United States.
Mr Putin had plenty on his plate already: his government is trying to push a radical income-tax reform through parliament, decide on an economic policy and restore central authority over Russia's 89 regions and republics.
This is why Mr Sarkozy's pension reform, which he wants to push through by the autumn, is critical.
Mr Bush failed to reform pensions, but he did push through No Child Left Behind, the biggest change to schools for a generation.
If the ECB gives the impression that it will do the minimum to abate the bond-market panic, it would increase the pressure on Italy's politicians to support a reform-minded cabinet and to push through the right policies quickly.
Even if Silvio Berlusconi has the will to reform does he have the credibility to push change through?
Mr Gonzalez's reform-minded finance minister, Federico Zayas, tried again to push some economic measures through Congress after the failed coup in May, but got nowhere.
In America, by some measures the least compliant of all, the incorporation-friendly states and business groups opposing reform continue to have the upper hand, despite valiant attempts by Senator Carl Levin to push through legislation that would require the registration of beneficial owners.
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