Sentence examples for distant leader from inspiring English sources

Imagine a distant leader killed more than 2,000 innocent people, and his military commanders responded to evidence that they were civilians by joking that the victims "were not the local men's glee club".

Mr. Hu, China's wooden and distant leader over the last decade, has left many Chinese more comfortable economically, but also more removed from a party and leadership that seem to have little to do with their lives.

An increasingly distant leader who is dogged by corruption cases, Mr. Zardari has come under attack from the powerful Pakistani establishment, an alliance of parts of the military and the news media, who want him gone.

He sought to help her to shed the image of a distant leader who only listens to those in her inner circle.

When Justin Trudeau's father, the former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, died in 2000, Harper wrote that he had been "a distant leader who neither understood, nor cared to understand, a group of people over whom his actions had immense impact".

You don't want them to think you're a distant leader.

Outraged by James and other local officials, freedpeople appealed in increasingly complex ways to distant leaders.

What united them was a distrust of distant leaders and institutions.

They invest their hopes in playing the numbers, not in distant leaders sowing lofty dreams of change.

During his incarceration, though, it fell to others, like Mr. Goniwe and his comrades, to bear aloft the twin torches of confrontation and resistance, feting their distant leaders in prison or in exile, and chanting the slogans and anthems that evoked such figures as Mr. Mandela and Oliver Tambo, then the exiled head of the A.N.C.

Socially distant leaders are ascribed charisma by exceptional organizational performance, visionary behavior, use of rhetoric, etc.