Clever leaders (I'm thinking of Jacques Chirac) often have a habit of pouncing on minor issues and pushing them at all costs, even to the detriment of their real interests.
And what could Martin Smyth, a politician who gives every impression of not knowing how or when his sentences will finish, offer that Trimble, the cleverest leader Unionism has produced, can not?
"A clever union leader would have held back".
To finesse the blow clever union leaders try, as in New York state, to direct all cuts to future union members, thereby leaving untouched the wage and pension package for current employees and pensioners.
Anpilov, unlike other, cleverer Party leaders, did not bother to hide his anti-Semitism, and his followers often carried signs like "Save Russia, Destroy the Yids!" "What's with the map?" I asked.
To Bush, like Chomsky, Bush is a clever and brilliant leader full of subtle and cunning schemes to manipulate events inside Iran.
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She had many of the features that Swedes tend to admire in their leaders: clever, but unassuming, and full of opinions about how other countries should behave.
There she had formed a strong friendship with Cardinal Decio Azzolino, a clever, charming, prudent man, leader of a group of cardinals active in church politics.
Does he think he'll get a green light from Tom Daschle, the clever, potent Senate majority leader who de-pom-pommed Mississippi cheerleader Trent Lott?
