The phrase "a former leading" is not correct in standard written English.
It is likely intended to describe someone who previously held a prominent or leading position, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "She was a former leading figure in the organization before her retirement."
Alternatives: "a former prominent" or "a previous leader".
But Mr. Cuccinelli has fallen far behind his rival, a former leading Democratic fund-raiser, on the financial front.
The program also includes Jos?im? rich "Mazurka," restaged by Sarah Stackhouse, a former leading Lim?ancer.
Frank Liotti, who plays a former leading cat-man in "Cats Talk Back," was on a cellphone.
"Pretty much what I know on court, I owe to her," Djokovic said of Gencic, a former leading tennis player and a member of Yugoslavia's team handball squad.
"Pretty much what I know on court, I owe to her," Djokovic said of Gencic, a former leading tennis player and member of Yugoslavia's team handball squad.
If it can be done for Adelaide, it can be done for Sydney," says David Leitch, a former leading energy analyst who runs energy industry consultancy ITK.
Hutchinson's letters, written between 1767 and 1769 to Thomas Whately, a retired former leading member of the British government, included the observation that it was impossible for colonists to have the full rights they would have in the home country, essentially requiring an "abridgement of what are called English liberties".
Gilbert, a voluble Californian and former leading player, helped Agassi rise to the No. 1 world ranking for the first time in 1995, then helped him rescale the summit after he had dropped to No. 141 in 1997.
Also, patients who sustain a hospital acquired condition may have subsequent repeat hospital admissions where their prior hospital acquired condition may be either documented as a new occurrence or not documented at all, with the former leading to a possibly inflated estimate.
But a visit with the three former leading Joffrey dancers who have served as ballet masters in the last two or three years does much to explain why the company's 32 dancers now look so stylish and technically strong.
where α i is the ith row of A. In practice, the value of the pair (p,q) is usually chosen as (1,2) or (0,∞), the former leading to a convex norm, while the latter actually counts the number of nonzero rows.
