At the CIA and at the State Department, Ahmed Chalabi, the INC's leader, is viewed as the ineffectual head of a self-inflated and corrupt organization skilled at lobbying and public relations, but not much else.

Elizabeth Chapin Patterson was a devotee of the eclectic Indian religious leader Meher Baba ( born Merwan Sheriar Irani ; his chosen name means “ compassionate father ”), the author, among much else, of Discourses and God Speaks.

When he got there, he was informed that a series of telephone calls had been made by senior opposition figures ( and some independent TDs ), including Fianna Fáil leader ( and ex-Taoiseach ) Charles Haughey, Brian Lenihan and Sylvester Barrett demanding that the President, as he could constitutionally do where a Taoiseach had ' ceased to retain the support of a majority in Dáil Éireann ', refuse FitzGerald a parliamentary dissolution, forcing his resignation as Taoiseach and enabling the Dáil to nominate someone else for the post.

In 1987, Gordon Wilson became the leader of the provincial Liberal Party when no one else was interested.

At one their gigs at The Black Lion in 1985, they came to the attention of Pat Fish, the leader of the recording band The Jazz Butcher ; he felt Spacemen 3 were " extraordinary " and " like nothing else ".

Al-Arian said as to Shallah, he was " shocked like everyone else in the world ... he became the leader of the jihad movement.

Above all else, he was an energetic and demanding leader who had the ability to invigorate the U. S. Navy's fighting spirit when most required.

The opposition party's deputy leader ( assuming that post is occupied ) is often chosen for this role unless ( s ) he plans to run in the leadership election, in which case someone else would be chosen since it would be considered harmful to the election process if the interim leader was to be one of the candidates.

On 4 September 2008, Clarke once again attacked Gordon Brown's performance as leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister, claiming that he only had " months " to improve or else should face a leadership contest.

Throughout the remainder of the 1950s, Eldorado was General Motors ' styling leader, and since GM led the industry in the mid-1950s, where the Eldorado went, everyone else would tend to follow.

By the mid-80s, CIA Director William Casey had taken the practice to the next level: an organized, covert " public diplomacy " apparatus designed to sell a " new product "- Central America-while stoking fear of communism, the Sandinistas, Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, and anyone else considered an adversary during the Ronald Reagan presidential administration.

Lord Addison and Lord Salisbury ( then Lord Cranborne ), the Conservative leader in the House of Lords from 1942 to 1957, both with memories of the troubles leading to the passing of the Parliament Act 1911, they agreed that anything promised in a party's manifesto would eventually pass ; anything else would be subject to full debate.

Introducing himself as the leader of a much larger community, Byron explains that they are rogue telepaths who disavow violence and technology, and having no place else to call home, he requests permission for them to form a colony on the station.

But more than anything else, he is a leader more than a follower " ( March 14, 1989 ).

Once the leader of a trick has played a card, everyone else must follow suit ( play a card of that same suit, if they have one ).

Wilson later acknowledged: " The early AA got its ideas of self-examination, acknowledgment of character defects, restitution for harm done, and working with others straight from the Oxford Group and directly from Sam Shoemaker, their former leader in America, and from nowhere else.

With no one else to take the position, Shamil became the 3rd leader of the Imamate.

The then leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Menzies Campbell, said there should not " be one law for MPs and a different law for everyone else " and that it looked like " Parliament has something to hide ".

Littlejohn responded ( referring to Aaronovitch ): " What else do you expect from an overgrown student union leader who used to be a member of the Communist Party?

Cato, who was the leader of the Pompeians, ensured the escape of his fellow senators and anyone else who desired to leave, then committed suicide, unwilling to accept the clemency of Caesar.

They initially try to barter with Tessic, the colony's leader, but he appears reluctant to part with any of the 80, 000 liters in inventory, which is being held for ' someone else '.

Consider the following strategy profiles: the leader plays Cournot ; the follower plays Cournot if the leader plays Cournot and the follower plays non-Stackelberg if the leader plays Stackelberg and if the leader plays something else, the follower plays an arbitrary strategy ( hence this actually describes several profiles ).

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

Alexios Doukas emerged as a leader of the anti-Latin movement and personally led some skirmishes against the crusaders.

However, the lower-class foot soldiers continued to think of Adhemar as a leader ; some of them claimed to have been visited by his ghost during the siege of Jerusalem, and reported that Adhemar instructed them to hold another procession around the walls.

In some smaller Protestant denominations and independent churches the term bishop is used in the same way as pastor, to refer to the leader of the local congregation, and may be male or female.

Malloum proved himself unable to cope with the FROLINAT and at the end decided his only chance was in coopting some of the rebels: in 1978 he allied himself with the insurgent leader Hissène Habré, who entered the government as prime minister.

During breakfast at dawn, Granger ( leader of the group of wandering intellectuals ) discusses the legendary phoenix and its endless cycle of long life, death in flames, and rebirth, adding that the phoenix must have some relation to mankind, which constantly repeats its mistakes, but that man has something the phoenix doesn't.

Under the erroneous impression that he needed papers from some left-wing organisation to cross the frontier, on John Strachey's recommendation he applied unsuccessfully to Harry Pollitt, leader of the British Communist Party.

According to some historians, he was the leader of the army who won the great Battle of Naissus, while the majority believes that the victory must be attributed to his successor Claudius II.

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

Though " president " and various monarchic titles are most commonly used for heads of state, in some nationalistic regimes ( usually republics ), the leader adopts, formally or de facto, a unique style simply meaning " leader " in the national language, such as Nazi Germany's single party chief and head of state and government, Adolf Hitler Führer ( see that article for equivalents ).

Count Zinzendorf, the Lutheran leader of the Moravian Church in the 18th century wrote some 2, 000 hymns.

On the first day of the tournament, a bout of individual jousting, a mysterious masked knight, identifying himself only as " Desdichado " ( which is described in the book as Spanish for the " Disinherited One ", though actually meaning " Unfortunate "), makes his appearance and manages to defeat some of the best Norman lances, including Bois-Guilbert, Maurice de Bracy, a leader of a group of " Free Companions " ( mercenary knights ), and the baron Reginald Front-de-Boeuf.

Modern views of Stalin in the Russian Federation and the world remain mixed, with some viewing him as a tyrant and mass murderer, others as a capable and necessary leader for the time.

He supported political activist and labor leader Thomas Mooney's defense fund, but was repelled by the behavior of some of Mooney's supporters at a rally.

Although some Muslims see Joshua as a prophet, others view him not as prophet but as a saintly man and great leader.

After the French party split into a reformist and revolutionary party, some accused Guesde ( leader of the latter ) of taking orders from Marx ; Marx remarked to Lafargue, " What is certain to me is if this is Marxism, then I myself am not Marxist " ( in a letter to Engels, Marx later accused Guesde of being a " Bakuninist ").

Chomsky's response to the film was mixed ; in a published conversation with Achbar and several activists, he stated that film simply doesn't communicate his message, leading people to believe that he is the leader of some movement that they should join.

In later Jewish messianic tradition and eschatology, a messiah is a leader anointed by God, and in some cases, a future King of Israel, physically descended from the Davidic line, who will rule the united tribes of Israel and herald the Messianic Age of global peace.

The leader and some others in the chain carry bouquets of flowers.

Smith returned to the theatre stage after some 20 years in August 2006, appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in Allegiance, Irish journalist and author Mary Kenny's play about Churchill's encounter with the Irish nationalist leader Michael Collins in 1921.

According to Cheong Seong-chang of Sejong Institute, speaking on June 25, 2012, there is some possibility that the new leader Kim Jong-un, who has greater visible interest in the welfare of his people and engages in greater interaction with them than his father did, will consider economic reforms and regularization of international relations.

There does not have to be a formal agreement for collusion to take place ( although for the act to be illegal there must be actual communication between companies )– for example, in some industries there may be an acknowledged market leader which informally sets prices to which other producers respond, known as price leadership.

According to Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer, spiritual leader of Temple Israel Community Center in Cliffside Park and former executive editor of Jewish Week, this leaves “ Orthodox ” as “ an umbrella term that designates a very widely disparate group of people very loosely tied together by some core beliefs .”