Sentence examples for distant leadership from inspiring English sources

All they need do is glance over the game plan of the Coalition after that last, distant leadership spill in 2009 and follow suit.

Since then, the charismatic Mr. Zuma has cast himself as the victim of a government-led vendetta, while a party rebellion against Mr. Mbeki's more distant leadership has sent Mr. Mbeki's fortunes into decline.

Climate antecedents included dispatcher (distant) leadership and driver work ownership, two contextual attributes of lone work, whereas its proximal consequence included driving safety.

Results supported the hypothesized model, indicating that distant leadership style and work ownership promote psychological safety climate perceptions, with subsequent prediction of hard-braking events mediated by driving safety.

He acknowledges that his style did not inspire confidence, particularly in comparison with the distant, imperious leadership of George Mitchell.

Leadership was distant and disconnected.

Having gone from clear favourite for the Labour leadership to distant runner-up, Burnham has had to rethink his political ambitions even more radically than he had to rethink his political positions during his campaign.

They see themselves as the true voice of a party that is muffled or even gagged by the coalition, and a leadership too distant from its grassroots.

Liberated from the Soviet grip, the Czechs could rely on the legacy of not-so-distant freedoms, the moral leadership of Václav Havel, and many other particulars that augured well for them.

In July 1965, Powell came a distant third in the Conservative party leadership contest.

After nearly eight years of Benedict's intellectual, distant and increasingly brow-beaten leadership, the world has watched agog as his genial, wise-cracking successor pursues his mission to bring the church back down to earth and push its pastoral mission out to the fringes of society.