Now all the top army posts are filled by men who owe their jobs to him personally.

About half of Africa's leaders owe their jobs to coups.

These people, after all, owe their jobs to the current system.

Many are elected or appointed officials and owe their jobs to their political connections.

Or across the street from the minister to whom they owe their jobs?

Some 300,000 people work in state-owned enterprises, and many owe their jobs to political patronage.

And they may be inclined: The superintendents still owe their jobs, at least in part, to the elected boards.

And more than 146,000 residents, almost 9 percent of the state's work force, owe their jobs to tourism.

"I heard they were hiring buses for the meeting, bringing in people like principals and supervisors, who, of course, some owe their jobs to her."

Current lawmakers owe their jobs to the present system.