"I'm not a leader who wants to impose leadership lines all the time.
At Brighton, he did not manage to impose leadership lines on his frontbenchers any of the time.
He promised a cleaning of the governmental stables, vowing to sweep out "unqualified cronies," stamp out "pay-to-play politics" and impose leadership on a leaderless statehouse.
He is currently making a virtue of his minority status within his own shadow cabinet by saying: "I am not a leader who wants to impose leadership lines all the time".
What he said: "I am not a leader who wants to impose leadership lines all the time" What he meant: I tried imposing my view on Trident, but Unite voted it down, so I had better pretend the new politics is all about open and listening leadership... until I can bring in new rules to give the supporters who voted for me the power over policy.
"An empire imposes, but leadership creates support, and what America must strive for is leadership," said Karl Kaiser, the former head of the German Council on Foreign Relations and now a visiting scholar at Harvard.
Waddington did not, in fact, attempt to impose his leadership on the government.
It shouldn't be like the Communist Party imposes its leadership over other parties.
In the struggle for power that followed the fall of the tyranny, Cleisthenes failed to impose his leadership, and in 508 Isagoras, the leader of the more reactionary nobles, was elected chief archon.
This, he intimated, was but the first step to impose a leadership that would give up Palestinians' aspirations to self-determination, national sovereignty and a right of refugees' return.
