Example sentences of "leader of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bundles of entries may only be transferred to higher level groups and only by the leader of the higher group . |
| 2 | The overall leader of the various groups , ‘ George ’ has been forced to leave the country , and replacing him will be difficult . |
| 3 | Pascal Lissouba , leader of the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy ( UPADS ) , was victorious in presidential elections held in August , UPADS having emerged as the largest party , but without a clear majority in either chamber , in the legislative elections in June and July . |
| 4 | Wilde , depicted as the leader of the aesthetic movement , with its unnatural taste for the sensual and the erotic , was pilloried in court as a foreign parasite . |
| 5 | Roberto Robaina , a politburo member and leader of the young Communists , stated that Aldana had engaged in a " lifestyle above those of the population " . |
| 6 | This interpretation is supported by a letter written by McCann , before the march , to Michael Farrell , leader of the Young Socialists in Belfast , in which he gave an account of the meeting between NICRA and the DHAC : |
| 7 | Clearly , he was the idol and leader of the young men . |
| 8 | , John ( c. 1206–1258 ) , justiciar of Ireland and a leader of the political revolution of 1258 , was the son of Geoffrey Fitzpeter , justiciar of England ( 1198–1213 ) and fourth Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , by his second marriage , to Aveline , daughter of Roger de Clare , third Earl of Hertford [ q.v. ] , and widow of William de Munchency . |
| 9 | It was such men who had to be galvanised into action by a pressing personal letter from the leader of the political interest to which they adhered , and , as Panmure was advised , it was ‘ getting such good friends to take a troublesome jaunt on them ’ which would ‘ save a sett of friends from being either affronted or over run ’ . |
| 10 | Ong polled 35 per cent of the votes while his strongest opponent , Harun Idris , endorsed by the former Industry Minister Razaleigh Hamza , the leader of the political faction trying to oust Mahathir [ see p. 35459 ] , polled 28 per cent . |
| 11 | In his position as the British Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan announced , in July 1961 , that the British government wished to negotiate joining the Common Market , i.e. the European Economic Community , but the French President , de Gaulle , fearing that France would lose her position as the leader of the six member countries , was not keen on the British , entry , despite the agreement of the other five nations , The special relationship that Britain had with the U.S.A. was also disliked by de Gaulle and , in any event , the French government wanted special provisions to protect French agriculture , so he effectively blocked Britain 's entry into the E.E.C . |
| 12 | According to Mustafa Dzhemilev , leader of the Crimean Tatars ' Majlis , 600 members of the local militia on Oct. 1 forced their way into the Krasnyy Ray settlement near Alushta ( where returning Tatars had started work independently on the construction of a camp after waiting in vain for local authorities to allocate land for the purpose ) , injuring several residents and arresting 26 . |
| 13 | It was thought that Iraq had chosen to respond to the appeal from a friendly leader of the Non-aligned Movement , rather than be seen as giving in to Western pressure . |
| 14 | Under an agreement ( the so-called Peshawar Accord ) reached by a majority of the mujaheddin groups in Peshawar , Pakistan , on April 24 [ see p. 38847 ] , power in the new state would rest in the hands of the 51-member Islamic Jihad Council ( IJC ) , headed by interim President Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi , but the IJC was to be replaced by an interim government ( headed by Burhanuddin Rabbani , leader of the moderate Jamiat-i Islami ) in late June . |
| 15 | Burhanuddin Rabbani , leader of the moderate Sunni Moslem Jamiat-i-Islami , took over the presidency of the interim government on June 28 from Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi , despite earlier suggestions that Mujjaddedi was seeking to go back on the April 24 Peshawar power-sharing accord reached by seven Sunni Moslem mujaheddin groups in Pakistan following the overthrow of the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime [ see pp. 38847 ; 38915 ] . |
| 16 | The leader of the Southern Society , Pavel Pestel — executed , not exiled — was the son of the notorious Governor-General mentioned earlier ; G. S. Batenkov , himself of Siberian origin , acted as a close personal aide to Speranskii during the latter 's governorship ; Baron V.I . |
| 17 | He became leader of the northern branch of the Communist Party in December 1945 ; there was always latent rivalry between Kim and Pak Hon-yong , the leader of the southern branch . |
| 18 | THE LEADER of the eight miners trapped for 15 hours half a mile underground told yesterday of their joy at seeing the first rescuer . |
| 19 | In Germany , for example , it was seen as a road by which a reconstructed German state could win rehabilitation and acceptance from its neighbours as an independent , equal and responsible partner — an attitude which , for example , was to lie behind much of the foreign policy strategy of Konrad Adenauer , the first leader of the Federal Republic of Germany , in the 1950s . |
| 20 | Hyon Ju Ok , the leader of the radical labour group Chonnohyop , was arrested on June 14 after police surrounded the Myongdong Cathedral in Seoul where he and several other dissidents had taken refuge in mid-May . |
| 21 | Portuguese cavalry officer and a leader of the Armed Forces Movement , the group of junior officers which overthrew the dictatorship of Marcelo Caetano in the bloodless revolution of 1974 . |
| 22 | The document , drawn up by the ECOWAS mediation committee chaired by Oumar Sey , Foreign Affairs Minister of The Gambia , was signed by Charles Taylor , leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , the rival Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( INPFL ) leader Prince Yormie Johnson , and Gen. Hezekiah Bowen , leader of the Armed Forces of Liberia ( AFL ) , constituted from the rump of former President Doe 's pre-civil war national army . |
| 23 | Ante Paradjik , vice-president and leader of the armed wing of the extreme right-wing Croatian Party of Rights ( HOS ) and a strong opponent of Tudjman , was shot dead by Croatian police at a road block on Sept. 21 . |
| 24 | Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating agreed to restore Australian military assistance to Fiji , suspended since 1987 , after a private meeting with the new Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka , the leader of the two coups . |
| 25 | Mann , the leader of the new grouping , said that henceforth no Akali Dal would be known after any individual and that " now our aim is one , the right of self-determination for Sikhs " . |
| 26 | The evident ascendancy of conservatives , who succeeded in getting one of their number elected as leader of the new party , appeared to bode ill for President Mikhail Gorbachev , the CPSU general secretary , at the crucial 28th CPSU congress , due to open only a fortnight later . |
| 27 | Ernest Bevin , leader of the new force in the unions , the general workers , resented the attempts of intellectuals like Cripps to elaborate a new Party Policy which ignored decisions taken by the Trades Union Congress . |
| 28 | Gen. Chaovalit Yongchaiyut , former Army C.-in-C. and leader of the New Aspiration Party ( NAP ) , had reportedly been planning to stand in Bangkok Constituency 2 , but announced on Jan. 22 that he would be standing in Nonthaburi province . |
| 29 | Archbishop Fisher accepted the argument and became the enthusiastic leader of the new movement . |
| 30 | Ozawa , 50 , who was widely seen as seen as the real leader of the new group , firmly committed himself to comprehensive political reform . |