Sentence examples similar to first rate leader from inspiring English sources
Had Peter ever needed to take up paid employment, he would have made a first-rate leader writer for a broadsheet.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called Mr. Walder "a first-rate leader with big ideas" who had "made significant improvements to the customer experience," and said that Mr. Walder's departure was "a real loss for New York City, the metropolitan region, the state and the country".
Granted, Japan's ethic of uncomplaining perseverance — gaman, in Japanese — may also explain why the country settles for third-rate leaders.
GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE) has built its reputation as the world's leading conglomerate on two pillars: its ability to meet or beat analysts' expectations every quarter, come rain or shine, and its ability to produce first-rate leaders.
Marlborough, Repton (where the former archbishop Geoffrey Fisher was a headmaster), Rugby (home of the "Christian gentleman" and Harry Flashman) – all these ghastly Victorian foundations produce strapping men who'd make first-rate leaders of cannon fodder in the trenches, but in later life they treat their own feelings with brutal disdain, much as they'd handle servants demanding a wage rise.
Creating an Urban Development Corporation, initially against the wishes of local politicians, Mr Heseltine worked effectively with a series of first-rate leaders, officers and Labour politicians, a combination which helped turn a national political tide of non-co-operation with the Tories into models for rebuilding cities and industrial areas after the global manufacturing changes of the 1980s.
