Example sentences of "as leader " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the girls ' event , Catherine Wittenberg ( Kent ) , consolidated her position as leader of the Reebok 12 and under Grand Prix table by reaching the final , but missed out on maximum points when she lost to Claire Sewell ( York ) 6–4 6–1 . |
| 2 | BRIGHTON : In six verbose years as leader of his party , Neil Kinnock has not a memorable phrase to his credit . |
| 3 | Ron Todd ‘ If we are going to have a comedian as leader let's at least go for Dennis Skinner or Ben Elton . ’ |
| 4 | And Shimon Peres is eager to avoid a showdown which may lead to his ouster as leader of the Labour Party . ’ |
| 5 | — Andrew Crisp from Winchester , during economic policy debate ‘ Any party that has Dennis Skinner as its chairman and Neil Kinnock as leader , badly needs a hero . ’ |
| 6 | BLACKPOOL — Since her first as leader of the Conservative Party , delivered here at the Winter Gardens in 1975 , Margaret Thatcher and her team of speechwriters have made of the conference speech a minor art form . |
| 7 | She won one victory in January 1981 when a palpable ‘ wet ’ , Norman St John-Stevas , was removed as Leader of the House ( where he had been a conspicuous success ) , while younger men like Leon Brittan and Kenneth Baker were promoted , the latter having been one of Heath 's campaign managers in 1975 . |
| 8 | In early 1983 , therefore , a somewhat difficult pact was concluded , the so-called ‘ Alliance ’ , between the Liberals and the SDP , in which they would agree to choose one Alliance candidate in the different constituencies , and fight a joint election campaign with Roy Jenkins as leader and putative Prime Minister . |
| 9 | Francis Pym assumed this post , Norman St John-Stevas replaced Pym as Leader of the House of Commons , and Mark Carlisle in turn took over Education from Mr Stevas . |
| 10 | The imbalance in coverage stems partly from the Prime Minister 's engagement in more newsworthy activities and partly from the fact that , as leader of the government , he or she is newsworthy . |
| 11 | The British Prime Minister is inevitably pushed to play a major public role — as head of the government in Parliament , as public spokesman for the government , as leader of the nation on visits abroad , and as chairman and summarizer of Cabinet discussions . |
| 12 | Lloyd George is out of the running for some time and I suppose Herbert Samuel will act as leader in the House of Commons . |
| 13 | With the Edwardian figure of Macmillan as leader of the party and the government , a man who had begun his career by advocating a dirigiste stance against the liberal economic tendencies of the Baldwin-Chamberlain era , the Conservatives looked to an interventionist strategy to stave off political and economic reversals . |
| 14 | Given the small nucleus of genuine international players at Scotland 's disposal , his influence as leader and player will be crucial in the Five Nations Championship . |
| 15 | ‘ What I find unbearable and can not brook as leader is those who , after we make that decision , will deviate and not comply with our decision , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Blaize had been deposed as leader of the New National Party which he led to a landslide electoral victory under US auspices in 1984 and had defiantly formed a new grouping . |
| 17 | His predecessor as leader of China 's billion people , Mao Zedong , may have been the maker of many of those revolutions , but Mr Deng was the one who often cleaned up the debris and put China back on its feet . |
| 18 | As it is , she can now feel a little safer in one of her jobs , as leader of the Conservative party . |
| 19 | IT IS a pity that Mikhail Gorbachev survived the move to oust him as leader of the Communist Party last month . |
| 20 | In his first year as leader , Rajiv Gandhi threatened to throw out the thugs . |
| 21 | In April 1988 he was sent there as leader of a team of 400 construction workers . |
| 22 | Bevin , with the support of the major trade unions , dealt brutally with George Lansbury and his pacifist reservations , effectively forcing him to quit as leader of the Labour Party . |
| 23 | On 28 April , Terence O'Neill resigned and his cousin Major James Chichester-Clark was elected as leader of the Unionist Parliamentary Party and hence Prime Minister . |
| 24 | The occasion of Macleod 's fury was the process by which Lord Home had come to be chosen as Leader of the party and thereby Prime Minister in succession to Harold Macmillan . |
| 25 | The Nuremberg Trials lifted the scales from the eyes of many Germans , and later OMGUS surveys reported that only one in eight ( 12 per cent ) of those questioned in the American Zone recalled trusting Hitler as Leader up to the end of the war , while 35 per cent claimed never to have trusted him and a further ( 6 per cent to have kept faith in him only until the outbreak of war . |
| 26 | But yesterday it emerged that the four judges had written to Mr Tony Byrne , BAFTA president , saying they had voted for GBH , the Alan Bleasdale drama starring Robert Lindsay as leader of a corrupt city council . |
| 27 | But yesterday it emerged that the four judges had written to Mr Tony Byrne , BAFTA president , saying they had voted for GBH , the Alan Bleasdale drama starring Robert Lindsay as leader of a corrupt city council . |
| 28 | FOR 15 hours on Tuesday Palestinians worldwide were faced with a prospect which few can seriously have thought about before — that of the PLO without Yasser Arafat as leader . |
| 29 | It was like a valedictory speech , possibly the last big statement he would utter as Leader of the Opposition , the opportunity to deliver a personal justification of what he did to try and ensure that Labour 's values joined together with the popular vote to save the party from the political wilderness . |
| 30 | Dr Cunningham said : ‘ The important thing is for Neil to stay on as leader of the party and build on the gains we have made in this election . ’ |