In exchange, Shapiro handed the ultra orthodox leader of Israel s Shas party an invitation to the White House.

The gaunt, gentlemanly Mazowiecki had served as an adviser to Lech Wałęsa, the leader of the Solidarity movement.

Xi s early focus on Sino Indian relations is unusual for a Chinese leader.

With his white mother and his African father, he does not fit any African American precedent.

Other staff members of the same al Ittihad leader are computer engineers located in Mogadishu, who are responsible for encrypting his communications.

Stalin s ghost is no substitute for a real live leader he will never leap out of his portraits, no matter how often they are waved.

Most notorious among these recidivists is Abu Sufyan Al Shihri, now Deputy Leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

In the film, Adams plays Peggy Dodd, the ruthless and manipulative wife of a religious organization leader played by Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Under the dual leadership system, each local Bureau or office is under the coequal authority of the local leader and the leader of the corresponding office, bureau or ministry at the next higher level.

Because the kind of choice you might want to give to a leader, a choice like giving the president the choice to raise prices on electricity, takes away a choice that people in the economy want.

Zhao s persecution was the persecution of a leader who dedicated himself for over a decade to groundbreaking efforts that became the foundations of China s economic reform.

Abdolhamid Rigi () (also spelt Abdul hamid Rigi or Abdulhamid Rigi ) (c. 1979 May 24, 2010) was the elder brother of the detained leader of Jundallah, Abdolmalek Rigi.

It is time, therefore, for India to consider introducing a presidential system of government, which would reduce the scope for horse trading and allow the country s leader to select competent people for cabinet positions.

In France, President Jacques Chirac, the epitome of a leader captured by his lobbies, is staggering impotently toward the end of his term in 2007.

Al Gore s Nobel Peace Prize is a fitting tribute to a world leader who has been prescient, bold, and skillful in alerting the world to the dangers of manmade climate change.

Along with a series of armed assaults on the Georgian population, there are attempts to bring the ongoing ethnic cleansing within the so called legal framework, to which attest the scandalous statements of S. Bagapsh, leader of the Abkhazian separatist regime.

Unsurprisingly, when set on this path, it also became the chosen refuge of Osama bin Laden and of the Taliban leadership that fled Afghanistan after the US led invasion.

Iranian leaders, including the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, recently expressed their condolences to Hezbullah's chief Hassan Nasrallah, after the killing of Imad Mughniyeh, one of the militant group's top commanders, hailing him as a great man .

The nationality issue first came to a head over the status of Alassane Ouattara, the Muslim opposition leader and talented technocrat whom Bedie barred from running in the 1995 presidential election on account of his foreign ancestry.

Later, the expression was used by F. G. Bailey, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, in his 1959 book Politics and Social Change , to refer to the electoral influence of the caste leader.

Xi s early focus on Sino Indian relations is unusual for a Chinese leader. He enunciated a five point platform, rather like Jawaharlal Nehru s five principles of peaceful coexistence, implemented in the two countries Panchsheel Treaty of 1954.

Though his memoirs paint a characteristic portrait of a leader who knew what he was doing, research for my new biography shows that his policy towards the crisis across the Mediterranean combined hope and frustration.

But, on a recent trip to Israel, White House adviser Dan Shapiro is said to have been reassured that the Israelis will not embarrass their American friends. In exchange, Shapiro handed the ultra orthodox leader of Israel s Shas party an invitation to the White House.