Sentence examples for bruised leader from inspiring English sources

Though Mr. Karzai won another five-year term last August, he emerged as a badly bruised leader.

Warren Clarke is a bruising and bruised leader, gravel in his throat and marbles in his mouth, and in a fine cast Jeremy Clyde is particularly convincing as a bloodless Lord Halifax.

Since coming to office, Mr Aso has adopted a more adversarial tone towards its bruising leader, Ichiro Ozawa, than did his two predecessors.It had been assumed that Mr Aso this week would call a snap election for early November, something both Mr Ozawa and the LDP's junior coalition partner, New Komeito, want.

And Republican leaders, bruised by past experience with a president who has rarely offered them consistent cover on a politically challenging issue, are loath to guess at his intentions.

Allen Iverson, the team's leader, had bruised his tailbone in a previous series and was clearly hurt for this one.

I also had a fondness for the deeply cowardly and almost permanently bruised and battered Ben Linus, leader of The Others in Lost, before the series disappeared up its own backside.

Too many social change leaders are bruised.

But his bruising experience as leader of the Conservative Party from 1997 to 2001 added a sense of gravitas to his public persona.

Nash May Not Play Rick Nash of Columbus, the N.H.L.'s goal-scoring leader, has a bruised left foot and will decide this week if he can play in this weekend's All-Star Game.

Washington appeared to side with the Afghan leaders, causing some bruised transatlantic feelings.

It is clear that Iran's theocratic leaders were badly bruised by both the Green movement uprising after the 2009 presidential election – when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest against the official results, which they believed had been rigged – and the violence required to contain it.