The General Secretariat is the Foundation's executive apparatus.

The Turcoman Kizilbash remained an important part of the Safavid executive apparatus.

Oakeshott argues that in modern times the conception of the state as universitas has taken hold, primarily as a result of the extension of the executive apparatus of civil rule.

In many cases, deportation is generally done either by the government's executive apparatus, and as such is often subject to a simpler legal process (or none), with reduced or no right to trial, legal representation or appeal due to the subject's lack of citizenship.

Last month in St. Andrews, Scotland, the governments proposed a sequence of deadlines, starting Friday, for the Democratic Unionists and Sinn Fein to agree to share power in an executive apparatus that would take over most governmental powers starting next March.

International documents reflect that the Belarusian courts that are subject to an authoritarian executive apparatus, routinely disregard the rule of law and exist to rubber-stamp decisions made outside the courtroom; this is tantamount to the de facto non-existence of courts as impartial judicial forums.