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Example sentences for "leaders"

Lexicographically close words:
leade; leaded; leaden; leader; leaderless; leadership; leades; leadest; leadeth; leadin
  1. These should be published and spread throughout the nation, so that at least the leaders among the people should become, to some degree, awakened, and arise to exert themselves along those lines which will lead to their abiding honour.

  2. They had been rival leaders always at the Grammar School, but the rivalry had never come to open battle until now.

  3. Prominent among their early leaders after they became distinct from the Methodists were William Romaine, Henry Venn and John Newton.

  4. Young Musgrave was also a boy at Harrow; and these two, equally bad, Musgrave in the scheming and John in the acting part of their juvenile scrapes, were the chosen leaders in every row.

  5. They then entered the 7th Hussars together, into which regiment L'Estrange exchanged; and the three young men soon became prime leaders in every folly and dissipation, then more common than now.

  6. Perhaps it would have been the part of wisdom to wait until the victory was assured, but the leaders thought it best to arouse enthusiasm to the highest pitch.

  7. The Coventry Waddells, who were really the leaders of fashionable society, were erecting a very handsome and picturesque mansion on Murray Hill, between Fifth and Sixth avenues on Thirty-eighth Street.

  8. Prague, the capital of Bohemia, had become a centre for leaders of the Czecho-Slovaks, Jugoslavs, and Poles in their agitation for independence.

  9. The British leaders then guided their patrol into this mad melee and took a hand.

  10. The population visited its wrath on the Jews, because some of the Bolshevist leaders are or are said to be Jews.

  11. In the closing months of 1917 this tendency was accentuated, when the Polish leaders came into closer alliance with the Czecho-Slovaks and Jugoslavs.

  12. The British leaders expected a trap, and waited to see what this unusual performance meant.

  13. Russia lacks great leaders with heroic characters, who know how to act in an hour of distress.

  14. This concession, the dispatch added, had been wrung from him by leaders of the German parties after a conference lasting six hours.

  15. Thus the Prussian leaders would harmonize modern thought with their ancient religion of physical strength through brutalizing Christianity.

  16. The vast audience contained the official representatives of all the allied powers and the United States, and the leaders of all political and social groups of Italy, with representatives from all the important cities.

  17. To make things worse, internal strife exercised its disintegrating influence; there was contention among the leaders in New France over the vexed question of the liquor traffic.

  18. Thus, but in vain, did the leaders of New France attempt to stay the progress of Indian debauchery.

  19. Our leaders have proclaimed the storming of the reactionaries!

  20. Last night, however, he checked with local party leaders and they decided that he'd acted too precipitately.

  21. Because you will be the leaders of the Dogon tomorrow, most like.

  22. Such the bold leaders of these lancers were, Which of the Brescian veterans did consist; Whose practised age might charge of armies bear, And claim some rank in Fame's eternal list.

  23. But everywhere the leaders and the led He temperately observed with a slow sight; Judged by their looks how hopes and fears were fed, And by their order their success in fight.

  24. For the most part, even its leaders had not previously taken any active part in the movement for woman's suffrage.

  25. The historian of the South African War points out, again and again, that the British leaders showed a singular lack of the fighting spirit.

  26. It is in this sense, indeed, that the voices of the greatest and most typical leaders of the woman's movement of emancipation to-day are heard.

  27. Even in Germany, the land of its origin, nearly all its old irreconcilable leaders are dead, and it is now slowly but steadily losing influence, to give place to a more modern and practical socialism.

  28. It will be noticed that a point with which Ellen Key and the leaders of the new German woman's movement specially concern themselves is the affectional needs of the "supernumerary" woman and the legitimation of her children.

  29. It is probably unnecessary to discuss the opinions of other leaders in this movement, though there are several, such as Frau Grete Meisel-Hess, whose views deserve study.

  30. Such a gathering has a dramatic interest as presenting the greatest leaders of industry, but about other tables might be gathered thousands of other less notable figures worthy to be accounted captains of industry in their several fields.

  31. More important still, the development of moderation, conservatism, and a less speculative spirit among the leaders of business will do much toward softening the asperity of these scourges of industry.

  32. This proposition to divide the plunder of monopoly has been viewed approvingly by some leaders of organized labor, but it does not look especially alluring to the general public, to which is assigned the humble part of paying the bill.

  33. The leaders make exaggerated claims; laborers believe them and pay their dues more readily; the public believes them and is the more inclined to pardon the excesses of so important an institution.

  34. When a heedless and over-confident army ventures into an enemy's country without a knowledge of its geography, without a map, and without leaders that have been tested on the field of battle, the result can easily be foreseen.

  35. Labor leaders have repeatedly asserted in recent years, when the two demands have been made together, that shorter hours were more desirable than increased wages.

  36. It was originated or elaborated by men such as Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, and Ferdinand Lasalle, as labor leaders and political agitators, who found a ready weapon in the bungling economic analysis of the time.

  37. Whenever the unions are charged with these acts, labor leaders either deny the facts or avoid giving a direct answer, but there is no doubt that the charge is true in many ways and in many cases.

  38. By following various suspects into the country, and noticing the time and way of their return, they became convinced that the leaders of the rebellion were somewhere near the lake.

  39. Truces were made, as in honorable war, and the leaders corresponded with one another as to terms of battle or surrender.

  40. The two leaders wheeled and rode slowly off to meet the Indians and soon a second parley was taking place.

  41. That evening the leaders of the divisions went among their followers and urged that in the morning every water cask and container available for holding water be filled.

  42. Armijo had not shown his hand openly and the new governor was one of the active leaders of the insurrection.

  43. But leaders of states just did not proceed so carelessly--not unless they were fools, or unless they were supremely confident in the ultimate outcome.

  44. The opposing leaders stared at each other without speaking.

  45. In New York it was proved that the leaders of the strikers sold out to employers, and accepted bribes to call off strikes.

  46. Think of the treatment which the leaders of the anti-slavery reform met with but a few years ago, and you see what a progress has been made!

  47. Certainly, their leaders did not take ground against it, never as against a modification of the tariff!

  48. The religionists, the sects, the sectarian leaders rejected him, condemned and slew him at the last, hanging his body on a tree.

  49. By the parties I mean the leaders thereof, the men that control the parties.

  50. It is with the flock of virtues, as with wild fowl--the leaders alternate.

  51. Yet ye leaders of the land, know this,--that the blood of thirty thousand men cries out of the ground against you.

  52. Almost before the men realized what had taken place, they found themselves marching along a dusty road with the air cool and the confidence of the leaders manifest in many ways that appealed to the boys in blue.

  53. There were shouts and calls from the leaders and loud and prolonged cheers from their willing followers.

  54. The leaders are always men of commanding influence and often of great intelligence.

  55. But I am not convinced that any party now called Socialist, or any group of avowedly Socialist leaders has as yet shown a safe and practicable plan for the realization of those ideals.

  56. But after their old and usual fashion, the leaders of both factions held them together—old Absalom Gannt and Chan Bullock and their respective attendants.

  57. The leaders studiously kept away from the young men all that fiery liquor which, would be certain to set them beyond control.

  58. Clay, yielding to the appeals of his party friends, reappeared in the Senate at the opening of Congress in December, 1831, and now the duel between the two great party leaders grew fiercer than ever.

  59. A notable exception was John Quincy Adams, who, distrusting the leaders of his own party, had gone over to the party of Jefferson.

  60. The Federalist leaders in New England were against the French, against President Madison, against the war.

  61. And of the two new leaders Jackson had by far the stronger hold on the popular mind and heart.

  62. Jackson and Clay were, in fact, the leaders of the two parties into which the old Republican party was now divided.

  63. As they again rode forward towards the Pyramids, one of the horsemen said to his fellows— “If our Pasha would give us leaders like that young Hassan, we would follow them to the last drop of our blood.

  64. The majority of the Athenian leaders advised that the Athenian fleet should retreat toward the south and west, to the isthmus of Corinth, and await the Persians there; because, if defeated, a safe retreat could be effected.

  65. It has often struck me that it is odd how few officers of either Artillery or Engineers have ever made a mark in the world out of their profession, or have come out as leaders in science, and this in the future is sure to be remedied.

  66. His test is one of patience till the bitter work is done, He must back his country's leaders till the victory is won.

  67. As a country, tried by sorrow, With a heritage of worth, We shall stand in that to-morrow With the leaders of the earth.


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