She was the leader for most of the race, but she eventually finished second.
The leader fails to supervise subordinates applicably. The leader inconsistently recruits, trains, supports, or retains highly competent personnel.
She is the leader of an international organization devoted to the protection of natural resources.
The development of new electronic products has strengthened the company's position as the leader in digital technology.
His public persona is that of a strong, determined leader, but in private life he's very insecure.
In April 2017 O'Sullivan endorsed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in the upcoming UK General election.
The company has established itself as a leader in the industry.
The author castigated the prime minister as an ineffective leader.
The new leader has an air of gravitas that commands respect.
The company has become a leader in developing new technology.
Andrea Leadsom, who was energy minister and May's primary competitor for party leader, was made the new environment secretary.
The 1922 Committee is effectively head of the Parliamentary Party its leader forms policy in consultation with his cabinet and administration.
Cameron's relative youth and inexperience before becoming leader have invited satirical comparison with Tony Blair.
It had no single leader, and in the absence of one, the Independent Labour Party nominee Ramsay MacDonald was elected as Secretary.
After the election Ramsay MacDonald was voted the first official leader of the Labour Party.
It expelled MacDonald and made Henderson the leader of the main Labour party.
The only former Labour cabinet member who had retained his seat, the pacifist George Lansbury, accordingly became party leader.
Lansbury resigned as leader in 1935 after public disagreements over foreign policy.
He was promptly replaced as leader by his deputy, Clement Attlee, who would lead the party for two decades.
Foot resigned and was replaced as leader by Neil Kinnock, with Roy Hattersley as his deputy.
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This made Miliband the first Labour leader to have the authority to pick his own Shadow Cabinet.
Since resigning as Labour leader, Miliband has remained on the backbenches.
Consequently, Clegg resigned as leader and was replaced by Tim Farron, who was elected in the leadership election.
Ashdown retired as leader in 1999 and the party elected Charles Kennedy as his replacement.
Campbell resigned on 15 October 2007, and Vince Cable became acting leader until a leadership election could be held.
On 18 December 2007 Nick Clegg won the leadership election, becoming the party's fourth leader.
The group's current leader is the former Prime Minister of Belgium Guy Verhofstadt.
Several individuals, including Alliance Party leader David Ford, hold membership of both parties.
Led by Farage, the NEC removed Holmes from power, and Titford was elected leader.
In November, Farage's former deputy, Paul Nuttall, was elected leader and pledged to win votes away from Labour.
In September 2008, the party then elected its first leader, Caroline Lucas, with Adrian Ramsay elected deputy leader.
In the party's first election with Lucas as leader, it retained both its MEPs in the 2009 European elections.
In September, Natalie Bennett was elected party leader and Will Duckworth deputy leader in the leadership election took place.
Incumbent leader Natalie Bennett ran uncontested, and retained her status as party leader.
The election also saw a change in the elective format for position of deputy leader.
Amelia Womack and Shahrar Ali won the two positions, succeeding former deputy leader Will Duckworth.
The WGP leader is Pippa Bartolotti, and the Deputy Leader is Anthony Slaughter.
In January 2012 Simon Hughes, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, supported calls for a devolved English parliament.
Technicut is the UK's market leader in rotary cutting tools on the A6178 in Brightside.
Judaism was an active proselytising faith, and at least one Arab political leader converted to it.
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The sword is often erroneously supposed to commemorate the killing of Peasants' Revolt leader Wat Tyler by Lord Mayor of London William Walworth.
There were so many racial riots that summer in major cities of the United States that a black leader termed it Red Summer.
A vote to choose the new Basque leader, or lehendakari, is expected this week.
As of 2008, the United States is the leader in medical research, including pharmaceutical development.
A challenger brand is a brand in an industry where it is neither the market leader or a niche brand.
Progressive dances typically start with the leader and the follower facing and backing line of dance, respectively.
The Nationalist Party, with Simon Busuttil as its leader, is in opposition.
He was a popular leader in the first half of his reign, but became a crude and insane tyrant in his years controlling government.
There was no underlying administration or bureaucracy to maintain any gains beyond the lifetime of a leader.
When Jack came back late from lunch, the team leader really lowered the boom on him.
These include Weston's cider of Much Marcle, and Bulmer's cider, from Hereford, which produces the UK market leader Strongbow.
Today, this term also refers to the doctrines and practices of the Reformed churches of which Calvin was an early leader.
On Wesley's return, he became the leader of the group which increased somewhat in number and greatly in commitment.
Classes of a dozen or so society members under a leader met weekly for spiritual fellowship and guidance.
James Robinson Graves was an influential Baptist of the 19th century and the primary leader of this movement.
William Penn signed a peace treaty with Tammany, leader of the Delaware tribe, and other treaties followed between Quakers and Native Americans.
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale emerged as a leader of the Damdami Taksal in 1977 and promoted a more militant solution to the problem.
There is no central authority over the entire movement, nor any central religious text or religious leader.
Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb, also studied at Cambridge under Rutherford and Thomson.
It has supported the UK Labour Party in the past, including at the general election in 1992 when Neil Kinnock was Labour leader.
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He has the makings of a fine leader, and we, the nominating committee, are pleased to present him to the membership as our candidate.
He was seen as of divine descent, was the leader of the religious cult and was responsible for the fertility of the land and military victory.
Accordingly, the conversion of their leader had a strong impact on his people.
The Carol was a popular Norman dance in which the leader sang and was surrounded by a circle of dancers who replied with the same song.
Jacob Grimm was the first to suggest, very influentially, that Herne had once been thought of as the leader of the Wild Hunt, based on his title.
The full council of 72 elects a council leader, who in turn appoints up to 9 more councillors to form the executive cabinet.
She was the niece of the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and first cousin of the temperance leader Lady Henry Somerset.
The leader, called the shantyman, was appreciated for his piquant language, lyrical wit, and strong voice.
The United States had come to the fore as a maritime leader, especially due to the nation's design of packet ships.
Reed, the leader of the London Symphony Orchestra, who helped the composer with advice on technical points.
The leader of the first violin section, commonly called the concertmaster, also plays an important role in leading the musicians.
Where a solo part is called for in a string section, the section leader invariably plays that part.
Matt Lloyd is credited with inventing inline sledge hockey, and Great Britain is seen as the international leader in the game's development.
British Prime Minister John Major was the political leader most closely identified with promotion of sports.
This decision was made in honour of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian patriot who was the leader of the redshirts volunteers.
Championship leader Schumacher finished second with a gearbox fault restricting him to fifth gear, having led the early laps.
In 1974 he drove a works Yardley sponsored McLaren M23 and impressed, sometimes outpacing team leader Emerson Fittipaldi.
Real power was wielded by the leader of the German occupation authority, Reichskommissar Josef Terboven.
The intellectual leader of this era whose work was most influential for the rest of the century was also the most antihistorical.
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are the Arthur Daleys of British politics, according to the Conservative leader.
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A bluefaced shock troop leader staggered over to see what it might command.
To cap the feat, their leader made a breath-catching descent by what mountain men call a rappel, riding down a rope almost 400 feet.
The diplomat accused the other nation's leader of brinkmanship for refusing to redeploy the troops along their nations' shared border.
Rose was three seconds behind, but managed to catch up with the race leader and eventually won.
For he is also the political leader of the nation, or has it in his choice to be.
Now when God called him, Moses told God immediately that he could not speak clear enough to be this leader.
Margaret Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party, was Britain's first female Prime Minister.
As a leader of the free world the United States cuts an unconvincing figure with its racial segregation.
After the regime fell, the leader was executed and the prinicipal party members were denaturalized and deported.
Signor Papini, the leader of italian pragmatism, grows fairly dithyrambic over the view that it opens, of man's divinely-creative functions.
Conservative leader is a stress-tested Duracell bunny with the capacity to make any crisis seem reasonable, or so his friends say.
There was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden.
And in all of this medley of extemporania, Nixon could count on the faithful support of the minority leader of the House, Mr. Gerald Ford.
As the poison has gone out of the European wound, the Conservative Party should now be able to tolerate a Federast leader.
I liked to gob up two or three worms on a snelled hook, pinch three or four split shot onto the leader, and plunk it into the dark water.
The world leader in compact satellite systems, Surrey Satellites, is also part of Astrium.
In 853, the Vikings raided Anglesey, but in 856, Rhodri Mawr defeated and killed their leader, Gorm.
Much of this resulted in fixed settlements from which many, under a powerful leader, expanded outwards.
Sevcon, an international company formed from a part of Smith Electric, is a world leader in electric vehicle controls.
Parliament in this period came to be known as Grattan's Parliament, after the principal Irish leader of the period, Henry Grattan.
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Castlereagh played a central role at Vienna, along with Austrian leader Klemens von Metternich.
A new culture of dependency was emerging, in which citizens would look to any populist leader for relief.
The British leader sought refuge among the Brigantes, but their queen, Cartimandua, proved her loyalty by surrendering him to the Romans.
Goths attacked the emperor himself, but within a year Alaric was accepted as a leader of Theodosius's Gothic troops and this rebellion was over.
In 876 under their new leader, Guthrum, the Danes slipped past the Saxon army and attacked and occupied Wareham in Dorset.
Both the Danish leader Ivar and the Mercian leader Burgred died during this campaign.
He promptly awarded their elected leader, William Iron Arm, with the title of count in his capital of Melfi.
Bohemond was the de facto leader of the Crusade during its passage through Asia Minor.
Philip had come to power in 1180 and he rapidly demonstrated that he could be an assertive, calculating and manipulative political leader.
Our group leader proved highly ineffectual, caving to every whim put forth by the other members.
The leader of the French contingent, the Duke of Burgundy, however, was adamant that a direct attack on Jerusalem should be made.
Sir Edward Coke was a leader in using Magna Carta as a political tool during this period.
But the new leader, the Dauphin Charles, avoided another pitched battle, and the city of Reims withstood siege.
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, succeeded him as leader of the party seeking peace with France.
Their leader Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, by his victory became the first English monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
His political mantle passed to his son, Robert Cecil, who soon became the leader of the government.
On the one hand, the patriarchal discourse constructs the identity of 'an iron lady' for the successful woman leader.
Two days after the Japanese surrender in August 1945, Sukarno and fellow nationalist leader Hatta unilaterally declared Indonesian independence.
Cromwell's conduct in this battle proved decisive, and demonstrated his potential as both a political and an important military leader.
Those who still supported Charles' place on the throne, such as the army leader and moderate Fairfax, tried once more to negotiate with him.
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By 1649, the struggle had left the Royalists there in disarray and their erstwhile leader, the Marquess of Montrose, had gone into exile.
Government ministers and the leader of the Opposition and the Shadow Cabinet sit on the front rows, and are known as frontbenchers.
A jefe in this sense refers to a true boss, the leader of the household, also known as Jose Rico.
Joe Clark returned as leader, but the schism with the Reformers effectively watered down the combined Blue and Red Tory vote in Canada.
Albert Bore, leader of Birmingham City Council called on the government to change radically how local services are funded and provided.
Though his proposal failed, many reformers in Parliament came to regard him as their leader, instead of Charles James Fox.
These industrial regions transformed agrarian Prussia into an industrial leader in the nineteenth century.
Nelson was regarded as a highly effective leader, and someone who was able to sympathise with the needs of his men.
Despite his personality, he remained a highly professional leader and was driven all his life by a strong sense of duty.
Wellington was gradually superseded as leader of the Tories by Robert Peel, while the party evolved into the Conservatives.
Chamberlain found it impossible to continue to lead a National Government or to form a new coalition government with himself as leader.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, India's independence movement leader, led a peaceful resistance to the British rule.
The post of leader was recognised, and leaders typically chair several important committees, but had no special authority.
If no party has an absolute majority, the leader of the largest party is given the first opportunity to form a coalition.
This election result prompted the leader of the three main opposition parties to resign.
Also in the wake of the referendum, Scottish Labour leader, Johann Lamont, stood down and Jim Murphy was elected to replace her.
Murphy is not currently an MSP, the Labour group in the Scottish Parliament is led by their deputy leader in Scotland, Kezia Dugdale.
It is considered a rare privilege for a foreign leader to be allowed to address both houses in Westminster Hall.
Senior Labour shadow cabinet members, notably Ed Balls, Douglas Alexander, and Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy, were defeated.
Their leader, Peter Robinson, said that the DUP would talk first to whichever party wins the most seats.
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Churchill, the party leader, brought in a Party Chairman to modernise the creaking institution.
The period saw the decline of the UK as a prominent world leader, with the loss of practically the entire empire and a laggard economy.
John Major resigned as party leader after the Conservatives were defeated in a landslide and was succeeded by William Hague.
Valentine watches the bunch of amusers close around the politician, the leader already dipping into his pocket for the snuff to fling into the eyes of their victim.
Its leader, Nicola Sturgeon, is the current First Minister of Scotland.
Tony Blair had visited the religious leader several times at the mosque.
The campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq left him looking like the leader of a Blairist 'front' party as he backed the government on these and other issues.
What is there, I wonder, about the name Justin that gives its bearer the quality of leadership? Justin Morrill was a leader of men. Justin Morgan was a leader of horses.
Harold returned many of the Welsh princes their lands, so that after Harold's death at the Battle of Hastings, Wales was again divided without a leader to resist the Normans.
In it, the character Valentine is banished from Milan and driven out through the forest where he is approached by outlaws who, upon meeting him, desire him as their leader.
As we graduated from Brownies to Girl Scouts, Mom was again my leader.
From the moment he had become opposition leader following the defeat of Lindsay Thompson's government in 1982, Jeff Kennett had been viewed as a political larrikin.
Prominent Liberal Democrat MPs who lost their seats included former leader Charles Kennedy, former deputy leaders Vince Cable and Simon Hughes, and several cabinet ministers.
On 8 May 2015, Clegg announced his resignation as party leader.
Hamilton, along with championship leader Fernando Alonso, retired from the Belgian Grand Prix after being involved in a multiple car accident on the first corner of the race.
Men like him couldn't get elected dogcatcher. He was a natural lieutenant, not a leader, and it was a fact he accepted with neither bitterness nor regret.
He sounds like a cult leader about to demand his followers drink poison. And it frankly doesn't help that he looks like Jim Jones to a genuinely creepy degree.
Luke Foley, NSW Labor leader, led his party's opposition to the ban.
So, even in its agricultural aspects, it was more than a dairyland. And it was more than a food-and-beverage state. It was a leader in the science of nutrition.
In practice, this means that the leader of the political party with an absolute majority of seats in the House of Commons is chosen to be the Prime Minister.
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Governed by its leader and National Executive Committee, UKIP is divided into twelve regional groups, with an additional one representing Gibraltar.
In attaching this dobber or float, tie it on as short a tippet as you can manage and attach it to the leader from four to six feet above the nymph.
A shrewd and calculating leader, Teach spurned the use of force, relying instead on his fearsome image to elicit the response he desired from those he robbed.
In 2002, the former Conservative MP Roger Knapman was elected UKIP leader, bringing with him the experience of mainstream politics that the party had lacked.
John Knox is regarded as the leader of the Scottish Reformation.
Amongst early favourable responses, Huxley's reviews swiped at Richard Owen, leader of the scientific establishment Huxley was trying to overthrow.
The Labour Party was defeated in a landslide in the 1983 general election, and Michael Foot was replaced shortly thereafter by Neil Kinnock as party leader.
The Conservative party, headed by the prime minister David Cameron, won 98 more seats than the Labour Party, whose leader Ed Miliband subsequently stood down.
After Coburn won the seat, he was appointed leader of UKIP Scotland.
In 1993, future party leader and MP Caroline Lucas gained a seat on Oxfordshire County Council, with other gains following in the 1995 and 1996 local elections.
Carwyn Jones has been First Minister and leader of Welsh Labour since Rhodri Morgan retired from office in December 2009, after nine years and ten months as First Minister.
Richard met Wat Tyler again the next day at Smithfield and reiterated that the demands would be met, but the rebel leader was not convinced of the king's sincerity.
A main element uniting Germanic societies was kingship, in origin a sacral institution combining the functions of military leader, high priest, lawmaker and judge.
Around 1577, Semyon Stroganov and other sons of Anikey Stroganov hired a Cossack leader called Yermak to protect their lands from the attacks of Siberian Khan Kuchum.
Ed Miliband subsequently tendered his resignation as Labour leader.
The people of Edinburgh demonstrated against the treaty, and their apparent leader in opposition to the Unionists, was James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton.
In response to Labour's poor performance in Scotland, Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy initially resisted calls for his resignation by other senior party members.
The party's leader, Theresa May, is currently serving as Prime Minister.
The Asquith government proved ineffective but when David Lloyd George replaced him in December 1916 Britain gained a powerful and successful wartime leader.
According to team leader Vince Gaffney, this discovery may provide a direct link between the rituals and astronomical events to activities within the Cursus at Stonehenge.
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Mike Whitby, leader of the council from 2004 at one stage spoke in favour of an underground railway, which he claimed would be faster and much cheaper to operate.
In 1946 Beveridge was raised to the peerage as Baron Beveridge, of Tuggal in the County of Northumberland, and eventually became leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords.
City of York Council operates on a leader and Cabinet style of governance.
In 391 Alaric, a Gothic leader, rebelled against Roman control.
Political leaders like Prime Minister Tony Blair, Conservative leader Michael Howard and Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy also sent their congratulations.
Androutsos, having won over Trelawny to his cause, was now anxious to win the real prize by persuading Byron to put his wealth behind his claim to be the leader of Greece.
The principal trombone is considered the leader of the low brass section, while the principal trumpet is generally considered the leader of the entire brass section.
Alfred and the Viking leader Guthrum agreed on a division that gave Alfred western Mercia, while eastern Mercia was incorporated into Viking East Anglia.
Despite an initial boost shortly after David Cameron's election as leader in December 2005, membership resumed its decline in 2006 to a lower level than when he was elected.
Pancras, where leader Natalie Bennett is standing as the candidate.
The Conservative Party leadership election was scheduled for 9 September and the new leader was expected to be in place by the autumn conference, set to begin on 2 October.
Although the person of the king as a leader could be exalted, the office of kingship was not in any sense as powerful or as invested with authority as it was to become.
The power struggle to establish Kim Il Sung as the sole leader in North Korea took almost a decade, entailing a series of bitter factional infights.
Jeremy Corbyn, current Labour leader, has stated that he would remove tuition fees and instead fund higher education by increasing National Insurance and Corporation Tax.
Baldwin rose rapidly, becoming a leader in Bath's architectural history.
Director of the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom since 1967, Mrs. Krug was a national leader in several legal cases that rose to the Supreme Court.
Rolawn at the Laveracks Ind Est on the B1228 in Elvington is Europe's largest producer of lawn turf, with its Medallion brand being the UK market leader.
Directed by Henry's queen, the powerful and aggressive Margaret of Anjou, who emerged as the de facto leader of the Lancastrians, Richard was forced out of court.
Some of the techniques have been imported from the United States, but Britain's tight political and media village is now the European market leader in this kind of McPolitics.
The largest is now The O2 Arena in London with a capacity of over 20,000, surpassing the former leader, the Manchester Evening News Arena in Manchester.
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The group rapidly gained popularity amongst Anglican intellectuals, including Vera Brittain, Evelyn Underhill and former British political leader George Lansbury.
However, the Conservatives themselves had undergone a dramatic change in the change of leader from Thatcher to Major, at least in terms of style if not substance.
Kinnock then resigned as leader and was replaced by John Smith.
Henceforth the leader of the party chose the Shadow Cabinet members.
The day after the 7 May 2015 election, Miliband resigned as party leader.
After Labour was defeated in the 2010 general election, Brown resigned as leader and in September 2010, Miliband was elected Leader of the Labour Party.
Questions must relate to the responding minister's official government activities, not to his or her activities as a party leader or as a private Member of Parliament.
When Richard rode out to meet with Wat Tyler, the rebel leader, a crowd broke into the castle without meeting resistance and looted the Jewel House.
Over 500 banks have offices in the City, and the City is an established leader in trading in Eurobonds, foreign exchange, energy futures and global insurance.
He has also spoken positively of his two immediate predecessors as Labour leader, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, praising their leadership and records in government.
Frederick the Great, the king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786, saw himself as a leader of the Enlightenment and patronized philosophers and scientists at his court in Berlin.

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