Sentence examples for a resolute leader from inspiring English sources

Mr. Medvedev devoted much of the interview to the decisions he made during the confrontation with Georgia, casting himself as a resolute leader who stood up to American pressure.

So the protagonist who emerged as Mr. Bush's library was formally dedicated on Thursday was a resolute leader who protected the nation after Sept. 11, 2001, raised education standards, pushed to overhaul the immigration system and brought peace to the war-torn nation of Sudan.

If you mess up, a resolute leader can iterate and fix.

Generally, the official pictures of Mr. Bush follow the White House's narrative line of a manly, resolute leader, like the photograph of the president clearing brush at his Texas ranch wearing a cowboy hat.

It's a portrait that stands in stark contrast to the laudatory one Mr. Woodward drew in "Bush at War," his 2002 book, which depicted the president — in terms that the White House press office itself has purveyed — as a judicious, resolute leader, blessed with the "vision thing" his father was accused of lacking and firmly in control of the ship of state.

Mr. Putin was described as "a fair and resolute leader worth of respect" by the author, who also wrote: "I am unsure at this point whether he has the potential to be our best friend or our worst enemy".

Despite the eagerness of Mr. Bush to portray himself as a forward-leaning, resolute leader, this volume sometimes has the effect of showing the former president as both oddly passive and strangely cavalier.

The president, who gave Mr. Woodward two lengthy interviews (including one with Mr. Balz for their series of Washington Post articles), is depicted in terms that the White House press office itself has purveyed -- as a fearless and resolute leader.

Michael Kohlhaas is a creaking, unyielding historical horse-opera that finds Mads Mikkelsen jutting his chin and staring endlessly into the middle distance as the resolute leader of a peasant revolt.

His trip there, and then to the Islamic Center of Washington, on Embassy Row less than two miles from the White House, seemed part of an emerging White House strategy of trying to portray Mr. Bush as a resolute wartime leader, a compassionate father figure, and an economic strategist.

If a resolute war leader had not unexpectedly come to power in Britain in May 1940, and the country had been defeated or (worse) made peace with Germany as much of the British elite wanted at the time, Europe would likely have remained under Nazi rule for generations to come – time in which plans of racial purification and genocide could have been more fully implemented.