And the I.M.F. itself is beginning to fight back, an awkward role for an institution dominated by Ph.D. economists who are unaccustomed to being openly challenged.

The secular Pancacita principle was developed by National Education Institute, an institution dominated by the Communist Party.

Once stained as an institution dominated by racial politics, it would take years to restore the university's reputation, if it could be restored at all.

In this capacity, he called a synod in 1604 in order to suppress the confraternities and replace them with similar institutions dominated by clerics.

As a career soldier, he is said to be genuinely popular in the military, an institution dominated by the ethnic Jordanian East Bank minority.

"The money is coming from groups whose primary interest is to weaken government - a carefully calculated effort to go after those institutions dominated by Democrats."

He has seen the Senate change from an institution dominated by Southern Democrats to one in which power has become disbursed.

In its attempt to satirise an institution supposedly dominated by tedium, repetition and pointlessness, it perversely contrives to consist of little but these things itself.

He is also something of a throwback in an institution dominated by lawyers, businessmen, academics and other highly educated professionals.