The elite are then left to dominate national institutions and the governmental apparatus.

The 65-year-old leader, who is also First Secretary of the Communist Party, has assumed personal control of the entire governmental apparatus.

As Hoveida garnered more experience, opportunities within Iran's governmental apparatus were becoming available to him.

Even though Moses has been out of power for a long time, the governmental apparatus that he wielded is still mostly intact.

The slight shrinking in the number of senior posts is evidently part of an effort to streamline the cumbersome governmental apparatus.

The move came as part of an overall effort to decentralize the capital's governmental apparatus.

I think everyone in the governmental apparatus is here, with mates and guests.

With her proton gun, the alien could take out the entire governmental apparatus of the planet.

Secluded from their respective governmental apparatus and the public, the participants were supposed to be able to engage in discussions without any disturbances.

The terms infrastructural and despotic have been used "to identify the two different ways in which a governmental apparatus acquires and uses centralized power."