Sentence examples for instead of leadership from inspiring English sources

Instead of leadership we have indecision, gutlessness and broken election promises.

For much of his premiership, Mr Brown has offered cynical manoeuvres instead of leadership.

Germany's environment minister, for instance, dubbed it "losership instead of leadership".

After the assassination, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali resigned, saying the government had "disappointed" Tunisians with squabbling instead of leadership.

Instead of leadership, we got opportunism, and now that the country's ignorance of the diversity in the Arab world has been indemnified, how can we expect Americans to understand the promises of progression that lie in the Dubai ports deal?

Instead of leadership and clarity of convictions, the U.S. has started a race to the bottom of the diplomatic barrel.

In the book, Jones describes managing up as a series of behaviors that are much like any other form of leadership, but instead of leading subordinates, you are doing your best to eliminate obstacles placed in front of you by those who are higher up.

This changed with the last two of his four books on George W. Bush's administration, "The War Within" and "State of Denial," in which he came to the conclusion that President Bush had "displayed impatience, bravado and unsettling personal certainty about his decisions" instead of real leadership.

After 9/11, instead of providing leadership, President Bush cultivated ignorance and stereotyping by waging war on a Mideast country with no known ties to 9/11, knowing that the American people would be gullible to this sleight of hand in their moment of grief and fear.

"Instead of showing leadership and working together, the education secretary and home secretary chose to let rip at each other in public, making it harder to get the joint sensible working that we need," she said.

We are fighting against bullying instead of real leadership".