Example sentences of "over the leadership " in BNC.

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1 With Slough absent , Ealing should take over the leadership when they travel to Ottery St Mary to play Exmouth .
2 In retrospect , it appears that Senghor 's strategy was first to reconfirm that his party and its policies continued to have support from the Senegalese people , by giving them real alternatives , and then to enable a young and clearly competent successor to take over the leadership of both the party and the government .
3 It was clear , too , that Kanhai , who had taken over the leadership from Sobers , was coming to the end of his career and that whoever took over from him would have the opportunity for an extended run in the job if he were successful .
4 At the end of the Saturday debate we were in more disarray than at any stage since either coming to power or Margaret Thatcher taking over the leadership .
5 This plan was given a cautious welcome by the Social Democratic and Labour Party , led by Gerry Fitt , John Hume , and Paddy Devlin , which had taken over the leadership of ‘ constitutional ’ nationalist opinion .
6 And there was a new outpouring of rumours about Hitler 's health : that he was ill , mad , blind , had suffered a nervous breakdown , or that as a result of mental illness he had been forced to hand over the leadership of the State to the military , and had been shot .
7 The men were close personal friends and after Disraeli 's resignation in 1880 , Salisbury , as he had then become , took over the leadership of the Conservative Party , and in 1885 became Prime Minister as well as Foreign Secretary .
8 The decision by World Cup winning Wallaby captain Nick Farr-Jones to step down from representative rugby in 1992 because of family and business reasons introduces the question : ‘ Who will take over the leadership reins ’ ?
9 Four years after taking over the leadership of the party , he can still seem shallow and dull .
10 Their common aim is to help introduce a more just and democratic society ; to bring into being the social transformation that was announced by the government as it took over the leadership of the newly independent Zimbabwe in 1980 .
11 What he thought he needed was someone with the public fame to take over the leadership and to hold a candle to the great names of Lloyd George , Austen Chamberlain , Churchill , Birkenhead and Balfour .
12 There was some speculation about alternatives , with some canvassing the claims of Derby and Salisbury and others imploring Lloyd George to take over the leadership and unite the parties in a shotgun wedding , but Austen 's claims were undeniable .
13 This implies that in time the antisemitic ideology will disappear , as a young post-war generation takes over the leadership of the far right .
14 I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 .
15 On taking over the leadership in 1947 he was designated " Chairman " instead of " President " .
16 But it was Arthur G. Tansley ( 1871–1955 ) who took over the leadership of the new approach , proclaiming ecology as the guide to future work in botany in a 1904 paper given to the British Association .
17 The three announced that they had taken over the leadership of the SPLA and accused Garang , who had led the organization since its creation in 1983 , of dictatorial behaviour .
18 With the issue resolved , Roh stepped down as DLP president on Aug. 25 in order to allow Kim Young Sam to take over the leadership prior to the presidential elections .
19 Gurder had turned over the leadership of the Stationeri to Nisodemus .
20 With a ruthless new breed of killers taking over the leadership reigns , the threat to the Roman Catholic community is now higher than it has ever been .
21 POULTON ROYAL took over the leadership of the Wallasey Sunday League second division after recording a splendid 3-2 victory over Harvest .
22 It was Branwell , who suggested that the Harworth parsonage should publish its own magazine , but after the third issue , it was Charlotte who took over the leadership from him .
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